The first site improvement I'm looking at for 2012 is to create player pages for each of our players. We'll start with current players but over time I'd like to have a page for every player who represents the Blue and Gold.
For each player, we'll pul
Read more…When you try to build a tower, the most important thing to get right is the foundations. Attempt to build your tower too high, without a stable footing, and you’re assured that eventually the whole thing is going to come toppling over.
If at Parrama
It’s probably fair to say that since the Dragons won the 2010 Grand Final with basically an all-anglo team, that there has been something of a kick-back against the trend of Polynesian and Pacific Island players increasingly filling places on NRL ro
Since the AGM, I've been pondering our club structure. I don't think anyone can possibly think the currnt structure makes any sense at all, except perhaps when you get into accounting and financial matters but I keep getting told how hard it is going
Read more…Media Announcement from the Eels:
The Pirtek Parramatta Eels today announced Hall of Fame member Eric Grothe Snr was last night selected to fill the vacancy on the Club’s Board of Directors.
Grothe joins the Parramatta NRL Board after having serv
Read more…Yes, yes, here I go again. Parramatta's lack of playmaking depth has to see Jarryd Hayne move immediately to five-eighth.
The release of Daniel Mortimer presents Parramatta with a dire lack of depth. Assuming you count Hayne as a fullback we go int
Read more…Hi all,
We've had a few trouble makers hi-jacking people's profiles and what not, and they keep coming back so for a while I'm going to manually approve new members.
So if you're looking to sign up and you're email looks in any way suspect you pr
Read more…Ok, this is pretty simple.
Whenever politics starts getting mixed up with football, we clearly have certain members who favour various factions and we fall into personal attacks and name calling.
I give a lot of my time to 1Eyed Eel, the off-seas
Read more…Firstly, let me say that for the most part I've been satisfied with the performance of our administration over the course of 2011. I've spoken, or at least, met with most of the directors and with Paul Osborne and I've found them to be passionate abo
Read more…So we're obviously well into the silly season, and I just want to ask people to be very careful about posting rumours that can damage individuals or the club.
Clearly, there is a lot of negativity surrounding the club right now. In these situations
Read more…I don't know if people have noticed or not, but when you get to the bottom of the Activity Stream on the front page there is now a More button which you can click to reveal more items.
This means if you're just keeping tabs on what has been commented
Read more…My son took to inventing his own secret language over the weekend, and as we were throwing ideas around I came up with the idea for the Official Eels Dialect.
I'm not sure whether I should call it Fui-ese of Fuish, open to suggestions, though.
So
Read more…Now that the season is complete, it's time to roll out the annual 1Eyed Eel Awards
Parra have called a 10am press conference. I'd suggest we'll get the official announcement.
Read more…Parramatta CEO Paul Osborne has scoffed at the figures bandied about in relation to the club's recruitment of Will Hopoate, at today's press conference where the signing was officially announced.
When asked about the figures touted in newspapers, Osb
Read more…Paul Osborne didn't want to comment on when Parramatta knew Will Hopoate was coming to the club at today's press conference, but it was a done deal from at least August.
I have previously revealed that I was given information from a trusted member of
Read more…Given there is going to be a likely spike in traffic due to the Hopoate signing, I thought I'd sneak in a post about working out a date for this year's 1Eyed Christmas party. It didn't happen last year, and I'm keen to make one happen for this year g
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