Recuperating Parramatta coach Michael Hagan is taking heart from his side's gutsy win over the Sydney Roosters, but won't be drawing on the Eels' miracle run to the NRL finals under Jason Taylor two years ago.
Hagan returned to work yesterday after a temporary bout of vertigo put him out of action late last week.
In his absence, the Eels upset the Roosters 28-24 to keep their finals hopes alive.
''Hopefully it's temporary, I certainly don't want to go through that all that often,'' Hagan said of his illness.
''You can trigger it from rolling over in bed, you can trigger it digging in the garden, you can trigger it getting something out of the cupboard above your head so it's quite easy to set off and it's quite common.
''I don't know if there's any real particular cause for it but hopefully it will settle down in the next few weeks.''
The coach is still feeling some effects from the illness, which resulted in assistant coach David Fairleigh taking the reins of the Eels last Sunday.
''[It's] only very minor as far as if I get up a bit quickly ... I guess you've got to avoid any sudden movements for a little while,'' he said.
The Eels' upset of the Roosters and a reasonable run home have raised expectations Hagan's men could mount a charge similar to the nine straight wins the club put on in 2006 after Taylor replaced Brian Smith.
''It's probably quite a different group of people now if you look at the amount of people that moved on at the end of that year,'' Hagan said.
''That was certainly a much different set of circumstances. They were that far off the radar it wasn't funny but we've been within probably a point or two points of the eight for three or four weeks.
''We've won two of our last three, irrespective of how we won them, and we know that we've got a reasonable draw.''
That draw pits the Eels against the Wests Tigers next Monday, followed by the wooden spoon favourite Bulldogs, St George Illawarra and the New Zealand Warriors.
''We know that all our road trips have really been taken care of and our form on the road hasn't been brilliant,'' Hagan said.
''We've got two home games at Parramatta and two games at ANZ Stadium so geographically we don't have to go too far.
''From that point of view we've got a reasonable opportunity to have a decent run in. We're running out of opportunities for turning points. AAP