I am not feeling season 2022. Maybe it’s the impending departures and team shake-up after many years of squad stability. Maybe it’s being worn down from years of being close but not quite there, of club-wide issues that remain unresolved…
From The Stands – July 5, 2022: Filling The Glass
Is the Parramatta glass half full or half empty? I’ve decided that the glass is half full and that the Eels, with the support of us as fans, can fill it back up. I choose to believe that our run of…
The Spotlight – July 4, 2022: The Eels Sit At The 2022 Crossroads
I don’t enjoy writing critical posts. It’s far too easy to fire reactionary shots after a loss, and all of us have different takes shaped by our own biases, prior knowledge and understandings. As a Parramatta supporter with a platform I…
Post Game Grades – Round 16 vs Rabbitohs
Parramatta Eels 12 Souths 30 Nobody drowned out there, so that’s something I suppose. The rest of the good relates to my watching this game on replay after going out for dinner, so I could watch the last 20…
The Preview – Round 16, 2022: Eels vs Rabbitohs
When the 2022 draw came out, the round 15-16 double is the one I circled as the test of where the Parramatta Eels are at compared to years gone by. You could set your watch to an Eels hiding at…
Stats That Matta – Round 15, 2022: Eels Roll Roosters
ROUND 15, 2022 NRL TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP SATURDAY JUNE 18, 2022 EELS 26 defeated ROOSTERS 16 COMMBANK STADIUM Crowd: 21,757 What a turn around for the Eels from that Round 14 humiliation. The team wanted to show that they are…
From The Stands – June 21, 2022: Praise (Warren Smith Approval Pending)
I could dedicate this entire post to praising the Blue and Gold Army for their support of the Eels at CommBank Stadium on Saturday night. Over 21 thousand fans packed into the stands on a cold winter evening, just five…
Post Game Grades – Round 15 vs Roosters
Parramatta Eels 26 Sydney Roosters 16 How about that? What a brilliant game of footy. The first half delivered end-to-end attacking football as the Parramatta Eels channelled the energy of 2001 and offloaded at will to score some spectacular…
The Spotlight – June 18, 2022: Just Do It
At what point do we stop reflecting on the holiday Monday massacre? That question kept turning over in my mind after a number of false starts writing this column. It’s been a hard loss to casually put in the rear…
The Preview – Round 15, 2022: Eels vs Roosters
Understandably, I haven’t really got the preview in me this week. Studying the opposition, analysing what went wrong last week, it all feels a bit of a waste of time when the result is going to come down to one…