The Mighty Cumberland Black Comes to Sydney

The dog, regarded by many as the Black Caviar of greyhound racing, will have his first start in Sydney on Saturday.

Many of you will remember that a group of us 1Eyed Eel members got involved with a greyhound syndication and we've been watching our b

A dozen questions that will shape the Eels in 2014

I would be surprised if any NRL side has ever gone into a new season with so many questions and uncertainty surrounding their club and their roster. Even picking a 17 is difficult, never mind having any degree of confidence in how that 17 will perfor

Who do you think will be our fastest players?

We've got a bit of talent in our backliner, but we're still not dripping with any real electric pace.

Got me thinking who might be our fastest five players in the club and in what order (let's say over 25m).

Hunt, Hayne, Sio, Morgan, Hopoate?

Official Membership Blog

I thought it might be good to start a blog on club membership.

Here is the membership portal:

https://nrl.secure.force.com/nrleels/showPackageToAnonymous?clubId=104

If you've got any questions or whatever, whack them here, and I'll see if I can get

Eels looking to appoint NRL's first Chief Medical Officer

I don't think anyone has noted this story, which appeared in The Australian last Friday.

Which of our graduating class will be staying on?

A few of our NYC boys will have now graduated into seniors. Anyone know which ones the club have picked up on second tier contracts?

I'm assuming Junior Paulo, Vai Toutai and Joseph Uaisele all are under contract given their involvement in first grad

How Arthur got the job: Blow by blow.

In the end, Parramatta’s coaching decision came down to whether it was more committed to its desired model of installing a football manager or if it really, really wanted Jason Taylor.

The general manager of football decision appears to have been ma

Jarryd Hayne a priority for new Parramatta Eels coach Brad Arthur: SMH

Interesing article in the SMH, which has a bit of cross-over with the article I posted earlier tonight. However, also interesting stuff about Arthur's take on a couple of our players which I thought it would be worth focusing on as a separate blog.

Now for the Assistant Coaches

I think we pay far too much attention to the head guy. Whether it be your Chairman, CEO or head coach. What's more important is the team as an entity. Just like having a star player in your side, who doesn't have the right players along side them, to

We are Parramatta. Again.

You may agree or you may with the appointments of Brad Arthur and Daniel Anderson. However, what is undeniable is that our club is now in a position to get back in touch with the essence of Parramatta.

Anderson and Arthurs are both Parra boys. Throu

1Eyed Eel Christmas Party 2013

So it's time to organise our annual get together. As usual we'll make it at the Firehouse - I'm thinking Sat 26th October.

It's always nice to put a face to the names you read here every day, and we've of course had a lot of new members join over the

Update on moderation and other site matters

This turned into a big long post, so to summarise:

i) Given my time limitations at the moment, I have formed a moderators panel who now have the ability to suspend members

ii) Please keep site-related content to the Site Matters group. Our moderators

Well done Wenty

Very proud of my Wenty Magpies JRLC, who have been named a finalist in the NRL's 2013 Service to the Community Award for the their TRYTIME program.

For those that don't know, Trytime is a program to get special needs kids with autism and similar disa

Matt Parish never in the race

Having read the story at Canberra's players wanting the assistant coach to take the job, you almost always see that when a coach leaves. Generally the assistant coach has a very good reputation with the players, as quite often they play the good guy

Don't hire any coach... yet

I haven’t said a lot on our post-Ricky coaching situation. To be honest, I feel like I’d be throwing out just another unqualified opinion. Is Neil Henry a good coach. JT? How do I really know whether one is better than the other, without talking with

Eels Presentation Award Winners

Blue and Gold Army Member Award: Tim Mannah

Ray Price NRL Community Awards - Tim Mannah

Brett Kenny NYC Coaches Awards - Will Bugden

Steve Ella NYC Player's Player Award - Joseph Ualesi 

Geoff Gerard NSW Cup Coaches Award: Lorenzo Ma'afu

Bob O'Relly

Michael Doolan - Young indigenous player of the year!

Junior Eel honoured at Brad Fittler Medal Night

The New South Wales Rugby League has honoured the VB Blues junior players from the Holden State of Origin campaign at the second Brad Fittler Meda

Putting the Parra back into Parra

When Craig Catterick was sacked this year, it marked a near total wipe-out of what you might call "Parra people". 

There seems to have been over the last few years, a very deliberate policy of rejecting everything that was Parramatta.

For my that boi

Official Final Series Blog

I thought it would make sense to have a single Top Blog to post to, throughout the finals series.

As much as I hate to say it, I think the Storm are going to take it home again this year. Widdop coming back into their side is going to give them that

Yearning for One Direction

I haven’t watched a Parramatta match from up high for a very, long time. Probably, not since the 2009 semi-final against the dogs. I prefer being closer to the action and down in the terraces, but yesterday Pete Serrao invited me to the Newy game to