Mitchell Moses, a standout player for the Parramatta Eels, said he felt “helpless” watching from the sidelines as Brad Arthur, his mentor and coach of the previous seven and a half years, was fired by the team.
Moses defeated the Cronulla Sharks, who were in first place, with a masterful effort on his return to the field on Thursday night. But when Moses and the Eels celebrated their first win in almost two months, one of the most significant figures in the halfback’s football career was conspicuously absent.
Brad Arthur was fired last week by the Eels, who had sent him to the 2022 Grand Final. Brad Arthur had struggled to make the finals the previous season and had lost seven of his ten games.
When Moses and Arthur joined the Eels in 2017 from the Wests Tigers, their bond was not only strong on the rugby league field but considerably more so off it.
Moses remarked of Arthur’s sacking, “It was really hard, especially with what happened.””I was essentially powerless. The coach I’d had since joining the club, or for about seven years, in total.
He taught me a lot about football, and we had a great friendship.”Without him, I doubt I would be the player I am today, and it was difficult to watch from the sidelines, helpless, unable to offer any assistance, and then to witness what transpired.
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