The Eels are back from their Lennox Head Camp as the club makes the turn towards preseason trials. The Tip Sheet brings you all the news from the camp and more – including the latest on the Zac Lomax saga and some key preseason dates for keen fans of the Blue & Gold. The NRLW gets a massive shot in the arm with a crucial addition to its roster in Layne Morgan. A representative scrum half in union – does Layne project to dummy half for the Eels?
In a relatively quiet week for the NRL, the boys look at latest stadia news as WIN Stadium gets in queue for a touch up while over yonder in England they are looking for a new head coach for their international team…and there is a familiar name among the candidates.
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I am surprised that rumour from another website even got brought up on the podcast that it has was given more oxygen.
I personally thought it was a load of hogwash especially considering the culture, team spirit and team unity Ryles is building is 100 times better then the pub team culture, senior player clique and lack of accountability we had under the previous regime.
Ryles won’t cop any nonsense and if you don’t want to be here you want to piss & moan well there is the door.
I actually disagree.
If anything, the fact the rumour made it onto the podcast suggests it wasn’t just some random internet dribble. Podcasts don’t usually waste airtime on every forum post they see — so even mentioning it implies it had enough traction, or enough credibility behind the scenes, to be worth discussing.
And while I’m hopeful about the culture Ryles is building, that doesn’t automatically mean issues can’t exist or rumours can’t be true. “Culture, unity and team spirit” are exactly the kind of things clubs want to project publicly — and it’s often when a club is in transition, or trying to reset standards, that internal friction actually increases. Not everyone buys into a new regime straight away.
Also, comparing it to the previous regime doesn’t really disprove anything. Even if last year was a solid rebuilding year that doesn’t mean this year is immune from player dissatisfaction, power struggles, or leaks. In fact, a stronger standards-based coach can create more resentment among certain players — which is precisely how rumours like this get out.
And lastly, it’s worth noting: the original post was still pretty palatable, especially coming from that member. It didn’t read like fan fiction — it could’ve easily come from a disgruntled player or someone close to the playing group. That doesn’t make it gospel, but it makes it believable enough that dismissing it as “hogwash” is a bit too convenient.
So yeah — I don’t think giving it oxygen is automatically wrong. Sometimes airing it and testing it against reality is better than pretending it doesn’t exist.
The fact you’re buying that the players are saying “1, 2, 3, fuck Jim” post training is enough to make me laugh…
Maybe Sixties can ask Mark O’Neill if it’s about our pedestrian recruitment strategy and if the senior players are happy about. It.
Oh hang on.
People do like to quote things they heard regardless of whether it true or false. I have no idea what that rumour is or about. I don’t care because essentially it is just that a rumour.
If we have an unhappy member of the team JR will sort it out one way or another.
The thing with sour grapes – they are always bitter and so you dispose if them.
We are dealing with people who have an ego and attached to that is pride. The players are playing for themselves, the team, the paying fans and finally the club. Not on the bus – then get off!
Negative comments about the administration made on forum with previous ties to destabilising factions, are we surprised? Anyone with half a brain can see straight through the post as nothing more than a political ploy to get a certain base riled up. What happened to posting with a credible source?
The comment starts off with an idea that most of the fan base likely hold and then devolves into laughable fantasies that would make Rocky Flinstone blush at the absurdity. But I’m not spending any more time on it as in a week and a half the junior rep season starts and a week after that we have our first trial, the start of what sets to be a very interesting season for the Eels. I can’t wait.
Wrong forum. 1EE is heavily tied to factions, the post was on LU by a long term member who doesn’t post bullshit for laughs. If he said it, it is what he was directly told – he is as big a supporter of our club as anyone and to be told he was posting rubbish and to disregard “because the club said so” doesn’t make it rubbish
I too am excited about the upcoming season. It took the squad about 12 rounds to translate what they were doing on the training paddock to transfer it to the field. But once we put it together we were able to defeat the eventual premiers, destroy the roosters, and annihilate the knights. Add in De Belin who was playing that distributing role at the dragons and we’ll have shapes and options that no other club questions the defence with. I honestly can’t wait and will be down at Henson park for the first trial
I read the post being referred to and do not think the post was made in any way to ‘agitate’ or pass on misinformation.
