To Our Players And Staff, Last night two quality football teams provided the rugby league world with 100% of themselves for 80 minutes. The result was one of the most enthralling finals matches on record – played over 1400km away…
From The Stands – September 14, 2021: A Good Knight Leads To Preferred Date With Riff
Well that was fun. No one can ever say that being a Parra fan is plain sailing and last Sunday proved to be no different. My only expectations for my team are always based on effort. If they put in,…
Post Game Grades – Finals Wk 1 vs Knights
Parramatta Eels 28 Newcastle Knights 20 We won, and live to fight another day in Season 2021. The Parramatta Eels are just 3 wins away from a Premiership. Hey, great kickoff, Gutho. I gotta be honest, I…
From The Stands – September 7, 2021: Finals Footy
It wasn’t all that long ago that this time of the year was terrible for countless thousands of Eels supporters, my family included. For what seemed like forever, we all sat and watched supporters of other teams get nervous about their…
Bumpers Up – September 6, 2021: Selection Headaches And Great Expectations
Welcome to the 2021 NRL Finals Series. How good is it to have the Eels season once again continue past the regular rounds! Though the expectations of supporters have grown, and there’s nothing wrong with that, it wasn’t that long…
Post Game Grades – Round 25 vs Panthers
Parra Eels Reserves 6 Penrith Panthers 40 Tonight, Penrith needed to beat Parra by 144 to claim the Minor Premiership. Weren’t the lads impressive? Particularly in the first half, the lads went out there tonight and did the…
The Spotlight – August 31, 2021: The Moments That Brought Victory
“ “I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That’s what I’m most proud of.” Jimmy Connors There are many rugby league matches when you…
From The Stands – August 30, 2021: A Dramatic Weekend
What an eventful weekend. The headlines from the Friday night “circus” were unrelenting, so much so that they overshadowed what was arguably the upset result of the season. More on that later. First we have to dig into that upset…
Stats That Matta, Round 24, 2021: Eels Defeat Storm
Saturday 28th August 2021 Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, QLD Half time: 10 – 10 Attendance: 10,246 For the second time this year, the Eels have lowered the Storm’s colours. In a season which had seen Melbourne win 19 consecutive games, dropping…
Post Game Grades – Round 24 vs Storm
Parramatta Eels 22 Melbourne Storm 10 First things first: Tonight’s Post Game Grades has been outsourced to some of the incredible talent (who were quick enough to nab a player) on Twitter. All 17 player comments and the…