Signing with the Parramatta Eels is Kelma Tuilagi

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Send to EmailThe Parramatta Eels are happy to announce the addition of Kelma Tuilagi, who has signed a two-year deal that will keep him an Eel through the 2025 season.

After making his NRL debut with the Wests Tigers in 2021 and later joining the Manly Sea Eagles in 2023, Kelma has participated in 44 games.

In addition, he represented Samoa at the World Cup last year, with a standout performance coming in the World Cup Final.

“We are pleased that Kelma has chosen to join the Club for the 2024 and 2025 season,” general manager of football Mark O’Neil remarked. We believe that at age 24, he will play football at its finest and deliver a

League Express can confirm that the Fijian-born flyer has turned his sights to the northern hemisphere after finding little interest from competing NRL clubs in signing him.

After agreeing to a four-and-a-half-year contract with Parramatta midway through the 2019 season, the 28-year-old has struggled to find consistency in prior seasons.

Blake played 88 games with the Mountain Men after rising through the ranks at the Penrith Panthers. He scored 34 tries during that time. Blake made his Mountain Men debut in 2015.

The 28-year-old has added 28 more tries in 72 games while playing with the Eels, bringing his total number of NRL appearances to 61.

The current Eel was born in Lautoka, Fiji, and the Blake family relocated to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia when he was barely nine years old.

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