Eels coach torches 'agenda' after huge finals win

Parramatta manager Brad Arthur has fired backmost astatine detractors - saying that rumours of backroom turmoil had not adjacent crossed the team's radar.

"I reckon we showed however it affected the group," helium said successful notation to the Eels' crushing 40-4 triumph implicit the Raiders.

Leaked findings from an interior reappraisal alleged a civilization of nepotism and problems with lines of connection successful younker development, among different issues.

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"Someone's got an agenda, and they're not going to interruption it," Arthur said.

"There's immoderate idiosyncratic interest, and whoever's got the agenda, you're not going to interruption this group. We've worked excessively hard."

Captain Clint Gutherson praised the resilience of his teammates, echoing his coach's sentiments.

"As Brad said, not galore things volition interruption america arsenic a group," helium said.

Eels manager Brad Arthur speaks to reporters aft their semi-final win. (Nine)

"To beryllium capable to enactment that show successful aft the past 24 hours, which I don't adjacent cognize wherever it came from, it's precise pleasing."

Arthur, who has led the squad to a preliminary last for the archetypal clip since helium joined successful 2014, said that specified was the Eels' myopic absorption for the task astatine hand, that the leaks had not adjacent been spoken about.

"The happening is, I've got the assurance successful that group, and I cognize precisely what's successful that dressing shed and didn't adjacent consciousness the request to speech to anyone astir it."

Despite Parramatta's coagulated signifier nether Arthur barring a disastrous 2018 campaign, calls regarding his aboriginal person ne'er gone distant - a puzzling communicative erstwhile you see the Eels person made the finals successful 5 of the past six years.

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"We've dealt with plentifulness successful the past - it's lone a mates of years agone we had different dramas," Arthur said.

"We didn't adjacent code it, we didn't speech astir it. It's thing we can't control, and it's rubbish. The boys conscionable privation to spell and person a spot of amusive and play for each other, and that's what they're doing."

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Arthur's tenure astatine the nine is present the joint-third-longest successful the NRL on with tonight's counterpart Ricky Stuart, and lone down Craig Bellamy and Trent Robinson.

He conceded that possibly a fewer years agone the outer sound would person got to him.

"When I archetypal started coaching, I decidedly would person disquieted astir it oregon bought into it oregon had immoderate commentary astir it," helium said.

Now, he's not disquieted astir thing different than a chartered formation to Townsville to combat for a expansive last place. 

"We've got thing to lose," helium said of the travel north.

"Just spell aft the game, that's our strength.

"Maybe we built the crippled up excessively overmuch against Penrith and that comes backmost to me, truthful I request to deterioration that, but astatine the extremity of time we've got an accidental adjacent week and we're going to spell aft it."

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