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I gotta give it up to DA...

shiznit

Coach
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hey guys...
just wanted to say congrats on the massive season this season... i know its probably a week too late but theres a reason for it...

first off... let me just say... im a big Parra fan. have been since i was 8yrs old. even when the Warriors came i stuck with Parra. i like the Warriors but i pretty much bleed blue & gold. i watch every single game that Parra play and ALWAYS go out to watch them play when there here in NZ.

but im ashamed to say that at the start of this season i was ripping the club off... in fact i came in here and ripped into DA numerous times about various things like moving Hayne to 5/8 and giving finch the boot. id never been critical of the Eels before but for some reason i just gave it to DA this season.

ive since seen that i was way wrong... DA is a good coach. sure he made a few mistakes at the Warriors... but i actually think hes a far better coach now than he was then... and IMO he was the best coach the Warriors ever had.

for that reason when the tide turned and the Eels started to string wins together i thought it wouldn't be right of me to come in here and share the joy with all you guys...

now the season is over i just wanted to come in and say well done to the team... and the club as a whole. this season we've seen the first grade squad really mature and start to play to its potential. and we also saw the back of Fitzy... and there just seems to be a far better feeling about the club with Ozzy in charge.

Im really looking forward to next season... heres hoping they can go one better and give Hindy, Caylo & Burty the premiership they truly deserve!!
 

hineyrulz

Post Whore
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We had an amazing season, hers hoping we go one better in 2010. DA is a brilliant coach, so glad we have him.
 

lil_eel

Juniors
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hey guys...
just wanted to say congrats on the massive season this season... i know its probably a week too late but theres a reason for it...

first off... let me just say... im a big Parra fan. have been since i was 8yrs old. even when the Warriors came i stuck with Parra. i like the Warriors but i pretty much bleed blue & gold. i watch every single game that Parra play and ALWAYS go out to watch them play when there here in NZ.

but im ashamed to say that at the start of this season i was ripping the club off... in fact i came in here and ripped into DA numerous times about various things like moving Hayne to 5/8 and giving finch the boot. id never been critical of the Eels before but for some reason i just gave it to DA this season.

ive since seen that i was way wrong... DA is a good coach. sure he made a few mistakes at the Warriors... but i actually think hes a far better coach now than he was then... and IMO he was the best coach the Warriors ever had.

for that reason when the tide turned and the Eels started to string wins together i thought it wouldn't be right of me to come in here and share the joy with all you guys...

now the season is over i just wanted to come in and say well done to the team... and the club as a whole. this season we've seen the first grade squad really mature and start to play to its potential. and we also saw the back of Fitzy... and there just seems to be a far better feeling about the club with Ozzy in charge.

Im really looking forward to next season... heres hoping they can go one better and give Hindy, Caylo & Burty the premiership they truly deserve!!

Hey i started suporting the eels when i was 8 as well. hehehe. Hopefully 2010 will be a good yr and not a disappointment like 08
 

half

Coach
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i hope we never win because losing builds character and winning doesn't. this is especially true for the youth. look at all canberra raiders fans in their 20s - completely unlikeable people just because the raiders won when they were growing up. if parra starts winning we'll have a generation of jerks supporting our team in a few years. i would rather be a good person with a strong character than see the eels win
 

strider

Post Whore
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i'm waiting for ron to come out and fess up to being a whiny bitch before we signed DA
 

Bigfella

Coach
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i hope we never win because losing builds character and winning doesn't. this is especially true for the youth. look at all canberra raiders fans in their 20s - completely unlikeable people just because the raiders won when they were growing up. if parra starts winning we'll have a generation of jerks supporting our team in a few years. i would rather be a good person with a strong character than see the eels win

Gee you have been away for a while haven't you halfy?
 

parra pete

Referee
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Kearney I think, but I could be wrong

Ken Kearney was the 1962 coach who piloted the Parramatta side into its first ever final series. Was RJ talking about "Killer"? One of the ALL time GREATS



Ken Kearney
Rugby league captain-coach


Kenneth Howard Kearney, rugby league player and coach: born Penrith, New South Wales 3 May 1924; married (two sons, one daughter); died Gold Coast, Queensland 18 August 2006.

Ken Kearney was the guiding force behind the most successful club side in the history of rugby league. Even more so than the Wigan team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Australian club St George dominated the game in their country, winning 11 domestic titles in a row from 1956 to 1966.

The inspiration that made such dominance possible came from England - via Kearney. Originally a rugby union hooker with the Parramatta club in Sydney, he played seven Tests for the Wallabies before being demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force and turning professional with Leeds in 1948.

He hardly looked the part. Described as a "slow, tubby figure in long, baggy shorts", Kearney - quickly nicknamed "Killer" - belied his appearance with his agile rugby brain, allied with the then essential ability to win the ball from the game's many scrums. He spent three years with Leeds, soaking up tactical and coaching knowledge from a British game that was still well ahead of its equivalent in Australia at that stage.

When he returned home it was to play for the St George club, where he was appointed captain-coach in 1953, introducing the so-called "brick wall" defence that was the foundation of their success.

Although replaced as coach by Norm Tipping, because of his perceived abrasiveness, Kearney was the guiding influence on the field when the Dragons won the first of their historic 11 Grand Finals. He was reinstated for 1957 and was captain-coach for their next six victories, until a chronic knee injury forced his retirement as a player in 1962.

By then, too, Kearney had played 25 rugby league Tests for Australia, touring Britain and France in 1952-53 and 1956-57, as well as playing in two World Cups. On the second of those Kangaroo tours, and also in New Zealand in 1956, he was in the leadership role he relished, as captain-coach.

"Perhaps no other player in the game's history has ever had such a profound influence on a single club as him," said the chairman of the Australian Rugby League, Colin Love:

He possessed a brilliant tactical understanding of the game and it was Ken who devised the blueprint that made St George virtually unbeatable.

The club's policy of combining the coaching and captaincy roles meant that Kearney left in 1963 when he could no longer play, coaching Parramatta to their most successful season since entering the competition. It was at St George, though, that he stamped his formidable personality on a team, making them the hardest side to beat that the code has ever seen.

Dave Hadfield

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ken-kearney-413410.html

Killer Kearney actually came to the Club in 1962....NOT 1963 as stated in the above article. Killer played Rugby Union with the Two Blues, and was part of a Wallaby front row comprising Eric Tweedale, Ken Kearney and Len Wolffe.
I played Rugby Union with Merrylands in the very early 60s, and Eric Tweedale was the coach...He has a bar named after him at Cumberland Oval (aka Parramatta Stadium)
 

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