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One delusional ActronAir account manager has today made the ambitious claim that rugby league is coming home.

He’s just one of thousands of central-western Sydney footy fans who believe that this is their year, after suffering for so very bloody long.

Local police have reported in a large spike in juvenile graffiti vandalism across the area, with some grown adults even being found spraypainting “it’s coming home” on parked cars and bus stops across the city-within-a-city

This comes as the Eels christened the brand spanking Parramatta Stadium with a 51-6 NRL humiliation of the Wests Tigers.

The Eels were dominant from start to finish, running in nine tries to one in front of a 29,047-strong crowd as they jumped into fifth spot, led by the Mitchell “The Lightning Leb” Moses – who parted a sea of frightened tigers to put 19 on the board alone.

Even without their usual playmaker, Blake Ferguson, out with busted ribs, and after losing prop Daniel Alvaro to a head knock in the first tackle of the game, the eels were able to lift to a level not seen since Sterlo.

It’s because of this that one local Parramatta father-of-4 has declared that the drought is over, and rugby league is coming back to where it was invented: The geographical centre of Sydney’s metropolitan area.

“This is our year boys” says the man, who also bet against Winx the weekend before.

“I can feel it”