First up, congratulations to the Eels 2023 SG Ball side, who claimed the first premiership in a hot minute for the Parramatta Eels with a nailbiting win over Newcastle last weekend. Let’s hope some of those kids become household names…
The Preview – Round 9, 2023: Eels vs Knights
After a game like last weekend, the last thing you want to think about is the current season. Still, my football obsessed mind can only let the greatest game of all travel so far and usually it rests on pointless…
The Preview – Round 8, 2023: Eels vs Broncos
It’s time for the Territory Eels’ annual trip north to Darwin, which means it’s time for my annual rant about how little the NRL does to support this initiative. Maybe because the deal is club driven, something the Eels profit…
The Preview – Round 7, 2023: Eels vs Bulldogs
In a season where we made a grand final and put on one of the great Eels victories in the qualifier, my favourite memory of 2022 may be watching dejected Bulldogs fans streaming out of CommBank Stadium shortly after halftime…
The Preview – Round 6, 2023: Eels vs Tigers
The Wests Tigers are having one of those weeks that makes you sit back and think “gee, glad that isn’t us.” Actually the Wests Tigers are having one of those decades. The off-field performances make the on-field efforts look decent,…
The Preview – Round 5, 2023: Eels vs Roosters
It’s very funny that the Sydney Roosters are so upset about a young kid they poached and bent over backwards to support abandoning them for rugby union, because the Roosters are very much the rugby union of rugby league. Propped…
The Preview – Round 4, 2023: Eels vs Panthers
I usually use this little introduction to talk a bit of trash, outline the rivalry with our opponent and have a few digs. There isn’t much point in that this week, because every Eels fan is all too familiar with…
The Preview – Round 3, 2023: Eels vs Sea Eagles
After opening up the season against two competition heavyweights, it will be a relief for Parramatta fans to be heading to Brookvale for a clash with a team that missed the 2022 finals, the Manly Sea Eagles. A dysfunctional mess…
The Preview – Round 2, 2023: Eels vs Sharks
After an emotion fuelled round one matchup against the despicable Storm, round two sees a much more neutral opponent arrive on the doorway to the west as the Cronulla Sharks prepare for a trip to CommBank Stadium. There just isn’t…
The Preview – Round 1, 2023: Eels vs Storm
Like most Parramatta Eels fans, I hate the Melbourne Storm. From the salary cap cheating that makes the great 2009 Parramatta run a “what could have been” to the scores of grubby footballers they have produced, for well over a…