The article below is written by By Steve Mascord in todays Sunday Telegraph. It highlights the predicament of one of Parramatta's up and coming players Blake Green. He is young player who ha come through the Parramatta's junior teams, won premierships with the Premier League side, played in the same teams as Tim Smith & Jarryd Hayne, and has come out and publically stated he loves Parramatta and wants to play for the club for the rest of his life.

He has bucketloads of talent, a ready made combination with Tim Smith in the halves and a love for the club. Whoever is in charge of recruitment down at the Eels, whether it be the coach, CEO, recruitment officer, Board of Directors, whoever you / they are, this player, needs to retained.

One mistake has already been made by recruiting Brett Finch, lets not make another by letting this guy go. Find the money and a spot for him in the team if need be and lets keep this player for another 10 years. As a Parramatta supporter I am fed up with the club letting go of promising youngsters only to see them flourish at other clubs. The list over the 10 years is very long, don't let Blake Green be another player who 3 years from now we are all saying, "Gee we should have kept him...".

Make an effort, keep this guy, make the club strong through the juniors and stop recruiting over hyped, expensive rejects.

Eels rookie in shop window

PARRAMATTA Eels unveiled a 20-year-old five-eighth destined to be one of the NRL's hottest properties as they ran seven tries past a listless Canberra last night.

With Nathan Hindmarsh dashing 60 metres for the longest try of his senior career, the Eels embarrassed the Raiders.

But the talk was about debutants, five-eighth Blake Green and centre Krisnan Inu.
Green, a Hills District junior, revealed he was not contracted beyond 2007.

"Hopefully I can pick up a spot somewhere else, if not here," Green said.

"I'm passionate about the place. I love living in the Parramatta area and I'd love to play for Parramatta for the rest of my life.

"But I want to play first grade, so wherever I can get a position, I'm happy to play there."

With so many clubs searching for a halfback, the Eels youngster could be sitting on a pot of gold if he can impress this season.

His manager Isaac Moses said: "Manly were interested before and a couple of other clubs have just kept tabs with him.

"He wants to play NRL and if he can't do it here then he's willing to look at places where he can."
Five days after capturing the competition's imagination with a shock win against Newcastle, the Raiders started strongly. But when Hindmarsh took a 12th-minute hit-up on his 40-metre line and ran through the teeth of their forwards, it was game over.

Canberra captain Alan Tongue said referee Gavin Badger called second rower Neville Costigan offside before Hindmarsh waltzed through.