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2016 - the year to go all in?

This blogs stems from other thoughts I posted on the Jennings blog, and it is increasingly looking like that 2016 is really going to present an unprecedented opportunity for Parramatta to have a title tilt.

If you add Jennings to our roster, we have

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Morgs to be in his element

I always think one of the misunderstood elements of Rugby League is that the way game changes, and the patterns and structures that are used, actually have a far bigger influence on the success of individual players. And I'm going to use Ryan Morgan

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Props and the interchange rule

I keep reading people saying how the new interchange laws will make a player like Junior less valuable but I don't think that's going to be the case at all.

To my mind, the changes have the biggest impact on your edge second rowers. Edge second-rower

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4000 Members

As of today, 1Eyed Eel passed the 4000 member mark.

Well, it's actually 4005 now as I foolishly held off approving people so I could make a big deal of number 4000 and then every time I went to approve the 4000 someone left the site and that person b

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Off-season guidelines

So over the past few days there has been some comments made about the site and our policy of what content goes into the main blogs

Firstly, I want to make this plain and simple. If you don't like the policies of this website, you have two options:

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Sign or save?

Parramatta has a massive 22 players off contract at the end of next year, well more than any other club. Ordinarily, that would leave you in a position of being able to pick and choose any of the players you really wanted to keep and forsaking those

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Coterie Update - Meeting Nov 18

Hi everyone,

I thought you all might be interested in an update on where the coterie is at.

Firstly, in case you missed it when posted previously, our first meeting is on November 18th at Vikings Sports Club, where we will formalise the organisation.

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NRL TPA review

Interesting article in the Herald about the TPA system, given our Coterie efforts.

Former Melbourne Storm boss Mark Evans is halfway through his review of the NRL's third party payments.

Evans has met with some clubs as the NRL explore the prospect

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NSWRL Grand Finals

Congrats to Wenty winning Sydney Shield and nice to see my former coaching coordinator Keehan Diamond having a big game. And then a big congrats to former Eels coach Chris Hutchinson who completed a dominant year to win the Ron Massey Cup with Mounti

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Eels Grassroots Blog

One of the areas of our club I'm very passionate about is our local junior clubs and I thought I'd start a blog to share some of the work the club does at a grassroots level and also the fantastic work of the volunteers that make all of our junior fo

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Cumberland burns on Foxsports

Foxsports is producing a piece on the burning of Cumberland Oval after the 81 grand final and the producer has contacted me to ask if anyone might happen to have recorded any news footage or any video of what Cumberland Oval was like back then? On th

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