Here we are again. One day away from Easter Monday and the tradition continues with a big Easter showdown between the Eels and Tigers. This game always draws a big crowd and I can’t see this game being any different.…
Live Blog – District Representative Finals Week 1
It is a gorgeous Saturday morning in the Inner West as the Eels launch their finals campaign in both the Harold Matthews and the SG Ball. The regulation season proved to be largely successful for both squads as they each…
Parra Pete’s Eels History – Easter Footy Flashback
Late last year TCT were fortunate in securing historical contributions from Parra Pete, a regular correspondent in the media during the 1960s. Pete has quite a scrapbook on the Eels, and a wealth of memories about the heady days of…
Stat Attack Review – Round 6: Eels vs Warriors
Eels 10 defeated by Warriors 22 Crowd: 13,526 Well this game was both positive and negative. The positive was that we started better and played better than the past few weeks. The unfortunate negative was our game management. In my…
First Quarter Review – Round 1 Through To 6
Welcome to the first of four regular season installments (and hopefully a post-season edition!) where I will break down the respective seasons of our NRL, ISP and NYC squads across the course of 6-game brackets (following the bye schedule in the…
Team List Tuesday – Parting of the ANZ Sea Edition
Mitchell Moses will be all the talk for both teams coming into the now traditional Easter Monday classic fixture. Might as well give him a cheesy TLT headline in honour of it all! NRL Team List With the…
The Importance Of Winning – Without Being Captain Obvious
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is…
Whiskey Musings – Round 6: We need to have a talk, Parramatta
Round 6 Drink of choice – Nothing. Some players grow their hair or beards out until the team wins, so I am refusing to pour another drink until we chalk one up in the ‘W’ column. I am going…
Round 6 Preview – Eels vs Warriors (18th Man Edition)
New Zealand Warriors v Parramatta Eels Mt Smart Stadium Sunday 2:00PM The Eels will make the trip over the Tasman Sea in less than ideal circumstances following an injury at training to Bevan French’s posterior crucial ligament that will sideline…
Warriors Analysis – Signs of Life & Performing for Eighty Minutes
There were periods of the game against the Raiders in the nation’s capital where it looked like it may have been a repeat performance of the weeks prior from the blue and gold, but a few moments in the first…