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Eels in the media

hineyrulz

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Poupou Escobar said:
It was over a year ffs. He was a regular in the team until last June.
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Didn’t he re-sign late 21??? So hardly over a year. We all know what happened it’s a wonder any of us are still allowed to be fans after questioned little Jakey’s position in the team.
 
Poupou Escobar

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Which is not to say they weren’t trying to get rid of him within a few months, but he was at least a regular in first grade 13 months after re-signing.
 
King-Gutho94

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Well we clearly made a major stuff up in hindsight in 2021 to re-sign Nrown. He plays what a dozen games of that contract he signed.

That cap space for 2023 could have been vital in back end of 21 when we lost Mahoney and Papali'i in the space of a week if we didnt re-sign Nrown.
 
Johnny88

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Media Buzz: Ray Hadley whacks Parramatta Eels over resigning of Brad Arthur
Ray Hadley is no fan of Brad Arthur and the Parramatta Eels and the 2GB broadcaster didn’t miss with his latest salvo at the club, writes PHIL ROTHFIELD.

We have seen some horrible feuds between media figures and NRL clubs over the years but few as bitter as 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley and the Parramatta Eels.
Speaking on Mark Levy’s 2GB show last week, Hadley slammed the club over coach Brad Arthur’s contract extension for a further 12 months.
“The CEO (Jim Sarantinos) must be a complete dill,” he said.
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“How does the club justify this to their legion of fans? He hasn’t won a premiership; he’s been there longer than anyone in the joint. I just don’t think he’s much of a coach. This isn’t about bashing Parramatta but every year they sign Brad Arthur they’re a further year away from winning a comp.”
We approached Sarantinos for a response.
“I’m comfortable the club is in a better spot now than when I started in my role in 2019,” he said
“We played in the finals in the first two years then a grand final.
“And the club is performing well financially and off the field.”

 
Johnny88

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The Parramatta Eels can write off their 2023 chances if they lose to the Panthers next week
The Parramatta Eels are one loss away from reaching the point of no return, writes Brent Read, providing their round four opponents and greatest rivals with even more motivation.

Matterson is believed to be on a contract worth about $600,000 a season. At worst, the Eels will play 24 games. Let’s say Parramatta pay Matterson roughly $25,000 a game.
The fine - $4,000 - was a drop in the ocean. Parramatta are run by money men. Chair Sean McElduff was a banker. Chief executive Jim Sarantinos a former consultant and partner at finance company Ferrier Hodgson.
Surely they could see the folly in allowing Matterson to sit out three games rather than hand over what amounts to a rounding error for the back rower. If not them, then coach Brad Arthur should have had a word. Hindsight is 20-20 but sometimes that’s all we have got.
So Matterson will return but the bad news is that it won’t matter unless they fix up their defence. The Eels are conceding points for fun, a far cry from last season when they went all the way to the final weekend of the season.
They leaked another 34 points on Thursday night against Manly, the soft nature of some of the Sea Eagles’ tries suggesting Penrith could pile on the points yet again unless Parramatta can find some starch.

That job falls to Arthur, who had his contract extended by another year earlier this week despite the abject way they have started their year.
Arthur had some clauses in his contract that automatically triggered an extra year - he hadn’t met all of them but the club took a leap of faith anyway, pointing to Parramatta’s record over the past four years.
That period coincides with the completion of a review into their football department. Since then, Arthur has turned the Eels into perennial finalists and McElduff insisted he had done enough to warrant a new deal.
“The short story is we reckon he deserves it and if you think about it, if you don’t extend him, it gives rise to the continued speculation about him (Arthur),” McElduff said.
If you have that continued speculation, it gets even worse. You’re not making decisions based on two or three games, you are making it through a three or four year period.
“That is the rationale. We know it is bumpy at the moment but we are not making short term decisions.
“We did our footy review in 2018 and we have given him what we believe he needs to do his job properly.
“I think his performance over the last four years has been really good. We didn’t win last year but we got there.
“That’s my logic and my perspective. And that’s why he got what he got. He still has to perform and get results but he has some clear air to do that.”
That air will be a little less clearer unless Arthur can find a way to extract some revenge for last year’s grand final.

 
hybrideel

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Happy MEel said:
Hard to argue with any of this.

www.zerotackle.com

Arthur's "lack of concentration" comment pulls at deeper Eels' problem

The Eels have a problem, but is the fix as simple as a change of tactics from the coaches box?
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Wait, did we win the GF last year?

Last year's grand finalists would have been hoping to hit the ground running this year to move on from last year's premiership decider defeat at the hands of the Parramatta Eels, but they have done anything but.
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Poupou Escobar

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Johnny88 said:
You’re not making decisions based on two or three games, you are making it through a three or four year period.
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3YRWR!
That air will be a little less clearer
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ffs
unless Arthur can find a way to extract some revenge for last year’s grand final.
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Revenge isn’t for professional organisations, it’s for dopey customers of rugby league journos.
 
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the phantom menace

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"...unless Arthur can find a way for his side to extract a win in their Round 4 match-up with Penrith."

Essentially the same valid (underlying) point...
 
Poupou Escobar

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Well the chances of winning or losing are both non-zero, so either result would tell us nothing at all about Arthur's coaching ability. You would need to look at a much larger sample than a single round four match, or even the first four games of the season. They are tiny samples. We have won four games in a row before just as we have lost four in a row. So has Ivan Cleary, who lost six straight in 2019. It didn't mean he couldn't coach, and losing on Thursday would be equally meaningless for Brad Arthur.
 
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