So we’ve all seen that finally we have a deal in place with Parramatta Stadium that at least guarantees eight games per year at Parramatta Stadium. However, as Cagey pointed out in another blog, the question is what about the other home games we’re g
Ray, you missed it by this much. I refer to the Sydney Morning Herald article: “Price lashes out at former Eels pack mate as tensions over club poll rise”. Close, but no cigar.
It’s not about ParraFirst getting our hands on the NRL club. What it's ab
Read more…This thread will be used to publish ParraFirst endorsements. Let's kick off with the one and only Mick Cronin.
Mick Cronin
Parramatta Eels Legend, Australian and NSW centre
Winner of four premierships playing for the Eels
“I fully support Steve Sh
Over the rest of the week, ParraFirst will be announcing a number of very real, achievable strategies that we believe can be applied at a District Football club level to improve grassroots Rugby League in the area. Here's the first of those, we've ju
Read more…ParraFirst story in Sports Business Insider
http://sportsbusinessinsider.com.au/news/former-eels-player-steve-sharp-makes-play-for-control-of-parramatta-nrl-club-board/
A three-time Premiership winner with the Parramatta Eels, Steve Sharp enjoyed mor
Read more…I just wanted to let everyone know that the underlying platform for 1Eyed Eel has just introduced IP address monitoring and banning.
This has a couple of implications. Firstly, I'll be able to identify if your using multiple profiles. Secondly, if yo
Read more…Today, we officially launch the ParraFirst ticket, of which we are putting forward six candidates seeking election to the Parramatta District Rugby League Club board. We have a web presence at www.parrafirst.com and various social media presences at
Read more…Ricky Stuart is considering cycling the captaincy between some of the club’s senior players in the hope that one of them will step up and convince him that they are the player to lead the club into its next era.
Stuart said at this stage he didn’t se
Read more…The only way is up. That was the message from both the club’s new CEO and coach as they addressed a small group of “influential supporters” about the club’s ambitions, particularly in relation to its membership plans.
The invite arrived just two days
Read more…Since coming on board, Ken Edwards has been telling us that we have 12,000 members. I've found this surprising based on a couple of notes. Firstly, since our 2010 season, it has been pretty obvious that there have been decreasing membership figures a
Read more…I mentioned this in another post, but I thought it deserved its own blog.
For whatever was lost during the Stephen Kearney era, I think we'll look back and say at least we got Peter Nolan out of the deal.
I've been pretty vocal that I have a big opin
Read more…So yes, I am running for the football club board at the upcoming election (Dec 8).
For the last couple of months, I’ve been contributing to an alternative ticket to the current Football board that we’re calling ParraFirst (yes, unfortunate clash with
Read more…So Crow has kindly put his hand up to step up as a moderator, particularly through the election period, and I've taken him up on the offer.
It's really important to me that this incredibly community isn't negatively impacted by my decision to run fo
Read more…A key point that came out of my blog this week on the club embracing future business models, that until we get our core branding right, it's difficult for us to really promote ourselves as an attractive marketing proposition.
So I was wondering what
Read more…Look, I'm already missing the footy, it's raining and my brain needs something to do. So I thought it might be fun to come up with your most left-field gameplan which you think nobody could possible have thought of, but just might work. Here's mine.
Read more…You might have noticed I've had a couple of weeks away from the site having enjoyed a big week of 40th birthday celebrations and a nice week-long family holiday. However, before that there were a couple of discussions I was in the middle of, surround
Read more…I think I've written the words "performance-based culture" a thousand times on this site over the many years I've been writing blogs and comments here. It's always been my view that you will never achieve sustainable success until you manage to put i
Read more…When I walked into my office this morning, people simply looked at me with sympathetic eyes and avoided asking me about my weekend. None of my friends over the past week sent me teasing emails or text messages crowing about the fact my side won the w
Read more…Today the club is going to announce a new sponsor. It has lined up our newest employee Luke Burt as well as Ricky Stuart to be on hand at the sponsor announcement. What the coach or our Welfare and Player Education Officer have to do with announcing
Read more…I carry around this philosophy I call the "ticket to enter". Ridiculously enough, I developed this in selecting my Melbourne Cup picks, so I'll explain how it works in that context.
I used to bet pretty seriously as a young adult. My bedroom was a se
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