The Wiliame/Sandow fullback ploy

Ok, so we've thrown around a bunch of ideas here this week about players and I've settled on the team for the Roosters. I'm sure you'll all rest easy tonight knowing that. Clearly against the Roosters, we need Sandow's attack - so dropping or benchin

Brutal North Sydney match

I don't suppose anyone has a recording of that one game against North Sydney where our forwards were just absolutely brutal. I think it may have been a first semi-final (or just prior to the finals). Still just about my favourite game of all time (wi

A defensive de-construction and why Sandow is playing for his NRL career

Chris Sandow will be a very lucky man if he is lining up in first grade next week.

We all had such hopes that Sandow might be the number seven that Parramatta had long hoped for. When he arrived we knew that he lacked something as an organising seven

My re-imagining of the Eels

So I set myself a task as to what I would do, if I was given the playing talent that Parramatta will assemble next year to come up with a structure purely based on the talents that we have available to us. And to not be afraid to head out to left-fie

Hayne to decoy

I've been reading the various blogs and posts about the five-eighth position, and it's certainly been interesting seeing how Ricky has tried to use Hayne to date.

Hayne is definitely playing more of a traditional fullback role, and I believe he's get

Match Report: Baby Eels outgunned by Dragons

Parramatta's baby Eels went down 32 to 12 against the Dragons, sunk by a combination of rookie defensive errors and amateurish mistakes by our playmakers.

The Dragons clearly came into the match with a plan to target Parramatta's right fringe and Kel

Playing away from Parra Stadium

For the past couple of years there has been two Parramatta teams. There is the Parramatta team that plays at Parramatta Stadium

This side is close to being a top-eight team. Competitive in every encounter, this side has a pretty fair win/loss ratio,

The Cupboard (chat) is back

UPDATE: The Cupboard (chat) has been restored. From my perspective, managing the site has been a lot easier since it was removed. However, I know a lot of you, really enjoy the chat aspect of the site so please don't abuse it, and behave the same way

What now?

After enjoying a week away from everything, following what I think might just have been the busiest week of my life, I'm back and feeling mightily re-energised.

Obviously, there were follow-on shocks from the election. I'm disappointed with what tran

While I'm Away

I'm away on a holiday this week, out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so will only be logging on very rarely this week. While I'm away, I have given the moderators more license to delete blogs and posts that fly anywhere neat the wind of our code

No personal blogs, etc targeting members

Hello all,

Do not post blogs, pictures, videos, etc that put any other member in the position to be ridiculed, etc.

I'm quite serious about this, any content will be deleted immediately and if its a repeat violation, the member will be suspended.

Ph

Let us all put Parra first

“Proud history. New Beginnings”.

New coach. Yes. New CEO. Yes. But still lurking behind those changes was the same old board, with their ever-growing baggage and problems.

Only now that we have a new board, to match the new coach and new CEO can th

The Eels Under 16s National Title match to be broadcast on Fox Sports

From the club:

In great news for the Pirtek Parramatta Eels Harold Matthews Cup side, the National Titles played this Sunday, May 12 will be broadcast on

The madness has to stop

Every time I think that our club’s administration can’t get any lower, they find new ways to shock me.

Besmirching the character of every one of those candidates on the ParraFirst team is a disgrace. I truly hope that someone is leaning on Eric to p

Worrying story about sponsorship

Not sure if anybody saw the story on the weekend about The Star pulling the pin on their sponsorship of South Sydney.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/the-star-pulls-pin-on-2m-sponsorship-deal-with-south-sydney-rabbitohs/story-e6frexnr-1226

Eels are Harold Matthews Premiers

Junior Footy Blog

Tomorrow, marks the start of the Parra district junior footy competition. I thought it might be nice to have a blog for everyone who has kids or is involved in the competition (or indeed any junior footy, we won't discriminate) to chat, boast, whinge

Mannah's ankle could be broken

TheParraEels via Twitter

I've been hung

I'm really, really busy at work so I'm going to post a short piece on this, but I thought you might all be interested to know that I have been found guilty and suspended for 12 months. Not only that, but my reinstatement as a member will then be cond

Ricky - time to stop playing it safe

Since arriving at the Eels, Ricky Stuart has played it safe. Straight bat. Few risks.

It’s time for that to change.

On face value, you might say Stuart has taken risks. He promoted youngsters Vai Toutai and Kelepi Tanginoa out of nowhere to the fir