They were merely passing on informaiton about conversations that they had been invovled in, with someone reportely within the club.
A new regime will always lead to negative comments especially from people who might have been set in their ways and had a voice under the old regime but now find changes to these old ways mean that their voice has lost it’s influence and they now have to accept a new role within the team.
Some parts of what was posted may be right and some parts may be wrong, depending on the intentions and motivation of the person passing on the information. Dismissing it all because one part appears false does not make it all false. It would be follish to assume that.
Personally I wonder how happy Moses is at the club, he is coming to the end of his career and I believe would want to land a premierhsip before he retires, but lets face facts. Our recruitment and retention has been poor and the likelihood of a premiership in the new future is low, so where does that leave him?
All we have landed this year, despite having cap space, is a centre who appeared unwanted at his club, a middle who is probably the oldest player in the NRL, and was unwanted by his club and a half who is using us as a temporary home. Not exactly inspiring signings.
Much was also made of teh relationship between Moses and Lomax when Lomax first came to the club. How does this sit with Moses?
After listening to this podcast, I actually had to go looking to find the information as I was not aware of it.
My take is that the author has a right to share information that he receives with anyone AND likewise these gents have the ability to refute it.
It’s solely up to the reader to decide what they want to believe.
I sometimes share information from sources but mine are outside the club and from people who I know from when I played a thousand years ago. I do have a very good friend who is a player manager who throws me some info.
Is all this info on the money ??? Well probably not but it’s given to me faithfully.
I was told that when JR arrived at the Eels he couldn’t believe the state of the place. I’m not talking facilities but culture and more importantly the basic skill level of the players. He had a time line but had to reevaluate because he believed that they were lacking in basic skills.
He was of the opinion if they could sharpen up their professionalism then the sky is the limit.
The bottom line is that we wont attract top line talent without either paying massive overs or competing for the premiership.
That’s it.
There are no agendas against the Eels from players or agents. The players just want to win premierships.
The Eels won’t break the cap paying silly money to players.
Players from other clubs love JR as do our players.
If you are reading this and say .. bullshit ! Well that’s fine. That’s your prerogative and I personally never take any umbrage to your reactions.
JR has been a bloody breath of fresh air through the place. If it’s true that some of these players are upset with the basic structures and no nonsense attitude of JR how would they be with someone like Bellamy???
Of course most would jump to be coached by Bellamy but just want the nice Craig Bellamy not the mean one !!
Did I say how good JR has been for the club ??
Just let me reiterate that.
And I’m sorry for all the Brad Arthur fans out there but there is a reason Brad has not been able to land a NRL gig since leaving and it hasn’t been through lack of trying.
We were stagnating and JR has dragged us into the modern era.
Without doubt the best thing we have done in the last 20 years is to sign JR.
The increase in professionalism and resilience has been staggering.
My info is that the Storm will move heaven and earth to get JR back there to coach the side. They rightly believe that he is the next Craig Bellamy.
The best thing we could do is to work on finding a way to extend JRs contract. Give him what he wants and make it a 10 year deal !
Just dont lose him !
Moving forward, we play finals and develop some handy players, you will suddenly see players from other clubs lining up to join us.
It’s all in our hands.
My mail was that Jason Ryles was impressed by our teams work ethic
But he felt the eels had a big gap in the skills department and that handling and fitness was more needed at parra than anything else
People in and around the club knew and heard this, and 60’s training reports etc also mentioned this before 2025 season
Jason’s apparently very smart and is very carful with his words and tries not to negatively effect the confidence of his developing players
We have seen him stick with green players and give them lots of patience until they worked it out
You rarely ever see a coach persist and show faith in young players like we have seen from Ryles it’s truly inspiring, but also shows you how much he ‘knows what he is doing’
We saw 80 minute performances (fist time in years)
We saw towards back end of 2025 great execution & handling (first time in years)
We never gave up and showed a new level of resolve (first time we had been this tough in years)
IMO Storm will offer Jason money to go there once Bellamy retires, and my feeling is Jason would actually go back to Melbourne if he feels he cannot get the support & rosters to win comps at the Eels.
