Eels in the media

[hineyrulz]

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Can some of you experts let Ryles know how good player options are?? He said we aren’t using them going forward, let the poor Noob know ffs!!

The Storm have them. The Tigers don’t. Let that sink in.

 

[JokerEel]

Remember guys the club did the right thing and we are not really coming 2nd last possibly last by the end of the season...

 

[the phantom menace]

You are again deflecting from providing a source for your repeated claim that NRL clubs offer player options (only to some players) for no benefit to the club.

That is not what I have claimed singularly or repeated, and you know it. Your claims about player options and their supposed direct cash/cap savings have been rampant across many threads without evidence or source.

All I have done is question your claims and assertions - particularly your specific claim here that Brown would have cost us more without the option for 2026, than if it was just a straight contract to end 2025.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Remember guys the club did the right thing and we are not really coming 2nd last possibly last by the end of the season...

If you can demonstrate how player options for 2026 have caused this year’s problems, we’re all ears.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

That is not what I have claimed singularly or repeated, and you know it. Your claims about player options and their supposed direct cash/cap savings have been rampant across many threads without evidence or source.

All I have done is question your claims and assertions - particularly your specific claim here that Brown would have cost us more without the option for 2026, than if it was just a straight contract to end 2025.

Reduced contract values are the only possible reason clubs agree to them. Unless you have an alternative explanation.

Forget about the Eels for a second. You people are far too emotional to consider the club rationally. You’ve repeatedly asserted that POs are poor business. Why would ANY OTHER NRL CLUB agree to a player option?

 

[EelEtric]

Reduced contract values are the only possible reason clubs agree to them. Unless you have an alternative explanation.

Forget about the Eels for a second. You people are far too emotional to consider the club rationally. You’ve repeatedly asserted that POs are poor businesses. Why would ANY OTHER NRL CLUB agree to a player option?

This is what I have been asking for 24 hours and haven't yet got answer for.
f**kers better not tell you.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

This is what I have been asking for 24 hours and haven't yet got answer for.
f**kers better not tell you.

They know. They’re just too ashamed to admit it.

 

[JokerEel]

This is what I have been asking for 24 hours and haven't yet got answer for.
f**kers better not tell you.

No you are trying to get us to believe that player options are fine for us.

Player Options are f**king stupid especially when you give them over multiple years.

 

[EelEtric]

No you are trying to get us to believe that player options are fine for us.

Player Options are f**king stupid especially when you give them over multiple years.

No I am trying to work out why they are bad for us - I want them to be bad, I don't want them to be good.
All the smart posters on here and Paul Gallen think they are bad so I am just trying to understand why so I can fit in (and why it isnt bad when Melbourne use them but it is when we use them).

 

[Pazza]

why it isnt bad when Melbourne use them but it is when we use them).

cause melboune only have three players on options for the 2026 season, a star player in grant, a back up in Wishart and a aging prop in welch. so a total cap value of just over a million? which is huge for them cause after this offseason its just solomona with a option in 2028.

Parramatta on the other hand have Brown, Matterson, Penisini, Lane and Sivo all on options for 2026. representing around 2.5 million or so on the cap. then in 2027 and 2028 we have moses and then again in 2029 we have dylan again if he activates his first option. there is no other team in the comp that has so much money tied up in options than the eels.

its not the options, if we only had say Brown, Russell and makatoa on options it wouldnt be a big deal. but we have a few star players year on year with options which is going to make it hard to recruit. We already got stung offering Blaize a option and its left a sour taste.

a lot of teams offer options to players, a lot of teams dont but no one in the nrl has the sheer quantity of them like the parramatta eels atm.

and ill say its interesting Lomax and Simonsons deals seem to not have options. very keen to see the Iongi deal if it happens

 

[JokerEel]

No I am trying to work out why they are bad for us - I want them to be bad, I don't want them to be good.
All the smart posters on here and Paul Gallen think they are bad so I am just trying to understand why so I can fit in (and why it isnt bad when Melbourne use them but it is when we use them).

Melbourne Up here

















Eels down here


Pretty easy to figure out the difference.

 

[JokerEel]

Gus has said PO are stupid

How many POs do the dogs have?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

cause melboune only have three players on options for the 2026 season, a star player in grant, a back up in Wishart and a aging prop in welch. so a total cap value of just over a million? which is huge for them cause after this offseason its just solomona with a option in 2028.

Parramatta on the other hand have Brown, Matterson, Penisini, Lane and Sivo all on options for 2026. representing around 2.5 million or so on the cap. then in 2027 and 2028 we have moses and then again in 2029 we have dylan again if he activates his first option. there is no other team in the comp that has so much money tied up in options than the eels.

its not the options, if we only had say Brown, Russell and makatoa on options it would be a big deal. but we have a few star players year on year with options which is going to make it hard to recruit. We already got stung offering Blaize a option and its left a sour taste.

a lot of team soffer options to players, a lot of teams dont but no one in the nrl has the sheer quantity of them like the parramatta eels atm.

and ill say its interesting Lomax and Simonsons deals seem to not have options. very keen to see the Iongi deal if it happens

How many players did we have on options this year? More than the Tigers?

 

[Suitman]

They know. They’re just too ashamed to admit it.

You are so smart. Smarter than anyone else.
All power to you.
Thanks for educating us all.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

If you can demonstrate how player options for 2026 have caused this year’s problems, we’re all ears.

Exactly. It's not player options, it's incompetence. We've changed one cog in the machine, I'd change more but we won't know if one change was enough for another 2-3 years.

 

[Pazza]

How many players did we have on options this year? More than the Tigers?

One with blaize maybe haze aswell. I haven't looked at the Tigers cause I don't really care what their organisational philosophy is.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Gus has said PO are stupid

How many POs do the dogs have?

Dogs have had 1 good year, let's settle it down a bit on holding them as the benchmark. Last year it was the warriors and coach Webster. Year before that it was coach payten.

 

[hineyrulz]

You are so smart. Smarter than anyone else.
All power to you.
Thanks for educating us all.

I just hope he lets that dope Ryles know.

If only he had an advisor half as smart.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Gus has said PO are stupid

How many POs do the dogs have?

How many do the Storm have?