With Blaize Talagi departing Parramatta for apparently greener pastures at the likely behest of his management, the Eels lose another junior they have invested years of effort with little reward.
The talented junior will play fewer than 20 games for
Read more…Parramatta's 2024 season is fast slipping away from them and despite known squad depth issues there may be some changes required both to try and revitilise this while also having an eye on the future.
For mine, the presence of Makatoa in the squad is
Read more…Often our Eels membership caps are hit and miss.
Well Eels members can now have their say on the 2025 Eels member cap design.
Eels members received an email this morning from the club, allowing them vote for 1 of 3 hat designs for next season and be
Read more…Parramtta's NSW Cup side began the year winless after the opening 5 rounds and going worse than their NRL counterparts.
Yet while the NRL side flounders, the reserve grade side has returned to winning ways, netting 5 wins from their past 6 games.
The
Read more…264 games. Parramatta's longest serving coach.
The curtain comes down on Brad Arthur's tenure as Parramatta's head coach.
Having taken over in 2014 following a calamitous three seasons under Stephen Kearney and Ricky Stuart, Arthur was tasked with ri
Read more…Coaching jobs in the NRL don’t get much bigger than South Sydney.
Jason Demetriou, sacked this week, knew that and accepted it at every turn, insisting to the last that it was his privilege to come to work at the club every day.
Now, with the hot sea
Read more…If Brad Arthur were deposed tomorrow, you'd hardly find an Eels fan who would disagree.
Only 18 months after a somewhat unexpected grand final appearance, Parramatta's fall from grace has been swift and brutal.
A massive injury toll cruelled their 20
Read more…I have taken a look at Zac Lomax's stats compared with all of our collective wingers used in 2024.
And, well, it's not hard to see that Lomax fills a glaring need for a decent back line player.
Sure, Lomax wouldn't be coming here to play on the wing,
Read more…Mitchell Moses missing was always going to be a tough situation. For as much as he is seen as "going missing" or "not stepping up", this Eels side is far better with him in the number 7 than anyone else.
His kicking game, organisation and ball-playin
Read more…We may only be into round 2 but there are plenty of signs the Eels of 2024 are improved on the 2023 version.
- Junior off the bench: I tipped this as a change that was needed last year. With Parramatta regularly lacking punch and creativity from the
Read more…I have spent a lot of time working on projects outside 1 Eyed Eel. Mainly on my YouTube channel and that has been ticking along nicely since the start of the year.
But I was looking at a way to provide even better content outside of the YouTube zoo,
Read more…The Parramatta Leagues Club AGM has been held with the two board positions up for election being decided.
Current board members Sue Coleman and Greg Monaghan have been re-elected to the board, well ahead of former chairman Roy Spagnolo.
These results
Read more…Dylan Brown will partner Jahrome Hughes in the halves for New Zealand during the upcoming Pacific Championship.
Brown was the Kiwis' first choice five-eighth during their Rugby League World Cup campaign last year and will continue his representative
Read more…Back in August I dissected many of the issues surrounding Parramatta's style of play that led to their lacklustre 2023 season. Now I'm here to offer some solutions and, at least, some reasoning as to why that occurred.
Let's get the obvious out of th
Read more…As you may recall I opened a poll recently asking for nominations of the most popular member on 1 Eyed Eel.
Members both voted and emailed me regarding their favourites.
Honourable mentions go to Wiz, Prof Daz and BEM.
We actually ended up with a tie
Read more…The Eels have announced the release of backrower Jack Murchie after one season at the club.
It's not specified which club he has now joined.
It's assumed his spot would be filled by a junior and the extra money put towards a new backline recruit.
Pro
Read more…Parramatta's win over Penrith in their final match of the season was both heartwarming and frustrating. Had the side performed like that for the last 3 weeks they would be finals bound.
Instead they are in the dreaded "mathematical" chances window,
Read more…In Moneyball, Oakland A's GM Billy Beane introduces the concept of using statistics to identify players who can "get on base" so they can make up for the loss of Giambi.
He gets push back from his scouts who like to use the "eye test". In a confront
Read more…I have always thought that Junior Paulo is a starting prop. He's a big body, fit and skillful. He's also one of our highest paid players, an Origin player and international.
There is no doubt he is crucial to Parramatta's chances this year and going
Read more…When Clint Gutherson was selected in Brad Fittler's game three NSW squad, he would miss just his second game for the Eels since returning from an ACL injury in 2018.
Gutherson has been a constant in the Eels side ever since taking over the fullback p
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