Hey guys, I’m back! More importantly though, the NRLW is back for the 2025 season and I am fired up to break down each and every round for the Blue & Gold! Unfortunately the Eels missed on a top 4…
The Preview – Round 17, 2025: Eels vs Dragons
When you write previews for a few years, unless you are writing about the Tigers, you run out of ways to say that a game is a must-win in an interesting way. Crucial, season defining, turning point, they’re all fancy…
The Preview – Round 13, 2025: Eels vs Panthers
The Eels get one of those beautiful “home away from home” games this week, literally, as the Panthers host the Blue and Gold at CommBank Stadium. The four time back-to-back premiers are anchoring the ladder, homeless and on weary legs…
The Preview – Round 12, 2025: Eels vs Sea Eagles
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…