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The Eels misery deepens as they are thumped by the out of form Knights.

PENALTY EELS - Knights pinged for tackling a player off the ball. Knights get a warning.

PENALTY EELS - Knights give away a penalty late in the set and the Eels will have a full set inside the Knights 30.

PENALTY EELS - Knights up too quickly in defence. Eels get a piggyback up towards halfway.

Sio picks a bad Eels pass and runs 65 metres before getting tackled by Smith.

Saifiti with a big hit on the inside runner which stopped a try dead in the tracks. Terepo is now off for an HIA. Eels are the walking wounded right now.

PENALTY EELS - Brown and Levi exchange Valentines cards.

SCRUM EELS - Ponga's little kick finds touch deep inside the Eels half.

SCRUM EELS - Parramatta feed the scrum 35m from their own line.

Mata'utia burrows over the line but is ruled to be held up.

PENALTY KNIGHTS - Takairangi penalised for working the neck of Fitzgibbon.

Connor Watson stretches his arm out for some odd reason and an Eels player runs into it. Just a weird incident.

Ponga again finds space down the left wing. He flings the ball back infield as he goes into touch but the pass is intercepted by Michael Jennings.

SCRUM EELS - Sio makes a break, comes back infield and then offloads to the wing he just left, but there's no one there and the ball goes into touch.

PENALTY KNIGHTS - Moeroa leads with his shoulder and hits Heighington flush in the face. He's put on report and is very lucky not to get marched.

Gutherson kicks for the winger, but its way too big and goes out on the full.

SCRUM EELS - Knock on by Kenny-Dowall

SCRUM EELS - Sio goes agonisingly close to scoring from the first Knights set of the half. He drops the ball just inches shy of the line

Knights get the second half started with a tricky restart. Great take by Gutherson.

Will Smith with a good break but is tackled by Ponga head on as the siren sounds for the end of the half.

SCRUM EELS - Denniss tries to get outside George Jennings, but the ball is knocked out.

PENALTY KNIGHTS - Jennings penalised. Knights take the tap.

Fitzgibbon going very close to scoring. He chased a kick through but was impeded illegally by Michael Jennings.

SCRUM KNIGHTS - Gutherson kicks low into Mata'utuia, who didn't play at the ball, and the balls goes into touch.

Knights with another nice play and break through the middle. Watson got the ball to Buhrer. Burhere was talked and offloaded the ball after the ref called held, despite Buhrer's ball carrying arm not hitting the ground.

Denniss throws Michael Jennings away and then throws an offload to Sio which is ruled to be forward.

PENALTY KNIGHTS - Eels give away a penalty deep in their half. Knights to take a shot at the 2.

Moses being helped off the field. He isn't limping badly or being carried, so hopefully it's nothing too serious.

SCRUM KNIGHTS - Moses runs around in circles and then drops the ball as he spins around and then has the defender fall across his twisting outstretched leg. Trainer checking his knee.

PENALTY EELS - Knights offside again. 3 Penalties in 2 minutes.

PENALTY EELS - Knights goal line defence jumps early. Eels with another set inside the Knights 20m

PENALTY EELS - Knights offside. Eels are on halfway and will find touch 35m from the Knights line.

SCRUM EELS - Mata'utia receives a forward pass from dummy half. Eels off the hook.

PENALTY KNIGHTS - Newcastle will find touch 40m from the Eels line.

SCRUM KNIGHTS - Gower drops the pill 35m from the Knights line.

PENALTY EELS - Knights players offisde after the kick. Eels desperately needed that.

SCRUM KNIGHTS - Takairangi tries to pick up a grassed pass, but knocks it on.

Both sides settling down after signs of early expansive play.

PENALTY EELS - Knights with an illegal strip.

SCRUM EELS - Ponga threw a cut out pass for Sio, but the winger was a step off the pace and the ball goes past him and into touch.

PENALTY KNIGHTS - Eels holding down in the tackle. Knights take the tap, 20m out.

DROP OUT EELS - Ponga with a deft grubber towards the left corner, forcing the Eels to knock it dead-in-goal. Meanwhile, Gower is getting some putty in his head.

Ponga very nearly busts through the line on his first kick return.

SCRUM EELS - Cogger put in a crafty grubber, Ponga flies through and very nearly regathers and grounds the ball for a try, but he loses it short of the line. Bevan French copped a head clash in the process and he comes off the field, looking very dusty/

SCRUM KNIGHTS - Knights went wide in the first set, but Denniss' pass goes into touch after touching an Eel's players hand

Eels get us underway!