Parramatta Eels Juniors

[Poupou Escobar]

How many of BA's recruits or favorites have now ended up in England just like Brad is now, in NSW Cup or just retired

All these players have played for us in the past 3 seasons.

You could almost put name a starting 17 with the lot no longer in the NRL

Asi, Sivo, Harper, Lumelume, JA, RCG, Lussick, Joffa, Momoisea, Cartwright, Hodgson, Hands, Grieg, Murchie

It's pretty normal to leave the NRL as players age. Half those merkins are over 30.

 

[Pazza]

BTW I haven't given up on W. Latu just yet. If he can stay injury free he is a smokie.
Shame Matalele hasn't kicked on. Just turned 23. Its probably make or break now but maybe just to late also

Latu is ona dev deal this year and top 30 for next from memory. Matele is top 30 this year only. Id say given the market atm a guy like matele will get a contract somewhere, his biggest issue is at parra we seem to have some nice options coming through.

But i like 22 or 23 years old to debut as a forward, means youve spent some time playing against men.

 

[hineyrulz]

Blamed them for what?

Global warming and the ice caps melting.

and season 8 of Game of Thrones ffs!!

 

[hindy111]

Latu is ona dev deal this year and top 30 for next from memory. Matele is top 30 this year only. Id say given the market atm a guy like matele will get a contract somewhere, his biggest issue is at parra we seem to have some nice options coming through.

But i like 22 or 23 years old to debut as a forward, means youve spent some time playing against men.

Lindsay Smith didn't become a consietent first grader untill age 23. It does happen.

 

[hindy111]

Global warming and the ice caps melting.

and season 8 of Game of Thrones ffs!!

After watching the 2nd time it really turned to shit after the battle of the bastards

 

[Twizzle]

who had the better league career Kent or Jeff Fenech?

Jeff Fenech never played first grade to my knowledge.

Kent had a booming first grade career of about 30 seconds.

 

[hineyrulz]

After watching the 2nd time it really turned to shit after the battle of the bastards

Once they got passed the book material the show suffered. And season 8 was a cluster f**k of epic proportions.

A knight of the seven kingdoms has been pretty good at least.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Lindsay Smith didn't become a consietent first grader untill age 23. It does happen.

Andrew Davey didn't play FG until he was 28.

He was so good we signed him twice.

 

[Gazzamatta]

After watching the 2nd time it really turned to shit after the battle of the bastards

Spoiler alert!
I still haven't got up to "The Walk of Shame" yet.

 

[JokerEel]

Andrew Davey didn't play FG until he was 28.

He was so good we signed him twice.

How the hell did he play 12 games for us in 2023....

 

[hineyrulz]

How the hell did he play 12 games for us in 2023....

Bad luck, plus being a small tin pot club with no resources.

 

[hineyrulz]

Spoiler alert!
I still haven't got up to "The Walk of Shame" yet.

 

[JokerEel]

Bewbs

 

[King-Gutho94]

How the hell did he play 12 games for us in 2023....

Well our recruitment was dogshit - Momoisea, Murchie for starters.

A coach who couldn't trust or have any faith/ability in developing juniors

Look at what hineyrulz said in July 2023.

3 blokes we signed mid-season that year were any of them success stories.

Took Ryles 5 seconds to realise the two still here were surplus to requirements

 

[King-Gutho94]

Bad luck, plus being a small tin pot club with no resources.

Just bad luck & unlucky we had blokes miss 24 games through suspension.

The coach said he never addressed it until the final game when we beat Penrith.

A bit late then to address the discipline in the squad i would have thought.

 

[hineyrulz]

Well our recruitment was dogshit - Momoisea, Murchie for starters.

A coach who couldn't trust or have any faith/ability in developing juniors

Look at what hineyrulz said in July 2023.

3 blokes we signed mid-season that year were any of them success stories.

Took Ryles 5 seconds to realise the two still here were surplus to requirements

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Well when you’re right you’re right.

 

[hindy111]

Spoiler alert!
I still haven't got up to "The Walk of Shame" yet.

Are you talking about @Poupou Escobar responses here?

Sorry Pou but I couldn't help myself.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well our recruitment was dogshit - Momoisea, Murchie for starters.

A coach who couldn't trust or have any faith/ability in developing juniors

He developed the juniors we lost at the end of 2022. The reason he didn’t trust ‘the juniors’ in 2023 is because there weren’t any. We had no pathways recruitment during Covid so there were f**k all with NRL potential that were ready for first grade until last year.

If you want to bring juniors into your NRL squad now, you need to start three years ago. It’s why we had so many around 2020 (when Arthur’s was the coach) and so few in 2023-24, when Arthur’s was still the coach.

 

[hineyrulz]

 

[Pazza]

what that person on your forum has is a medical disorder