The most positive thing to come out of the past month for me, is the fact that I honestly believe Ken Edwards is a very genuine, capable chief executive who will push the club forward.
I've been particularly impressed the Edwards hasn't stepped back
Read more…Well, the good news is that I don't have to think about conflict of interest and how I involve myself with this site going forward. To be honest, that's a massive relief because I think I would have struggled not being able to post in the manner as I
Read more…Schubert's wrong price tag drove Folau to Tahs
Full story at: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/schuberts-wrong-price-tag-drove-folau-to-tahs-20121204-2atas.html#ixzz2E5gENWoU
IF NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert had initially determined
Read more…I should know by now not to let myself get riled up by silly, little off-handed comments but one of Guru Jnr’s tweets tonight has particularly annoyed me.
The tweet said: “Parra juniors need to be heard. Juniors must have every possible opportunity t
Dear Mr. Shane Mattiske,
Acting Chief Executive Officer,
National Rugby League
I’m writing this to you as a lover of Rugby League and a supporter of the Parramatta Eels.
Firstly, let me say this. No club has more reason to care about the adherence t
Read more…There's perhaps only one area where you get a true insight into the quality of your board and that's when they fulfil their responsibility of keeping their stakeholders informed on their progress via their annual report and annual general meeting.
T
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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
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