“The big test in football is how a captain leads under conditions of adversity.” Of course these are not my words, but the words spoken by the great Jack Gibson. I believe that in a football team you have two…
From The Stands – April 22, 2024: Time To Care Like The Fans Do
I honestly find it very easy to know what to write about each week or should I say most weeks. When I watch the game something always stands out. It’s usually a moment, or a few moments, in a match…
From The Stands – April 16, 2024: Desire And The King
Professional sport is all about winning. Let’s take a cliche that we heard numerous times recently as the pressure mounted on both Jason Demetriou and Brad Arthur. “The NRL is a results driven business”. The jobs of players, coaches and…
From The Stands – April 10, 2024: Time To Turn Up
Disappointing, frustrating, confusing. We can all probably add far more colourful adjectives to our thoughts about what we witnessed from the Eels on Sunday. Most of us are realists. We understand that having a linchpin like Mitch Moses missing from…
From The Stands – April 2, 2024: Wrong Selection Calls And A Lost Identity
The words I used to describe the Eels first three games were discipline and composure. Strangely, those two qualities went AWOL against the Tigers. To be honest, my worries started from the moment the starting team was announced. Winning games…
From The Stands – March 26, 2024: The Making Of A Team; The Making Of Dylan Brown
How great was It to defeat the Sea Eagles in such a thrilling contest! Thank you to both teams. My dislike of Manly runs deep. They are and will always be an arch rival but there is no denying they…
From The Stands – March 20, 2024: Staying Connected
Welcome to my first post for the 2024 season. I’ve decided to write about the first two rounds in this issue of From The Stands. There have been contrasting results but I have loved the commencement of the Eels 2024…
From The Stands – August 22, 2023: Gutter Gossiping
What is the benefit of rehashing past words? Nothing that happened last Friday surprised me. It probably didn’t surprise any Eels supporter. The manner in which the Eels finished the season is a major disappointment and it’s just not good…
From The Stands – August 15, 2023: Not Good Enough
What to write about after the disappointment that was last Friday? I am being disingenuous if I ignore it. It was not good enough. The team competed for twenty minutes but from there it was no contest. Obviously the inherent…
From The Stands – August 9, 2023: The Carty Way
How should we react to the Eels victory over the Dragons? We certainly had a wild ride watching from the CommBank Stadium stands. While the Eels started well and then drifted into silly errors that proved costly, I respected the…