Sunday June 6th, 2021 McDonald Jones Stadium EELS 40 defeat KNIGHTS 4 Half time: Eels 22 – 0 Attendance: 23,015 Eels Scorers: Tries: M. Sivo x 2, R. Matterson, H. Dunster, C. Gutherson, B. Cartwright, T. Opacic, W. Blake…
Team List Tuesday – Lussick’s Long Shift Edition
NRL Team List Joey Lussick thought he was going to be starting in Round 13 right up until QLD selectors elected to pull a swift one on Reed Mahoney. After that false start it looked like the deputy dummy-half was going…
From The Stands – June 8, 2021: Parra Progress Report
Round 13, unlucky for some, hump round for everyone. There are some talking points from the victory over the Knights. However, given that this last weekend was the marker point for the second half of the draw, I thought I…
Whisky Musings – Round 13 2021: Eels Snap Back Against Knights To End Midseason Skid
Round 13 Drink Of Choice – Dimple 12YO We now resume your regular scheduled blogging. With a particularly brutal head cold behind me it is time to finally crack the fingers and bang out a belated addition to the…
Post Game Grades – Round 13 at Newcastle
Parramatta Eels 40 Newcastle Knights 4 Bouncing back from a horror couple of weeks where the NRL media and every second Eels fan had us in the running for a Brad Arthur and Gutho-less rebuild, Parra absolutely demolished…
Stats That Matta – Round 12, 2021: Rabbitohs Defeat Eels
Saturday 29th May, 2021 Stadium Australia EELS 20 defeated by RABBITOHS 38 Half time: Eels 6 – 20 Attendance: 20,743 Eels Scorers: Tries: C. Gutherson, I. Papali’i, M. Sivo, J. Arthur Goals: Conversions: M. Moses 2 from 4 Much like…
From The Stands – Fix It: A Message To The Eels And The NRL
I felt a little uneasy all week about what I wrote in my blog after our defeat to Manly. It is was my immediate, heated reaction to the loss to Manly and while I stand by what I wrote, I…
Post Game Grades – Round 12 at South Sydney
Parramatta Eels 20 South Sydney 38 Before I begin proceedings, I owe a big thank you for Forty20 for his last two weeks of service; the young man did an absolute brilliant job of filling in and writing…
From The Stands – May 24, 2021: Decision Time
That was a game that we cannot hide from. Where to from here? We need to pick ourselves up, be honest in our review, make the necessary decisions, and move on. It is easy to say it was only one…
Post Game Grades – Round 11 vs Sea Eagles
A reminder that I, Forty20, am handling Post Game Grades for the second week in a row because Mitch is unavailable at the moment. Regular grading will resume in Round 12! As a courtesy to readers I will inform…