by Smithy
Having spent nearly a decade at Parramatta it really hurts to see the great club as it has been on its current path. Since 2006 the huge number of personnel who have left the Eels means there are nearly no playe
The Parramatta Eels have registered their fifth win of the season after defeating fellow cellar-dwellers the St George-Illawarra Dragons 26-22. An inspired performance from Fuifui Moimoi helped drag the Pink and Blues over the line in a tough affair.
Read more…So rumours have been flying around that Canberra have offered Ricky Stuart a multi-million dollar deal. Supposedly it’s $7million over seven seasons.
I believe it would be fair to say that a seven year deal in rugby league is ludicrous to say the lea
Read more…Luke Brooks made his NRL debut for the Tigers tonight and played a superb match. His kicking game was terrific and he ran the team like an experienced campaigner, even scoring a try himself.
However, let me remind you why this kid made his debut. Bec
Read more…Veteran NRL coach Brian Smith will steer the United States in their first appearance at a Rugby League World Cup later this year.
Smith's appointment was announced on Thursday night, just over two months before the Tomahawks make their debut at the 1
Read more…Former Parramatta Eels player, Luke O'Dwyer has had his final season cut short after being injured in the Titans' loss to the Raiders.
O'Dwyer tore his ACL which will put him out for the rest of the season. He was planning on finishing his career at
Read more…If his Wrecking Ball Tour wasn't enough earlier this year, The Boss will return to Australia in 2014, appearing for the first ever time in Perth and Adelaide. Due to huge public demand The Boss, accompanied by the famous E Street Band, will do a full
Read more…Since 2009 I have been of the opinion that Hayne’s best position is fullback. It gives him time, space and allows him to chime in when needed.
I have never seen Hayne as Parramatta’s long-term five-eighth. When he made the move there in 2011 it didn’
Read more…No, hell has not frozen over, nor has the earth stopped spinning. Parramatta have won their fourth game of the season. The Eels won 26-22 over fellow cellar dweller, the Wests Tigers.
The Tigers scored first through rookie David Nofoaluma but Sio was
Read more…Barely four years after the inaugural match, the Indigenous All Stars Vs the NRL All Stars has received a massive blow.
In 2014 there will be no All Stars match, instead there will be a Nines series held in Auckland. According to the NRL it is due to
Read more…Jarryd Hayne has been named for the Eels’ match against the Tigers this weekend and, given how much trouble the Tigers are in, Parramatta has been installed as favourites.
However, do Parramatta deserve a player of Hayne’s calibre? Simply, no. Parram
Read more…For an Eels fan, re-building is an all too familiar word to hear. We heard it from Daniel Anderson, we word it from Stephen Kearney and now we're hearing it from Ricky Stuart.
However, it is a fact of professional sport and in fact in any business. A
Read more…by Smithy
Having spent nearly a decade at Parramatta it really hurts to see the great club as it has been on its current path. Since 2006 the huge number of personnel who have left the Eels means there are nearly no playe
The bloodletting at the Eels continues after Parramatta Leagues Club boss Bob Bentley was sensationally sacked by the wooden-spooners. Bentley, who was also the chief executive of the NRL club for about a year, was summarily dismissed after a board m
Read more…Let me preface this by saying this is not a blog about soccer as such. This is about how Parramatta needs to lift it's membership performance before even dreaming of 40,000 members.
So I signed up as a member of Liverpool FC a little over two months
Read more…I feel we are losing something from the game of rugby league. It's not about the punching or the shoulder charge. No one goes out onto the field to intentionally do these things. It just happens. There's no point me trying to explain it, so I won't.
Read more…So even though I'm not in Australia currently I had the pleasure of watching the Maltese play the British Mercian 1 Army team. The Maltese had a 16 year old debutante, Brad Littlefair who plays for the Mascot Jets. In his International debut against
Read more…In Strathfield, 2004, a group of Maltese-Australians, including former Parramatta Harold Matthews coach Joe Grima and his assistant Tony Farr, hatched a plan to bring the greatest game of all to the islands of Malta.
Today, rugby league is one of the
Read more…So, after last night's Origin match I tuned in to The Phil Gould Show. For those who don't know Gould has a show on the digital edition of The Sydney Morning Herald. It's usually pretty good, Gould leaves a lot of his personal agenda out of it and an
Read more…With the naming of another Eels Legend coming up in July, it is time for the 1 Eyed Eel Greatest Ever Eels Side to be announced. This was started last year and I have gone through all the responses and now an 18 man squad will be listed below:
1. Ken
Read more…Blake Ferguson is the latest NRL player to be embroiled in an off-field situation after getting drunk the day before Origin camp. Ferguson has no one to blame but himself for getting in this situation. Of course being an Australian he has the right t
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