Sandow won't quit on Eels
PRIZE Parramatta recruit Chris Sandow has pledged his commitment to the club despite the Eels' 0-4 horror start to the season.
After inking a four-year $2.2 million deal to join Parramatta, Sandow was seen as the high-profile playmaker capable of piloting the club into the play-offs.
Four games into the season, the Eels had to endure having 50 cent coins hurled on Parramatta Stadium after another inept display.
The Sunday Telegraph has been told Eels coach Stephen Kearney was stunned silent in the dressing room after the loss, simply asking the playing group to tell him what was wrong.
"It's not the coach, it's the players. We have to start turning up for each other," Sandow said.
"We have to come together as a group. We've been talking about it for a while.
"We are new as a team so we are still building - hopefully things will start coming sooner rather than later."
Asked if he'd been hit by any of the coins some members of the blue and gold supporter army had pelted, Sandow said: "No, I would have picked them up otherwise."
Eels prop Justin Poore admitted Parramatta fans had a right to be frustrated.
"I go home and I've got little kids saying what's wrong with you guys? What do you do - it's life, we've just got to dig ourselves out of it," Poore said.
"At the moment it's not a good place to be and everybody's disappointed but what do you do?
"It's tough. No one likes copping criticism but we deserve it and you've got to cop it on the chin.
"As I've said before we're the only ones who can fix the problem. We've got to go back to the drawing board.
"I don't have an answer, we just have to keep trying and be patient as a playing group."
Poore said coach Kearney had the full support of the Eels playing roster.
