With another season in the books and another year we fail to life the premiership trophy, I know we won't be winning it in the 2-3 years but is there anything to look forward to that can gives us some hope? Young kids coming through promising through any good?
Shame 09 lost to cheats and 22 ran in to a once in a generation team who were at their peak.
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That is it Nitram, your last part. Could we make a GF? Of course we can. Likely? More so not, but anyone can make the GF, that is the beauty of the sport. At least with the appointment of Mike Rush and the supposed chasing of Peter O'Sullivan, this board are going outside the box to fix the admin side of the club. That is a start.
I hope we end it soon! Parramatta would be buzzing like crazy if that happens!
See here is the thing with us compared to Newcastle this week. Everyone and their dog, who weren't Easts fans, wanted Newcastle to win. Oddly enough i wanted Easts to win, but vast majority went for Newcastle as it was a good story.
If we made the GF this year, we would have gotten hardly any support from neutral NRL fans. We are a hated club. In 2022, i actually had peers of mine instead of saying "Good luck, hope they do well for you" they said "We want Penrith to win cause if Parra win, we cannot make jokes anymore". So though we would get a crowd like Newcastle, we would sell a lot of merch like Newcastle, pretty much all the stuff, minus the house painting, we would do the same as Newcastle fans wise. Oh and seeing them off on the bus as they are a Sydney team. But yet we won't be the story. Our drought is a joke to people and they want it to continue. The drought for everyone else is a story.
So buzzing yes as we have a massive and loyal fan base, Commbank will be filled to the brim. But there will be a lot of sorrow for those who wanted us to lose. Even better.
The Eels have struggled to build momentum showing yearly improvement. They have struggled to build a squad that comes close to a premiership and then improve small parts of the squad. The current roster is much closer to be considered no chance of winning the premiership than it is to be considered a chance. With the NRL aiming for a 20 team competition within the next 4 or 5 years, winning the premiership will only become more difficult. The Eels currently are not even close to being in a premiership window, so predicting when the Eels next win a premiership is nothing more than a guess. It's not something I can see in the near future.
Slippery who knows honestly. In sport a team can click and win everything out of nowhere. Look at Penrith in 2002, they were rubbish. 2003 minor premiership and premiers. Wests Tigers rubbish in 04', win comp following year. Not saying that is us, but just never know.
20 teams can make it harder, but only harder if those teams are great from the start. Perth i feel wont be. PNG the jury is out only due to the unknown of conditions, but they have a squad that can perhaps challenge the 8. So yes and no 20 teams can hurt everyone else's chances.
But you just never know if a team will do well or bad. Anything can happen.
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