Parramatta Eels 36 – Canberra Raiders 6 The Good: Everything really, but I’ll single our attack’s coming out party. The first 40 minutes was electric. The second half wasn’t bad either. Oh, we’re currently second on the ladder, too. The Bad: I…
Post Game Grades – Round 5
Parramatta Eels 18 – Penrith Panthers 20 The Good: The Isaac De Gois try was magic. Thought it deserved to be a game winning sort of try. The Bad: 2013 called, they want their Parramatta Eels back. Regardless of…
Post Game Grades – Round 4
Parramatta Eels 8 – Wests Tigers 0 The Good: The second part of the scoreline – keeping the Tigers (an incredibly potent attacking side, mind you) to zero is always going to be a reason to smile. Winning ugly is always…
Post Game Grades – Round 3
Parramatta Eels 20 – Canterbury Bulldogs 6 The Good: The way our forwards stood up to a more renowned and celebrated Bulldogs pack. The recovering defence. Corey Norman’s dummy. Foran’s hamstrings. The performances signalling the 2016 arrivals of Jennings, Semi and…
Post Game Grades – Round 2
Parramatta Eels 20 – NQ Cowboys 16 The Good: The savagery of our defence. Brutal might be the most apt description. Other nominees for the descriptive award include punishing; rushing; aggressive; consistent and murderous. It would have been great to watch on TV,…
Team List Tuesday – Return of the Wicks
Following a relatively positive set of results for the Eels over the first week of action with two wins and a loss in the back pocket it comes as little surprise that there are minimal changes across the three major…
Post Game Grades – Round 1
Parramatta Eels 4 – Brisbane Broncos 17 The Good: It’s funny to say about a loss, but the scoreline. Losing both your halves and then losing to maybe the best team in the comp by 13? It could have been much worse.…
Post Game Grades – Final Trial
Parramatta Eels 22 – Penrith Panthers 8 The Good: Our aggression in defence. At times it felt unfair. The Bad: The amount of penalties we conceded. Ridiculous. The X-Factor: The on again off again element of the rain reminded…
A Quick Look at the Salary Cap – Part 4
Hope you’ve enjoyed this quick look at the salary cap. Obviously with something so detailed and wide reaching, there’s no way I can cover it, even in an over extended, unnecessarily long 4 part series. Nonetheless, I hope you’ve had…
A Quick Look at the Salary Cap – Part 3
At the end of Part 2, I asked you to consider the salary cap strategy implemented by the Parramatta Eels, both in 2014-2015 seasons, and more importantly what it might look like this season. This is what I hope to…