Eels in the media

[Poupou Escobar]

Melbourne Up here

















Eels down here


Pretty easy to figure out the difference.

Where are the Tigers and how many do they have? Is it possible there’s zero correlation between POs and team performance?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

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

It’s not that I’m smart, it’s the rest of you that are dumdums. Parroting Phil Gould talking points as though he doesn’t have an agenda, or lapping up Gallen’s rants like he’s some rugby league genius.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

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

You’ll never understand the game if you only examine the Eels.

 

[JokerEel]

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.

Webster and Payton are crap coaches I have said it all along

 

[Pazza]

You’ll never understand the game if you only examine the Eels.

You'll never understand the game if you think everything the Parramatta Eels do is the right thing

 

[Suitman]

It’s not that I’m smart,

You got that bit right.

 

[Suitman]

You'll never understand the game if you think everything the Parramatta Eels do is the right thing

Oh dear. Stop encouraging him.

 

[Suitman]

I just hope he lets that dope Ryles know.

If only he had an advisor half as smart.

Pou is the smartest. Don't you ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[Pazza]

Oh dear. Stop encouraging him.

This is what the forum has become..... I don't know what else to do in here lol

 

[Suitman]

This is what the forum has become..... I don't know what else to do in here lol

Just ignore the argumentative prick. It's simple.

 

[Pazza]

Just ignore the argumentative prick. It's simple.

I've ignored plenty, more than half of the posts I get quoted in, I don't bother replying.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You'll never understand the game if you think everything the Parramatta Eels do is the right thing

*wrong

 

[the phantom menace]

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

Don't mind me, just asking your evidence or source for your claim.

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?

I have forgotten about the Eels, and am not emotional in the slightest.

I still contend (personal opinion) that the benefits to a club of giving out player options do not outweigh the problems they cause.

 

[the phantom menace]

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).

Is this Emjaycee's new alt, by any chance...?

 

[Legal Eel]

You’ll never understand the game if you only examine the Eels.

It’s pretty simple really - player options haven’t worked for us.

regardless of whether they work for other clubs or who else does them, they have proved problematic for us and have f**ked our cap, so we need to avoid them.

as a parallel, cheating the cap allowed the dogs and storm each to build squads that they could retain to win a comp within two years - we only built a squad that won spoons! For that reason cheating wasn’t beneficial to us and couldn’t be repeated, regardless of the success others experienced.

plain and simple, it has f**ked our cap so it has not been a successful strategy FOR PARRAMATTA

cue the Pou trolling logic, the Gronk stupidity and emjaycees blind defence…

 

[JokerEel]

Fairly sure I'll listen to a guy who works at a club ala Gould compared to some scrub on a forum..


Wait I have heard this before

 

[JokerEel]

Also has Moses and Brown accepted their PO for 26 yet or are they going to wait as long as they can in 2025 to either accept them or not.. dragging it out causing the season to be derailed.

Would be a shame if they waited till May then decided against it..

Give the club 6-7 months before the pre season to get replacements.. How awesome

 

[Avenger]

It’s not that I’m smart, it’s the rest of you that are dumdums. Parroting Phil Gould talking points as though he doesn’t have an agenda, or lapping up Gallen’s rants like he’s some rugby league genius.

I picked the eventual 14th immortal. I demand some respect.

 

[Sensei Cobra]

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.

Next year it’ll be Rylesy

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Don't mind me, just asking your evidence or source for your claim.

It’s just logic. Everything costs money. Nothing is free, including player/club options. What sort of source would even exist for that?

I have forgotten about the Eels, and am not emotional in the slightest.

I still contend (personal opinion) that the benefits to a club of giving out player options do not outweigh the problems they cause.

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