Revealed: Eels’ $60m slice of rugby league Parra-dise
The Parramatta Eels have unveiled plans for a $60 million high-performance rugby league facility that will ensure the club remains a long-term powerhouse in Sydney’s west.
The Parramatta Eels have unveiled plans for a $60 million high-performance rugby league facility that will ensure the club remains a long-term powerhouse in Sydney’s west.
Rugby league’s monsters have had the last laugh on those who wanted to run them out of the game, the biggest of them all reveals how.
Parramatta is pushing to qualify for its first grand final in more than a decade and the last thing they need is this off-field distraction.
He ran Parra for 30 years, but Denis Fitzgerald, never liked the team’s logo and even planned club mergers just to ditch the famous eel.
A last place finish with just six wins on the board isn’t the sort of season you’d want to remember. But Mitch Moses has vowed he will use the hurt of Parramatta’s wooden spoon for good.
Corey Norman has denied he knows the elderly man filmed snorting cocaine in the controversial video, which the Dragons star said should serve as a warning for fellow NRL players.
St George Illawarra recruit Corey Norman has opened up on his departure from Parramatta, revealing the decision to force him out of the club didn’t come from coach Brad Arthur.
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Dylan Brown is expected to fill the vacant halves position at the Eels in 2019 and Mitchell Moses intends to guide the rookie with advice from his debut journey.
He is the Parramatta young gun taking SuperCoach by storm, having quadrupled in ownership and now in almost half of teams.
Michael Jennings could easily been wearing the red and blue of Newcastle this season were it not for some unfinished business that kept the 30-year-old flyer with Parramatta.
Leaving behind the reigning premiers for the perennial wooden spooners might get some players down — but not Parramatta’s new recruit Blake Ferguson.
Parramatta’s teenage playmaker Dylan Brown is likely to be a prime target in his first year of NRL football — luckily, the beefed-up Eels forward will be ready for it.
Former Queensland Origin player Billy Moore said he had reacted with “anger despair and embarrassment’’ to the code’s latest instance of alleged domestic violence.
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