Parramatta Eels chief executive Bernie Gurr says the club will undertake a review of the club's entire football operations, following their disastrous 2-11 start to the season.
The Eels were smashed by the Knights 4-30 on Saturday, further cementing their place on the bottom of the NRL ladder.
The loss was compounded by injuries to playmaker Mitchell Moses, winger Bevan French and lock Peni Terepo, while Tepai Moeroa was handed a grade-three shoulder charge for his hit on Knights veteran Chris Heighington and will miss 3-5 games.
After being dubbed a premiership fancy heading into the season, Gurr will now attempt to resolve what has cause the team's season to go so horribly wrong.
"The reality is when you're 2-8, then it becomes 2-9 and then 2-10 and 2-11 the lens becomes much sharper on all those pieces of your footy program," Gurr told The Sydney Morning Herald.
"When you're 2-11 we do expedite the time we use to review all of those processes.
"Last year when we were 16-8 we were ticking along beautifully, but now we're 2-11 and we've actually added to our footy department.
"We're constantly looking at all parts of the footy program, whether that's the junior elite program, whether that's our recruitment department, whether it's our player roster, whether it's our salary cap, whether it's our coaching and support staff or whether it's our high performance staff."
It is believed that the club still believes coach Brad Arthur is the guy to take them forward, who is under contract until the end of the 2019 season.
"People say you technically don't have a separate head of football, but the reality is I cover it at a very high level," Gurr said.
"We've done some benchmarking against other clubs with the amount of football staff they have and we compare quite favourably numbers wise. It's a bit of misnomer we don't have people dedicated to football because we do.
"It's the belief of the board and our club we will give total support to our footy program. There's nothing they want they don't get."
French will need to pass a concussion test to be available this weekend, while five-eighth Corey Norman, co-captain Tim Mannah and star centre Jarryd Hayne are all also a chance to get up for their clash with North Queensland.
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