Parramatta Eels halfback Mitchell Moses has revealed he'll be managing his troublesome calf for the rest of the season after re-injuring it during his side's clash against the Canberra Raiders earlier in the season.
Moses originally tore his left cal
Read more…The Parramatta Eels march on in this year's NRL competition, bringing their tally to nine wins from 11 games.
That's the side's best start since 1977. The 1982 and 1983 Premiership winning sides both managed eight wins from their opening 11. Historic
Read more…Last Saturday saw almost all of Parramatta's squad play at least one first grade game, giving us a better indication of the strengths of our squad.
For mine, Takairangi has shown he is best suited to a bench role where he can provide 20-30 minutes of
Read more…The more the season progresses and the more players coaches are forced to call upon, the more I've been thinking that the NRL should have permitted an extended bench for this season with a view to making it a permanent move.
There is always a discuss
Read more…The Parramatta Eels suffered their second loss of the season, going down to the Manly Sea Eagles at Brookvale oval 22-18 on Saturday night.
From early on the Eels didn't look like they were entirely there. Basic mistakes were common, hooker Reed Maho
Read more…Eels Head Coach Brad Arthur has confirmed second rower Ryan Matterson and winger Blake Ferguson will miss tomorrow night's clash with the Sea Eagles due to injury.
Here's what he said.
“Ryan Matterson has a small fracture in his thumb which he played
Read more…They are some of the famous words spoken by legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.
If Lombardi were Australian and a rugby league coach, he'd have been proud of the effort from the Parramatta Eels in yesterday's clash against the Newcastle
Read more…Coming into this season you'd excuse Parramatta Eels fans for being skeptical about the top four tags being slapped on them.
The Eels haven't done particularly well when expectations have been placed on them. In the past they've excelled when not muc
Read more…There’s a popular saying: Once bitten, twice shy. Well, for an Eels fan try 200 times bitten, 400 times shy.
For those lucky enough to experience the halcyon days of the 1980s where the Eels were kings for three consecutive years and then gave legend
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Few things generate more discussion and excitement in rugby league world than rookie with more size than a lot of seasoned professionals.
At 191cm and 115kg, he's Parramatta's second largest player behind Junior Paulo. But at just 20 years of age, t
Read more…It’s been 39 years since the Eels broke their inaugural premiership drought in 1981.
Teams had come close before. In 1976 they fell to Manly, in 1977 they lost to St George in a grand final replay.
1981 marked 34 years without a Premiership for the p
Read more…The Parramatta Eels will have to do without livewire halfback Mitchell Moses after he succumbed to a calf injury midway through his side's match against the Canberra Raiders. Head coach Brad Arthur has revealed it's a recurrence of a previous calf in
Read more…They're the headline grabbing players that clubs throw the proverbial kitchen sink at.
They cost a lot. $1m per season. 10 percent of the salary cap.
Are they worth it?
So far this season Kalyn Ponga has re-signed on a long-term, multi million doll
Read more…The Sydney Roosters showed why they're favoured to become the first team since the Eels of the 80s to three-peat when they overcame the Blue and Gold on Saturday night in the best game of the season so far.
But in losing, the Eels displayed qualities
Read more…The halves position at the Eels has been a seemingly poisoned chalice for the decades following the retirements of Brett Kenny and Peter Sterling.
Parramatta has been lucky to find one good half at a time, let alone two that compliment each other.
E
Read more…Battle of the West, which Eel performs best? The poll below will open at 10pm for voting. Man of the match will be determined by first past the post as will 3,2,1.
Phil Gould is often referred to by Denis Carnahan as the man who thinks he invented rugby league.
Across a career spanning close to five decades Gould has gone from player, to coach, to administrator and media pundit.
Gould often draws criticism for
Read more…With rugby league returning last weekend we got our first look at the new refereeing system with the six again call used pretty regularly in the Parramatta vs Brisbane clash.
Winning the middle has now become more important than ever as a team on the
Read more…If defence wins premierships the Eels have started 2020 on the right foot, setting a new defensive milestone for the NRL era.
With just two tries conceded through three games and 14 points in total, the Eels are the most frugal team after three games
Read more…How good is it to have the footy back? After 67 days of lockdown we finally got to watch live rugby league... and it was worth the wait.
Parramatta Eels 34 - Brisbane Broncos 6
With the Eels hyped up to their eyeballs about being Premiership contende
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