Parramatta Eels 20 Penrith Panthers 12 The Good: Well, that is certainly a big welcome to 2019! You ask me what’s good, and I tell you BASICALLY EVERYTHING. Interestingly, only 7 of our 17 players today featured in our corresponding…
What We Learned – Super Saturday Trials vs Penrith Panthers
The Parramatta Eels closed the books on the preseason with a full-day of trials against the Penrith Panthers on a near-perfect Saturday afternoon. Narrow losses in the Jersey Flegg (18-8) and Canterbury Cup (10-8) were mitigated by an excellent display…
What We Learned – NRL Trial vs Canberra Raiders
Footy is officially back. That is always one of the biggest positives to come out of any opening trial and it still stands true tonight. The Parramatta Eels ultimately went down to the Canberra Raiders 22-20 following a bizarre sequence…
What We Learned – Jersey Flegg & ISP Trials vs South Sydney Rabbitohs
The first fixtures of the preseason are in the books and while the Eels failed to register a ‘W’ in either the Jersey Flegg or Intrust Super Premiership trials – it was far from all doom and gloom. Naturally anyone…
Eels Junior Rep Trial Notes – Saturday, December 15, 2018
Warm and humid conditions greeted the young stars of Parramatta and Canberra as the two clubs clashed in the Harold Matts and SG Ball trials on Saturday at the Marist Brothers Westmead grounds. Before getting into the notes, I have…
Parra Season Statistics – Annus Horribilis By Numbers
Well what a diabolical season that was. After so much anticipation following a top 4 finish in 2017, Parramatta played out a very poor 2018 with no rhyme nor reason as to why things went wrong. But what about where…
Post Game Grades – Round 25 vs Roosters
Parramatta Eels 10 Sydney Roosters 44 The Good: Season 2018 is over. For I am better off without you, Season 2018; for I have hated thee with the white hot fury of a thousand suns. The Bad: I saw someone…
From The Stands – Excuse Free Zone
“He deserves to…he is better than this…I can’t believe…” Enough of the excuses! I know a review into our season is being conducted and I accept far greater footy minds will understand what went wrong in terms of the football…
Ringrose Match Reports – Eels Jersey Flegg and Wenty ISP
Jersey Flegg – Bulldogs 30 Defeated Eels 18 With literally a battalion of players missing from their team due to injuries and promotion, the young Eels were always going to have to produce something special to win this game. That…
Post Game Grades – Round 24 at North Queensland
Parramatta Eels 6 North Queensland Cowboys 44 The Good: In 2019 we’ll have a new stadium, Junior Paulo, Blake Ferguson, Manly’s leading try scorer Shaun Lane, a Fijian winger named Sivo and more coming our way. It could be worse,…