Hiku goes himself for the line but the Eels defence are equal to the task and push him into touch in the Eels in-goal
PENALTY WARRIORS - Jennings turned into an octopus at the ruck there. Warriors find touch 25m from the Eels line
Gutherson with a chip and chase, 15m from the Warriors line, but he loses the ball forward into RTS. No try.
Off to the bunker for a possible Eels try
Warriors with the short restart but Blake leaps over the stadium roof to take it
Moses with the penalty goal from right in front of the posts and he nails it
PENALTY EELS - RTS leaps to take a contested bomb, but loses it forward and Lawton cleans up in an offside position.
A stray Warriors pass just inside the Eels half is cleaned up by Parramatta
Harris-Tavita juuuuuuuuuuuuust sneaks this inside the post
Warriors sent the ball wide to the left on the last to Beale, who couldn't quite get outside Ferguson, so he drops it onto the toe and the gentle grubber is forced for a try by Perham
Off to the bunker to see if the Warriors have scored.
PENALTY WARRIORS - Warriors take the tap
SCRUM WARRIORS - Brown ambles into the line and drops the ball in the tackle. Warriors with a full set inside the Eels half.
Moses on the right side, bangs this over
Moses with a deft chip kick finds Blake who positioned him perfectly, took the ball cleanly and fell over the line to score on the right side.
Gutherson's grubber forces a Warriors drop out
An utterly garbage set by Parramatta ends with a Moses grubber blocked by Egan's boot, and Egan than falls on the loose ball.
PENALTY EELS - Warriors broke early from the scrum. Eels take the tap, 25m from the Warriors line
SCRUM EELS - Challenge unsuccessful.
Paulo with a big tackle forces a Warriors knock on. Warriors challenging
Meanwhile Mahoney is nursing his left shoulder
Sivo is down. Play has stopped. Looks like he copped an accidental knock to the head.
PENALTY WARRIORS - No try for Parramatta. Mahoney was offside
Off to the bunker to look at a possible Eels try.
PENALTY EELS - Challenge successful. Harris ruled to have stripped the ball illegally. They find touch 30m from the Warriors line.
Refs challenge. Paulo ruled to have lost the ball.
SCRUM EELS - RTS dropping the ball as he gets tackled. Both sides getting sloppy now.
SCRUM WARRIORS - Evans with a clear forward pass on the 3rd tackle.
PENALTY EELS - Moses finds touch 10m shy of halfway
SCRUM EELS - Warriors looked to have scored another skillful try but the last pass was ruled forward
SCRUM WARRIORS - Mahoney loses the ball in a tackle by Papali'i. Everyone gets together for a cuddle before setting the scrum
Warriors manage to force a repeate set by trapping Gutherson ingoal after a nice grubber. Drop out Parramatta
Moses kick is taken easily in the Warriors ingoal by Hiku. Warriors with a 7 tackle set.
PENALTY EELS - They'll get the first full set of the second half inside the opposition 30m
Parra take the tap but the ref calls halftime. Damn that was a crazy final 4 minutes!
Moses kicks a 40/20 with 10 secs left in the half.
CHT from to the right of the posts, adds another 2
RTS backing up from a mile back, explodes onto a ball and through a huge gap in the middle and he runs 60m before getting a pass infield while being tackled. The ball goes to ground and comes off Nikorima's feet and CHT following behind cleans up and then scores to the right of the posts.
CHT converts
CHT chips to the left corner, the mid-air contest sees Perham tap it back, CHT regathers, gets tackled but offloads just before the tackle is completed, to RTS, who quickly passes over the top to Murchie, who quickly sends it along to Perham, back on his feet, who tries to use his footwork to create a gap, but no dice, so he fires a pass back infield to CHT, who swings it further along to the right, over Nikorima's head. The ball bounces to Harris, who gets caught, but then draws a second defender before passing to Hiku, who very nearly dies with the ball, gets a last gasp backdoor flick to Nikorima, who comes back in and then grubbers. Harris-Tavita follows through, gets a friendly bounce and he dives to regather and score all in the same motion.
Off to the bunker to check to see if the Warriors have scored a remarkable try
Both sides struggling with execution on their last tackle plays.
Set restart for the Warriors
Evans very nearly gets himself a try, but he loses the awkwardly bouncing ball in the Warriors in-goal
PENALTY EELS - Tevaga penalise. Eels find touch 5m inside the Warriors half
Warriors get a set restart on the first tackle
Moses converts from in front.
THE DUCK IS BROKEN! A grubber at the line beats Blake and the Warriors defenders and Blake Ferguson gets a sweet bounce, he regathers and runs away to score under the posts.
Off to the bunker
Moses converts from almost in front
Gutherson hits a gap, steps out of a tackle and then chips over the head of RTS and Jai Field zooms after the ball and regathers to score.
Nikorima with a grubber, but it's too shallow and Gutherson cleans up easily enough, 5m from his own line
Nikorima's bomb is dropped in goal by the Eels as Sivo and Jennings run into each other. Eels drop out.
SCRUM WARRIORS - Gutherson drops the pass from the back of the scrum.
SCRUM EELS - They get a fresh set 40m from the Warriors line
Eels against 12 men, with a very dull set. They run it on the last and die with the ball.
PENALTY EELS - They find touch 20m inside the Warriors half.
Tevaga has been sin binned for trying to push Brown off him. Ref has deemed it as striking at the head of Brown.
Moses with a bomb and RTS takes it cleanly, steps the first kick chaser, slips through the next tackle and almost gets away. Great run!
SCRUM EELS - Hiku tries to get another flick pass away but instead it just plops out forward. Good field position and fresh set completely wasted.
Warriors get another set restart
Set restart for the Warriors who are working the ball off their own 20m
Set restart for the Eels 20m from their own line.
Hiku withj a flick to Pompey, who was outnumbered and he loses the ball on the last, 5m from the Eels line.
Gutherson grubbers for Ferguson, who is in the clear, but the ball doesn't bounce for him. So close yet Blake is still tryless for 2020
Parramatta get close to the Warriors on the line after opting to run it on the last, but Lane is brought down 5m shy of the line
Moses fails from the sideline
Lane on the short side produces a stunning no-look cut-out pass at the line, which finds Sivo unmarked and the winger walks over for an easy try in the left corner.
Eels get a set restart but they don't need it
Nice kick on the 3rd tackle by Gutherson is cleaned up by RTS, but he is then forced in goal. Warriors drop out
PENALTY EELS - Warriors holding down too long
Nikorima kicks at the end of the first set of the game and it goes dead ingoal. 7 tackle set for Parramatta
Parramatta kick off
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Grant Atkins
Touch Judges: Chris Butler, Phil Henderson
Video Referee: Steve Chiddy, Beau Scott
WARRIORS (18)
Tries: Chanel Harris-Tavita (2), Hayze Perham
Field Goals:
Conversions: Chanel Harris-Tavita (3/3)
Penalty Goals:
PARRAMATTA EELS (24)
Tries: Maika Sivo, Jai Field, Blake Ferguson, Waqa Blake
Field Goals:
Conversions: Mitchell Moses (3/4)
Penalty Goals: Mitchell Moses (1/1)