Maybe a new coach, But It's a team with very little depth and the signings of Chris Hicks and Whatuira were musts, not necessarily the players but their activity for depth was a necessity. Also very little half options and the slowly but surely derailing of the Hayne Train leaves them with no real attacking potency. There forward pack has some talent but it's simply too in-experienced. The likes of Justin Horo & Tim Mannah both are talented but lack the experience with their only real experienced forward being Nathan Hindmarsh with Ben Smith failing to step up at this point in time. An absolute rabble of a football side.

South Sydney showed improvement last night but there lack there-of structure in attack and there lazy goal-line defence is still a massive worry. Potential gold mine playing the left hand flank with Taylor, Inglis, Sutton & Talanoa with Wesser at the back was on show last night but you got to ask yourself what defence did Parra put up for the night?. Two players with 5 first grade games between them trying to stop two Origin Players, One being one of the best players in the world and was voted accordingly in 2009 but both of them are monsters to stop one or two on one.

The losses of Tahu & Grothe were one's of great loss to Parramatta. Tahu a dual-international troubled by racial row and personal problems and Grothe, an adequate finisher with power who fell to injury.

Half Daniel Mortimer still hasn't found what he had in 2009 though early in 2011 and Jeff Robson, maybe a standard nrl halfback simply doesn't have the experience and natural organisation to steer a side around.

Loss of arguably their best player Feleti Mateo also was something they didn't really stocktake for in 2011.

Last night was one of the worst games I've seen Jarryd Hayne play in quite some time and looked a passenger out there and very disinterested. Admittedly a good player it's hard to decifer whether the Hayne Train has derailed or the Parramatta train tracks are faulty. Hayne worth 600k according to the Eels isn't even showing half of that on his current form, It seems Parramatta put all their eggs in one basket and it didn't play off.

Stephen Kearney is a quality coach, was vice to Craig Bellamy for a few seasons and current NZ coach. But you have to ask? Do Parramatta have the worst roster on paper?.

I rate them, close to no chance of a finals birth and a wooden spoon contender.

I found the following pretty interesting:

- The Eels lost to the Panther last week... Panthers are currently getting belted by Cronulla.
- The Eels lost to the Rabbitohs last night... the Rabbits were beaten in round 1 and 2.

Gee whiz, how bad must the Eels be to have both Penrith and South Sydney beat them?

Parra won't get the spoon. In their first game they showed what they can do, it's all about getting back to basics and cutting the stupid stuff outta their game like trying to score on every play. Forwards lay the platform - they definitely have the pack to do so with Mannah, Moi Moi, Hindy, etc, but they do that, let Mortimer and Robson play their game and let Hayne feed off that, because he is undoubtedly their best player, but he sees too much of the ball.

they showed nothing against the warriors. nz were that bad they handed them the win

Yeh they did play an awful outfit, yet you have to win those games where you're handed easy ball non the less.
It's only Round 3, anyway

i think they got 3 tries from kicks 2 from dropped bombs ?

Where to for Penrith you mean..

If the Cowboys play anywhere close to how they played tonight, they will put 50 on Parra.

i love parra and i think there in trouble this year

Trouble indeed johnny. Judging by the laws of probabilities I think they are due for a shit year.

Good post thtr.

I think the Eels will finish just outside the 8 this year.

If Hayne and Sandow both fire they could become a very deadly combination but I can't see them clicking for quite sometime.

If they somehow scrape into the 8 they could definitely be the danger team like they were in 09.