Parramatta Eels 30 – South Sydney 12 The Good: You can’t help but respect how this team, a team without Foran, Mannah, Jennings, Taka, Watmough, Peats and Paulo, keeps turning up week after week and getting the W. Whatever happens, the…
Post Game Grades – Round 12
Parramatta Eels 20 – Newcastle Knights 18 The Good: We won. Despite a bad-day-in-Bosnia like injury toll, we somehow ended up with more points than the Newcastle Knights at the end of 80 minutes. I’m still in disbelief. Our defensive…
Jarryd Hayne – Could We Actually Afford Him?
So I’m sitting at the game with my mate Dan on Friday night, and we’re talking salary cap (obviously). He says to me “I hear Jarryd Hayne wanted to play Rugby in the Olympics this year.” “Probably too late for…
Tomorrow Night – Where Will You Be?
This is a call to arms. Tomorrow night, in what will be a final-esque atmosphere, our season starts again. If the team has ever needed a packed Pirtek Stadium, tomorrow night is the time. After the fortnight they’ve had, we…
The Salary Cap – Developing a New Model
“We’ve always agreed that the salary cap was meant to be put in place to provide an equal competition, but if these things continue to happen, and it shows that they have happened a number of times over the last…
The Salary Cap – Questions Needing an Answer
As the smoke continues to clear from Tuesday’s bombshell announcement, it seems that the fog has now rolled in. As Eels fans, we find ourselves with less answers and more questions. Some of these questions include – How has the…
D-Day – The NRL Hands Down Salary Cap Breach Penalty
Today at 11:30 am the Parramatta Eels and their fans officially learned their fate. We’ve lost all our competition points to date (12) and now have an incredibly small chance of making the finals this season. We’ve been stripped of…
Post Game Grades – Round 9
Parramatta Eels 20 – Canterbury Bulldogs 12 The Good: Everything. The way we responded to the week that’s been. The way we continue to respond to ongoing speculation. The resolve to respond to the world’s biggest forward pack. The way we…
Post Game Grades – Round 8
Parramatta Eels 16 – NQ Cowboys 32 The Good: The second half fightback was encouraging, and the tries were good fun, long rangers. The crunch in our opening defence gave as good as we got. The Bad: Letting in 32 points is not good…
Post Game Grades – Round 7
Parramatta Eels 22 – Manly Sea Eagles 10 The Good: Once again, our defensive presence was terrific. Manly have certainly turned a corner in attack the last couple of weeks and I secretly wonder how they’ll cope when their 10 million dollar…