All season we've heard Brad Arthur talk about front loading effort and playing tough, and aside from the first two minutes, it's exactly what they did on Sunday afternoon.
The elimination final against Newcastle was a display of finals footy from Par
Read more…Update: Marata and Junior off Read more…UPDATE
— Michael Chammas (@MichaelChammas) September 13, 2021
Hearing some good news for Parramatta fans. Junior Paulo and Marata Niukore will be free to play against Penrith. Will be hit with fines, no games missed.
There's plenty to discuss as Parramatta head into week one of the finals with a very different looking side to the one that was expected.
Let's take a look at the changes Brad Arthur has made to the side.
1. Clint Gutherson - No surprises here.
2. Ha
Read more…1. Clint Gutherson
2. Haze Dunster
3. Will Penisini
4. Waqa Blake
5. Blake Ferguson
6. Dylan Brown
7. Mitchell Moses
8. RCG
9. Ray Stone
10. Junior Paulo
11. Shaun Lane
12. Marata Niukore
13. Nathan Brown
14. Will Smith
15. Bryce Cartwright
16. Isaia
Read more…The curtain has come down on the regular season as eight teams begin their off-season and look to head home.
The remaining eight now gear up for the final month of the season as we see them get whittled down to the final two on grand final day.
As ma
Read more…The past six weeks has felt like wading through thick fog for Parramatta fans. It was the fog we saw on the horizon and we watched as it descended into the valley and settled all around us.
It was denser than it suggested and it felt like it would ne
Read more…Isaiah Papali'i has been the buy of the season regardless of how Parramatta's year ends. He went from fringe first grader at the Warriors to starting player at Parramatta.
But for me, herein lies the problem. Papali'i was brought to the club to be th
Read more…At the start of the season, everyone circled this very period as the one that would make or break Parramatta's season. They would have the hardest run home of any side and they could either prove their premierships mettle or wilt into the background
Read more…2021 deja vu. That familiar feeling is back. That feeling in the gut that the premiership quest is once again over.
35 years since the club’s fourth premiership, it is set to enter a 36th year. The loss to the Rabbitohs doesn’t end the season. The Ee
Read more…Another season and it's that same sinking feeling. That feeling of disappointment that once again another year has slipped by and the premiership drought continues on its slow march towards its 40 year anniversary.
Tonight the Eels went into the clas
Read more…What is it with my sporting teams and doing everything the hard way?
Win the Champions League in regular time? Nah, we'll go down 0-3 then come back to 3-3 and win on penalties.
Finish inside the top four comfortably? Nah, what about a 95th minute wi
Read more…I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about playing the Gold Coast last weekend. Eels heavily favoured, missing their best forward and their halfback against a side that can score five tries in 15 minutes.
But Parramatta came out in the first half
Read more…This is the document that reveals how close Parramatta and Penrith came to merging.
The Eels, headed up by long-time former chief executive Denis Fitzgerald, were pushing for the two western Sydney clubs to enter into a joint-venture before the 200
The Parramatta Eels have announced the signing of their top five NRLW players for the 2021 season.
Under an NRL plan to ensure the 2021 competition has an even spread of talent, a group of elite female players have been centrally contracted and are b
Read more…Penrith Panthers and NSW halfback Nathan Cleary is racing the clock to be fit after appearing to suffer a shoulder injury during NSW's 26-0 victory over Queensland.
The Panthers co-captain was visibly favouring his right shoulder after two separate i
Read more…It has been announced that the Parramatta Eels have been given a licence to enter a team in the NRLW this season.
Pre-season training will begin on 12 July with the club utilising both the NSW Centre of Excellence and Kellyville.
The squad and coachi
Read more…Parramatta Eels hooker Reed Mahoney has been named in the number nine jersey for Queensland. It is the first time the Eels have had a hooker named in State of Origin since PJ Marsh.
1. Kalyn Ponga
2. Valentine Holmes
3. Dane Gagai
4. Kurt Capewell
5.
Read more…Many on this site and in the wider rugby league community predicted what would happen on Saturday night.
The Rabbitohs exposed Parramatta's right edge defence to the tune of six tries.
Brad Arthur's solution of switching Waqa Blake and Tom Opacic wa
Read more…Parramatta’s three-time premiership-winning legend Peter Wynn feared he would die after suffering a roadside heart attack in Bondi.
Wynn, 63, was walking home from a routine swim at Bondi Icebergs when he collapsed under a tree on Campbell Parade wit
Read more…Parramatta fans' deepest fears came true on Sunday afternoon as the Manly Sea Eagles exploited the nearly invisible defensive efforts of Waqa Blake to the tune of four tries and a sin binning, leading to a fifth try.
Blake's defensive efforts were do
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