With our Parramatta boys are set to field (on paper) their strongest squad in well over a decade in 2018 – one blessed with speed, strike, depth and one hell of an attitude. However, if you’re anything like me, the…
Eels Pre-season Training – NYC Match-Up (January 26, 2016)
It’s early morning on Australia Day, a day for kicking back in shorts and thongs, but the NRL and NYC squads are hard at work. Today, it’s two simultaneous opposed sessions which will give the coaches a good look at…
Eels Pre-season Training – Week 3 Overview and Opinion (January 2016)
This past week was surely a physical and psychological examination of the squad as first heat, then humidity, tested their limits. As the pre-season takes them ever closer to the first kick-off of the year, was it possible to demonstrate…
Eels Pre-Season Training – January 22: BA Fires Up
The heat was down a notch but sauna-like conditions greeted the squad for the early field session today. Arriving just after 8:30am, I caught the end of the first player group and the entire second group. The drills appeared to…
Eels Pre-Season Training – Taka Scorches The Field (January 21, 2016)
In conditions which could not have been measured by the old WSC Players’ Comfort Meter, the Parramatta players took to the fields for two skills and conditioning sessions. With a small gathering of interested spectators looking on, including TCT members,…
Eels Pre-season Training – Week 2 Overview and Opinion
As we moved into the second week of the new year, my expectations from Week 1 came into focus. I’ve been chomping at the bit to get a glimpse of the attacking combinations forming at the club and I finished…
Eels Pre-Season Training – The Team Heats Up (January 14, 2016)
Sweltering conditions again greeted the Parramatta squad as the team assembled at Old Saleyards for an early morning field session. Despite the oppressive heat, the players tackled their work in tremendous spirit. Conditioning and Skills The conditioning involved sets of…
Eels Pre-Season Training Report – Happy New Year (January 4, 2016)
The players returned to a wet Old Saleyards Reserve for the first training session of 2016. The structure of the morning training was as follows: 8am – Fitness – Beep tests and timed 1.2km run 11:30am : Skills session Observations…