Coming into the season Ryan Matterson was viewed as a starting player in the side. A strong, powerful backrower with good hands and good defence, he's the type of backrower Parramatta likes and is needed in today's game.
However, after starting the s
Read more…Last week my wife and I welcomed our second child into the world
Little man and mum are doing well and hoping to come home tomorrow.
He arrived in time for Parramatta's win over Penrith on Friday night and was asleep on my chest at full time.
I am a
Read more…If you purely looked at the stats of Parramatta's round six clash against the Tigers, they won it everywhere but the scoreboard.
They ran for nearly 300 more metres, had more possession and better field position. Those stats generally indicate who th
Read more…When Parramatta ran out onto Cumberland Oval on 12th April 1947, one of the men in the crowd of 5,266 supporters was Jack Argent.
One half of the two Jacks that had built Parramatta achieved his goal of seeing a local side in the New South Wales Rugb
Read more…It's Game Day!!!
The Eels head to the Gold Coast and look to make it three in a row and pull ahead in their overall record against the Titans.
Since the two sides met in Round One, the Eels have only lost one match and now sit in the top four while
Read more…Beating Melbourne in Melbourne is not something Parramatta do regularly. Beating Melbourne isn't something that has happened very often either. And most assumed normal service would resume this weekend after the Eels managed two wins over their south
Read more…Key points:
Parramatta's quest to bring a wealth of western Sydney talent home for the NRL Telstra Women's Premiership was a huge success as the team prepares for their first season in the competition.
The Eels are one of three sides set to enter the NRLW in 202
Read more…Let's face it, England has not been a true test cricketing power for decades. Their brief flurry of Ashes wins from 2009-2013 coincided with all of Australia's legends retiring and even then, those series were still competitive.
And that little perio
Read more…There has been a lot of discussion over the age of some of our recruits, especially seeing as we've released younger players. Hodgson, Rein and if we get him, Tariq Sims, are all over 30.
Now I don't have any real inside information into the ongoing
Read more…Recruitment and retention is always fraught with different levels of risk and reward. Players are handed big money deals and don't perform, while the guys on lesser wages play above their pay grades.
For the last few years, the Eels have had the good
Read more…Seeing Reed Mahoney being courted by the Bulldogs isn't exactly panic stations, but it's certainly added some urgency to his negotiations.
Reed is the most important player to the way we play.
He is a generational hooker for the Eels and will be bat
Read more…The Parramatta Eels are pleased to announce that Michael Ennis and Paul McGregor will be joining the coaching staff as consultants for Season 2022.
Michael and Paul had long and successful careers as players, Paul spent seven years as head coach of S
Read more…Parramatta Eels lock forward Nathan Brown played much of the 2021 season with multiple lower leg injuries.
It's been revealed that Brown has recently undergone syndesmosis repair surgery and an ankle clean out on one leg and will undergo surgery on a
Read more…David Riccio from The Daily Tele is reporting the Eels have signed hooker Mitch Rein to a one year contract.
Rein's recruitment strengthens the club's hooking depth as Joey Lussick has departed for St Helens.
Rein comes to the club with 208 games of
Read more…The Ken Thornett Medal is once again upon us with Parramatta's season coming to an end.
The reigning medal holder is Clint Gutherson and no player has gone back to back since Jarryd Hayne in 2009 and 2010.
There have been a number of standout perform
Read more…With the club announcing four players departing and there will no doubt be some recruitments and upgrades to come over the off-season, here's what the club's depth chart looks like at the moment.
Fullback: Clint Gutherson, Hayze Perham, Sean Russell
Read more…And with one horrendous call of his whistle while the circus music and streamers went off in The Bunker, Ashley Klein killed off Parramatta's season. Throw in a bunch of terrible non-calls because, once again, the officials are incompetent and they d
Read more…This is an absolutely brilliant podcast. A Tigers sponsor explains the incompetence in the club when it comes to recruitment and retention. Would have loved to hear something from an Eels sponsor during the dark years.
To paraphrase: Justin Pascoe th
Read more…Parramatta have engaged a mental skills coach in the belief he could provide the edge required to help the team finally push deep into a finals series.
When the Eels dropped out of last year’s play-offs in straight sets, a club review found the sid
