Externally all the talk about this team has been about their incredible underdog status. How they have surpassed all expectations and how their run to the grand final has defied all belief. Yet when Simaima Taufa leads her team onto the hallowed…
The Preview – Grand Final, 2022: Eels vs Panthers
There’s nothing like a Parramatta grand final week. One hundred thousand dormant Eels fans awoke Saturday morning and raided Peter Wynn’s Score ready to get loud and proud about the mighty Blue and Gold. The NRL Fan Fest may as…
The Tip Sheet – 2022 Ep 89: Special Edition, Roads To The Grand Finals
The TIp Sheet is also available on Spotify and iTunes! The Tip Sheet goes live from Jacks Bar & Grill one final time before it is all settled on the decisive Sunday of the season. Sixties and Forty20 retread the…
Bumpers Up – September 30, 2022: Grand Final Edition
For rugby league supporters, only one thing is better than grand final week, and that’s actually taking out the premiership. The Eels have featured in nine previous deciders (counting 1977 as just one), winning four. I’ve been to every one…
The Tip Sheet – 2022 Ep 88: The NRL & NRLW Grand Final Previews Feat. Bernie Gurr
The Tip Sheet is also available on Spotify and iTunes! And then there were but two games left. A Grand Final a piece in the NRL and NRLW for the Parramatta Eels. Two bids for rugby league immortality on the…
The Tip Sheet – 2022 Ep 87: Grand Final Fever Dreams With Spiro
The Tip Sheet is also available on Spotify and iTunes! The biggest week in three and a half decades is well and truly underway for the Parramatta Eels as they prepare for a brace of Grand Finals in the NRL…
Stats That Matta – Eels 2022 Finals Series Summation
It’s not a dream. Every Eels fan might be pinching themselves to see if it has really happened, but the Blue and Golds are in the Grand Final courtesy of some heroics in Far North Queensland. An absolutely sensational 80…
Team List Tuesday – Hollywood Ain’t Got Sh*t On The NRL/W Edition
The next time you watch some schlock from Hollywood and scoff at how unbelievable the story line, how contrived the plot is to set up a seemingly impossible pay off – think first about the NRL this weekend. On the…
From The Stands- September 26, 2022: All Hail Our Captains
Since 2018, the year Parra finished last and celebrated when they were only beaten by single figures, I have endeavoured to tell my stories and experiences sitting in the stands, watching our team play. Like all of you, I am…
The Tip Sheet – 2022 Ep 86: Instant Reaction, The Ultimate Underdogs Make NRLW History
The Tip Sheet is also available on Spotify and iTunes! One of the wildest weekends in years keeps on giving for The Cumberland Throw as the Parramatta Eels blaze an unprecedented path to the NRLW Grand Final after executing the…