A mercy to us all, by 8PM tonight season 2024 will be in the books, one way or the other. Either the Wests Tigers or Parramatta Eels will take the dreaded wooden spoon, both deserving candidates but only one can…
The Preview – Round 26, 2024: Eels vs Dragons
It’s Member Appreciation Day for Parramatta fans today, and while the most appreciative thing the Eels could do for me in season 2024 is put me out of my misery, I’d settle for a second best of an upset win…
The Preview – Round 25, 2024: Eels vs Broncos
The 2024 season has been in the “let’s get this over with” phase since just about round 4, but this week feels especially like a game that is making up the numbers. Minor chance of victory, neither team with much…
The Preview – Round 24, 2024: Eels vs Roosters
It’s funny how a team you’ve given up on can still hurt you so much, but the 2024 Parramatta Eels managed it last week by teasing, basically delivering the king of all upsets, then flittering it away with perhaps the…
The Preview – Round 23, 2024: Eels vs Panthers
It’s a landmark day, as the Parramatta Eels of 2024 have finally earned my trust enough to not tip them to have 40 points put on them this weekend. I’ve been waiting for a collapse that doesn’t look like it…
The Preview – Round 22, 2024: Eels vs Warriors
I was mercifully wrong on the timing of the complete Parramatta collapse last week, as while the Melbourne Storm never needed to get out of first gear to comfortably beat the Eels, the effort from the men in Blue and…
The Preview – Round 21, 2024: Eels vs Storm
There comes a point in every bad team’s season where it all just gets too hard, and the floggings start to mount. For the Tigers that was a few weeks ago, and for their fellow spoon battlers the Eels, this…
The Preview – Round 19, 2024: Eels vs Titans
In a week where we got our first new Eels head coaching appointment in a decade, the footy feels like a bit of an afterthought. That’s a fair summary of the 2024 season as a whole, an afterthought, as fans…
The Preview – Round 18, 2024: Eels vs Rabbitohs
While the real game for Parramatta Eels fans might be the waiting game, until the club announces its much anticipated hire for the new head coach, we may as well try and enjoy some football in the meantime. Channel Nine…
The Preview – Round 17, 2024: Eels vs Knights
How good was State of Origin? What a performance by Mitchell Moses, just an absolute masterclass from the man who has done the impossible and stopped people asking “who is the next Sterlo?”. Not that I hear many comparisons between…