Why Eels’ salary cap drama could be the ‘circuit breaker’ that ends decades of pain

“That was the circuit breaker,” Gurr told AAP this week.Watch the latest sport on Channel 7 or stream for free onSince their last title in 1986, some 407 players have run out for the Eels across 879 games, including their most-capped in Nathan Hindmarsh - 330 appearances - and the 36 who played in just one.

The club has churned through 10 coaches, 47 halfbacks, collected three wooden spoons, lost two grand finals and gone from scandal to scandal with near miss after near miss.“From 2009 they made a grand final but then Denis Fitzgerald left and the club clearly had a lot of problems,” Gurr, who was appointed as CEO after the salary-cap scandal, said.Between 2010 and 2015, Parramatta won just 48 of 120 games and failed to make the finals once.

Included in Donnelly’s revamp were the appointments of current chairman Sean McElduff and CEO Jim Sarantinos, who took over from Gurr at the end of 2019.Together, they set their sights on rebuilding trust and relationships with stakeholders, fixing their salary cap and drastically reducing their expenditure.The Eels made the top-four in 2017 under Brad Arthur, but were knocked out in the second week of the finals in a story that has become all too familiar for Parramatta fans.

In 2018 they collected the wooden spoon, with Arthur admitting this week he feared he would be sacked at the time.“He is a very good coach and we knew what had gone wrong. “He got us to fourth place in 2017. We addressed some roster needs. We needed to get younger and bigger. Junior Paulo returned, Shaun Lane joined us.“Whilst we were concerned, no one wants a season like 2018, the club was starting to be restructured in a good way.”

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