Hey,

I will be in touch asap (tomorrow most likely). Do you have any of the contacts of these people still by any chance? But so far some interesting stories there...

Thanks Ace.

ok i own up ,we were among the small band of fans that turned up at basildon ru ground.we were made very welcome by said scouser,boss hogg if i remember correctly.
i remember traipsing across fields and the dual carriageway to a field marked out for rl when their pitch was unavailable .the only facility available was an enormous tree which the crowd(?) and players shared at half time for a jimmy.
it was basic but we loved it.being so close to the action i could feel the hits let alone hear them......i still have the shirt,a unique orange design.alas i cant find the programmes or cap anywhere. if someone out there starts another eels team count us in............great fun

I tell you what...I know some tales about the Essex Eels that would bend your bones. I played for them as a second rower when I lived down in Brentwood.

My best memory was when we played the Kabul Afghans away on a cold wet windy Saturday night. The team bus broke down 6 times between Brentwood and Dover, 4 times across Pakistan and then when we finally made it to Afghanistan the driver (our full back Rampaging Rick Richards) drove over a landmine and killed 6 of the team.

Needless to say we lost the game 216 - 1 (I slotted over a field goal in the second stanza) and had to walk home.

The following week we had another away fixture, this time against the Vancouver Vikings. On the way there Nobby Jenkins got humped by a moose and the rest of the team were eaten by a bear.

I carried on and single handedly won the game for the team 456- 0.

I retired soon afterwards.

There is a place at Broadmoor for You!!!!

I have a few contacts still..I'll try and dig them up... but I'm sure I can fill you in about most the goings on the season Essex Eels played in NL3

Pete Zatoppin..your a douche

Do you suffer from erectile problems?

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stop teasing us.....just do it!

I saw Essex Eels a couple of times against my local club South London Storm. The first time was at Storm’s Brigstock Road ground in NL3. Eels had been hyped as a new club with a big future and turned up in a very smart orange & navy kit, but were bottom of the table and Souths easily beat their rather young and inexperienced looking side. I think this was probably the 2004 season, or maybe a year earlier.

Next time I saw them was an away match in May 2006 at a ground on the outskirts of Romford. Both teams were now competing in the RLC Premier, of which Souths would go on to win the National Final against East Lancashire Lions that year. This was certainly the last season of Essex, in fact I’m not sure they even completed the season. Their team looked a sorry state, a combination of 40 year old forwards and skinny youths who looked like they’d rather be somewhere else, in a grubby old white kit that was clearly several years old. I suspect there was at least one father & son pair in the side. However, the player I most remember was a shaven headed, fit-looking bloke of about 30. He was their sole interchange at the start of the match and was drinking a pint of lager during the first half and chatting to mates on the touchline. I heard him say “I don’t even like this game, I’m a footballer”. When he came on his first attempt to tackle an opponent consisted of swinging a right hook at his head as he ran past! Fortunately he only landed a glancing blow. The ref should have sent him off there and then, he was a total headcase. I could easily visualise him playing football on Hackney Marshes on a Sunday morning, fetching a baseball bat from the boot of his XR3i after a bad tempered defeat. At one point one of his young team mates was knocked to the floor and winded and our man ran to the touchline, picked up his half finished pint of lager and “hilariously” poured it into the poor lad’s mouth to “revive” him, almost choking him in the process.

Fortunately the Souths players had enough nous to avoid getting hurt by this individual’s ridiculously dangerous and inept challenges. Then he got the ball on the wing, put his head down and ran with it. He was tackled a cuple of yards inside the touchline and half the Souths team piled into the tackle and literally threw him into touch! An obvious foul, but it was funny to see him get a taste of his own medicine.

what a disgraceful little mag RL world is. top 10 worst expansion teams. much better read would be top 22 pioneering teams that broke away From the old ways to set up an exciting attacking game but then sat on their backsides for 100 years telling each other how great they were while the rest of the sporting world overtook them.

I played for Brentwood Elvers, the youth team from Essex Eels which is still running but has low support. Which is causing me to go to a different club because of lack of players for matches. The club could have potential but yawnion dominates the area

Quite right, would not touch it with a bargepole. A patheitic lazy piece of journalism.

You would have thought Rugby League World would talk the game up as opposed to slagging it off.

I meant to say why does Carlisle not feature in the 10 failures ?
Oh of course they are from the North.

Prince of Denmark...the man you are referring to is Leeroy Brown...yes he was the baddest man in the whole dam town, that town being Romford, so you had to be pretty bad to earn such a title! A trained professional mixed martial artist with a flair for violence..he was the rose amongst are bed of weeds.. the guy no one on the opposition wanted to with which was very nessersary the whippings we took. Sadly, Leeroy didnt travel well and only played in a handful of home games, rumour has it he was on tag!

You really couldnt write this could you