It’s not shaping up to be an all time great battle in one of the fiercest rivalries in the NRL, but there is always some spice to a Parramatta v Manly match, even on a cold wet night during Origin…
The Preview – Round 11, 2025: Eels vs Knights
It’s Friday night, it’s 6 o’clock, cold, wet and it’s 17th versus 14th. Get excited people, it’s the Eels and the Knights! The resistable force against the moveable object, the worst defence in the league against its worst attack. Who…
The Preview – Round 10, 2025: Eels vs Dolphins
After an unusual number of Sunday afternoon games, as the weather turns the Eels start a month-long stretch of Thursday and Friday night football. While the stretch of lovely weekend football wasn’t matched with a stretch of lovely weekend victories,…
The Preview – Round 9, 2025: Eels vs Sharks
Eels fans making the journey to Magic Round has often felt like when Dad made you pick out your own switch from the backyard, but this year is going to be different, I feel it. The return of Mitch Moses…
The Preview – Round 7, 2025: Eels vs Tigers
While I may have my holidays mixed up, this Easter I’m going to be thankful for a week of off-field insanity that has left me with zero room to focus on the performance of the Parramatta Eels. Last week was…
The Preview – Round 6, 2025: Eels vs Raiders
Happy Darwin is Done day to all who celebrate, and given that the audience here should be almost entirely Eels fans (with maybe a few stray, curious Raiders dropping by; hello Raiders fans, always had a soft spot for you…
The Preview – Round 5, 2025: Eels vs Dragons
It is everyone’s dream to be the best version of yourself when bumping into your ex for the first time since the breakup, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen for you. With Clint Gutherson dropping by to pick his hair…
The Preview – Round 4, 2025: Eels vs Sea Eagles
Here we go again. It’s Manly. It’s Parra. It’s Brookvale. It’s wet. It could be very ugly. Despite the bounce back in effort shown by the Eels last week, the high flying Sea Eagles on their home track is one…
The Preview – Round 3, 2025: Eels vs Bulldogs
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I got what I deserved for having faith in a Parramatta Eels turnaround last week, in the form of two hours of steaming, sweating misery and disgusting football.…
The Preview – Round 2, 2025: Eels vs Tigers
What a week. I’ve lived through some dark weeks as an Eels fan; salary cap dramas, Ricky Stuart’s overhead projector, nearly every Magic Round since it started, but these last seven days were right up there. The rare combination of…