Parramatta coach insists he does not want to be anywhere else, and has sought assurances from his management he had not been offered to rival clubs.
Brad Arthur admits “everything comes to an end at some stage”, but insists he has no intentions of quitting Parramatta, especially in the year they have their best chance of ending a well-documented 36-year premiership drought.
Arthur, however, also accepted he had been at the Eels’ helm nine years, and a premiership would go a long way to silencing speculation over his future, which has become an annual debate among the media and long-suffering fans. “I’m nine years into my job and every year at some stage there is a question mark around whether I’m the coach moving forward. It’s a results-driven [business], I get it.”Arthur said his side needed to push deep into the finals - at least beyond week two, the stage at which the club has bombed out the past three years - to have the constant spotlight on him pointed elsewhere.
Arthur has enjoyed such a long stint at the blue and golds that seeing him in different club colours would take some getting used to.
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