REALLY hope the eels can move to keep Jason here.
If we keep him. We will start to make the finals regularly again I believe.
Attack on one LU’er is an attack on all LU’ers (Mostly).
Its was not given as fact just what he heard.
The poster is of high integrity, not political and bewildered by the pushback.
Spending three minutes focussing on a fairly innocent forum post (in a rumours thread) was probably ill-advised – and sent more viewers looking for the shared information you wanted people to ignore! You’re not Phil Gould… you don’t have to comment about and try and influence on everything. If you want people to ignore something, just ignore it yourself #makessense101
anyone find out if Will Penisinj has actually resigned till 2028
The poster on LU is well regarded and not involved in factions or favourites. He simply shared what he was told. I don’t doubt his sources. Probably more reliable than the sources on this site who told us that Dylan was staying and Galvin was coming….
I see Jack Bird is unwanted at the Tigers and could be on the move again.
As soon as I hear his name I think of the hit Sam Tuivaiti, I think it was Sam, last year. Bird lived up to his name and became airborne.
Anybody remember seeing it?
Yes this highlights what I said… I don’t know the poster on LU because I’m not on that forum but I’m sure that he faithfully reported what he was told without bias.
His sources have as much reliability as anyone.
As for Dyl.. I told Sixties repeatedly that my mail was that he was definitely going and he rubbished me. Was this a win for me ? Maybe… but when I realised that Sixties had actually been talking directly to Dyl and Dyl directly told him he was staying … Well .. can you really blame Sixties ???
(My info was that Galvin was an Eel)
My point is that everything is fluid. Matto may be just collecting a cheque but then he may discover a new lease of life etc etc .
Moses may have the shits, Hopgood may be pissed off….
They are footballers and the cure is – winning.
Everything’s fluid, but the last thing you want as a junior is to cop the Kiss of Death endorsement from 60’s.
Just look at the Arthur boys — especially Matt, who was apparently the second coming of Cameron Smith and “the best hooker we’ve ever produced.”
Charlie Guymer, Will Penisini, Saxon Pryke and a few other ex-Rhinos should honestly be out buying anti-jinx charms.
Lol thats actually funny. Im also saying booods arthur may end up in England. Newcastle has already bought another back up hooker and boods i doubt will get a look in.
RPLA poll shows players are happy at Parra, how it is administered and also a desirable destination for players. Based on what we have seen, the team seem pretty united in my view.
Dont think there’s any doubt that the players as a unit are happy.A few senior players understand it is a young ascending roster, and the club has decent cap space still and has yet to land a blow in signing of the 1 or 2 rep level players needed for the club to progress, that’s their concern as it could mean wasted years as a player, they understand that.
It’s been obvious that there is no quick movement in that area, the excuse that now there aren’t any players available currently is moot as this should have started before the end of 2024 and compared to other clubs we were slow and ponderous in the market. We have an unbalanced roster, probably one injury to a front line back will be close to a disaster, and that’s been obvious for what 2 seasons.
The GM praised the list Manager in the interview, yet that is an area which is unbalanced, a noticeable comment.
Fortys, I have a soft spot for the Seattle Seahawks and also the patriots. Never really had a team until recently when I found out the bears 🐻 haven’t won since “1986” ++++
The Seahawks stadium and grandstand behind the goals lovin that. Looks like a mountain of people behind there.
Go bears and im not sure who to follow next week. Good luck
If you are looking for an Premier League side and want to be in more pain can I suggest Tottenham Hotspur?.
The Parramatta Eels of English football.
Great riches, great stadium and let down after let down every single year.
It’s uncanny how alike both teams are.