Another week, and another loss for the Eels. It’s easy to be nothing but critical, and though I have my own criticisms, there are acknowledgements to be made. To find a way forward, you need to acknowledge what you already…
The Spotlight – The Football Yips (The Psychology of Losing)
Back in April of 2017, the Eels were four games into a losing streak when I wrote a post about the sequence of losses. Titled, “The Importance of Winning” , it conversely examined the psychology of losing and began with…
Post Game Grades – Round 18 at Newcastle
Parramatta Eels 16 Newcastle Knights 18 The Good: The first 10 minutes was pretty good, and Jarryd Hayne was excellent. End of list. The Bad: X-Factor: Our handling and completion was comically bad, we had 58% completion in the…
Match Day Discussion – Knights vs Eels (Round 18)
Match Day Discussion Date: Friday, 13th July, 2018 Venue: McDonald Jones Stadium Newcastle Kick Off: 7:55 pm AEST Head Referee: Adam Gee Assistant Referee: Tim Roby Head-to-head: Played 50 – Knights 28, Eels 21, Drawn 1 Odds: Eels $1.80 Knights…
Numbers Do Lie – Centre of Attention
With the recent speculation around Michael Jennings’ demotion and ISP and his general play across Season 2018, I wanted to try and identify and understand the key drivers for his recent batch of poor form, and determine whether the road…
Team List Tuesday – Back From The Bye Edition
NRL Team List Fittingly, given the disastrous nature of this season, the Eels have not emerged unscathed from their bye round. Following their poor showings in the gut-wrenching last minute loss to the St George Illawarra Dragons in Round…
Eels Team List Nostalgia – The Unheralded
It’s the bye week, and with the Eels only featuring in lower grade matches I’ve decided to take a sabbatical from the here and now and take a buggy ride down memory lane. And what better way to do so…
Post Game Grades – Round 17 vs The Bye
Parramatta Eels 0 The Bye 0 The Good: It was a hard fought victory and a game of two halves. Thankfully we were the better team in the end. The boys all pulled together and our blend of youth and…
Team List Tuesday – Little Leagues Edition
Intrust Super Premiership Team List The Wentworthville Magpies were comprehensively walloped last week at the hands of the Newtown Jets are will be desperately looking to bounce back as they travel to New Zealand to face the Warriors. Wenty’s…
From The Stands – Benchmarking For 2019
A loss after being on the brink of victory was not a good feeling. It hurt both the players and fans. Being at the ground maybe made it even worse. It just feels so symptomatic of this season. For Eels supporters,…