No matter the football code, truly supporting a team is all about emotion. You commit to a team and you stick, thick or thin, good times or bad. And when it comes to Eels supporters, we’re the NRL equivalent of…
From The Stands – Supporting The Team, Not The Media
Everybody hates losing, especially the players. Let the negative responses to my opinions come as they may, but I’m not going to lay the boot in. Of course, I won’t ignore the obvious faults from the Eels performances. Against the…
Post Game Grades – Round 7 at Newcastle
Parramatta Eels 14 Newcastle Knights 28 The Good: Well I guess we sort of, kinda, made an attempt of a comeback. … I guess. The Bad: Like an ex-girlfriend whose number you just can’t bring yourself to delete, the Eels…
From The Stands – The Homecoming Party
This might surprise you, but From The Stands was really challenging to write this week. Seriously, how can I, how can anyone, accurately sum up what it was like being in those BankWest Stadium stands on Easter Monday? The roar…
BankWest Stadium – The New Home For My Eels Memories
Without question, I dedicate too much of my life to the Eels. I’m fairly certain I can blame my father for starting it. Going with him to Cumberland in the 1960s as a very young kid was ground zero. I…
The Spotlight – This Home Is Where Our Heart Is
Just this week Parramatta CEO, Bernie Gurr took aim at some upstart comments made by interim Tigers CEO, Simon Cook. As the two teams prepared to do battle in the opening game at BankWest Stadium, Cook was quoted as saying,…
From The Stands – Back Where We Belong
Tough game, tough loss. I’m more convinced each year that nothing good ever happens in Canberra. Nothing. It’s like our Bermuda Triangle. Strange things happen when we enter it. From The Stands this week should state the obvious. We dropped…
This Week In PARRAdise – Issue 4, 2019: Somebody Clone Me
What a strange week. It seems incongruous to report feeling frustrated in a week which delivered great results, but that’s exactly how the past seven days in PARRAdise impacted me. The Eels club were scattered far and wide in their…
From The Stands – Our Kingdom For Our King
What price should you place on leadership? The words from Jack Gibson are more succinct then I could ever be. He said, “to win a championship, you’ve got to have a nucleus of five or six real tough, hard competitors. To…
Around The NRL – Round 4
QUICK HITS AND TALKING POINTS FROM ROUND 4 OF THE NRL 36 4 The round started off with a completely one-sided contest at the SCG as the Sydney Roosters piled on the pain against the Brisbane Broncos. The 36-4 scoreline…