Last week’s insipid performance was about it for me for season 2025, and the remaining weeks are going through the motions before hope can officially spring for 2026. It has been a brutal year, punctuated only by the belief that…
NRLW Preview – Round 8, 2025: Eels vs Roosters
The Sydney Roosters will be out to underline their premiership credentials when they face our Parramatta Eels this Saturday afternoon. The Tricolours have been the form sides of the competition in 2025, sitting undefeated at the top of the table.…
NRLW Preview – Round 9, 2024: Eels vs Roosters
The final match of the NRLW regular season features the Parramatta Eels and the Sydney Roosters, and there is a lot at stake as both sides have finals goals that they are yet to achieve. The Eels need to win…
The Preview – Round 24, 2024: Eels vs Roosters
It’s funny how a team you’ve given up on can still hurt you so much, but the 2024 Parramatta Eels managed it last week by teasing, basically delivering the king of all upsets, then flittering it away with perhaps the…
The Preview – Round 15, 2024: Eels vs Roosters
Seeing the Sydney Roosters coming up on the schedule rarely elicits much excitement from Parramatta fans. While I’m not going through the stats to prove it (under my “refuse to put more effort into the preview than the team puts…
NRLW Preview – Round 7, 2023: Eels vs Roosters
The payoff for bringing in young talented players such as Lindsay Tui and new recruit Noaria Kapua was evident in the Eels impressive victory over the Cowboys. Not only have the Eels unearthed emerging stars who have been instrumental in the…
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 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 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…
The Preview – Round 10, 2022: Eels vs Roosters
It’s been a pretty good week to be an Eels fan. Finally getting over Penrith after a few close shaves, to complete the “contender double” on their own turf. Breaking another record streak, just for the fun of it. Triggering…