It’s five days on, but I’m still not ready to forgive and forget the Easter Monday calamity that the Parramatta Eels delivered to fans. I’ve barely engaged with football all week long, though the relentless bore of Zac Lomax rumours…
The Preview – Round 4, 2024: Eels vs Tigers
Lamenting the imminent departure of Hot Cross Buns from supermarket shelves can only mean one thing for Eels fans: Easter Monday and a feisty Wests Tigers team are coming up on the schedule. While I’m grateful for a third afternoon…
The Preview – Round 3, 2024: Eels vs Sea Eagles
You know the drill, Parramatta fans. Sunday afternoon, Sea Eagles on the way. It’s thump ‘em, bump ‘em, pick ‘em up and dump ‘em time! How do you feel? I don’t quite feel like a Tooheys (despite being an Eels…
The Preview – Round 2, 2024: Eels vs Panthers
I’m not sure there is a better way to start a season than by beating the Bulldogs by a lot to not many. Desperate Bulldogs mates across western Sydney are resorting to Paul Carige videos in group chats, trying to…
The Preview – Round 1, 2024: Eels vs Bulldogs
Welcome Eels fans to season 2024! It has been a quiet off-season for Parramatta, with fan and pundit expectations of the men in Blue and Gold at their lowest in recent memory. Most predictions place the Eels just outside the…
NRLW Preview – Round 6, 2023: Eels vs Cowboys
Although the Eels are still winless this season after facing a series of setbacks, the girls are continuing to impress with their determination and unwavering commitment to improvement each week. This was typified in their narrow loss to the third-…
The Preview – Round 26, 2023: Eels vs Panthers
Playing for pride. I hate that term. Not just because it means your team is not playing for any meaningful result in the premiership standings, but because if a team in that situation played with a bit more pride earlier…
The Preview – Round 25, 2023: Eels vs Roosters
Whilst there is still technical, mathematical hope for the Parramatta Eels in 2023, this side has proven over the last month that it deserves no such faith. Pathetic barely begins to describe the efforts against the Storm and Broncos, and…
The Preview – Round 24, 2023: Eels vs Broncos
You may not have heard, but the Parramatta Eels’ season is on the line this weekend against the Brisbane Broncos. The Eels take their third short turnaround of the year (and their second involving both interstate travel and a game…
The Preview – Round 23, 2023: Eels vs Dragons
The Eels’ 2023 season may be on life support, but at least we get a nice Sunday afternoon outing at CommBank Stadium to ease the pain of underperformance, misfortune and mismanagement for a couple of hours this weekend. That is,…