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The tries have stopped. The siren sounds

Captains challenge by the Eels. That was just a time wasting challenge. It failed.

A tackle has been completed and no points scored. 97 seconds left

PENALTY EELS - Manly broke from the scrum early

SCRUM EELS - 10m from the Manly line

Captains Challenge by Manly - failed

SCRUM MANLY - Brown drops the ball on the 2nd tackle. Both sides forwards are bashing each other senseless. glorious stuff

PENALTY EELS - Crusher tackle.

SCRUM MANLY - Gutho ruled to have thrown a forward pass

SCRUM EELS - Koula, 30m from his own line, throws a crazy panic pass to what he thought was his winger, but was actually Haumole Olakau'atu, who can't keep the ball from going into touch

PENALTY EELS - Now they get a relieving penalty, which gets them up to halfway

Tommy T very nearly barges through for a try but he loses the ball.

PENALTY MANLY - Hodgson trying to be a jockey after making a tackle. Manly gets out of jail and finds touch 10m shy of halfway

Manly swing the ball right this time and get Christian Tuipulotu one on one and also just outside Gutherson, who he takes on head-on. Gutherson though, despite being smashed, someone manages to cause the Manly winger to lose the ball, saving a try from being scored.

PENALTY MANLY - Eels with a high tackle. DCE finds touch 20m from the Eels line

PENALTY MANLY - Gutho runs behind his team mates, 10m from the Manly line.

SCRUM EELS - 10m from the Manly line

PENALTY EELS x 2 - first for the obstruction and then again 2 tackles later for a crusher

Bunker rules no try. Parker's glorious beard obstructed Moses. Although Moses wasn't obstructed, moreso distracted by the Parker facial hair.

Off to the bunker, looking at a possible Manly try down the left side

Halftime report from the sheds. Seibold has told his chargers "bash em" while Arthur in the Eels shed has told his boys to "bash em"

What a dire end to that set by Manly. Oddly went to the shortside on the last, on halfway to DCE, whose kick was charged down. Manly regathered and DCE kicked again, after having lost 25 metres and the Eels start their set on halfway

Murchie tries to offload but knocks on instead, 10m from Manly's line.

SCRUM EELS - Croker with a flat pass that is ruled forward, 5 metres shy of halfway.

Manly survived Parramatta's one dimensional attack and now they're playing with more energy again

SCRUM EELS - on halfway. A sloppy minute and a half from Manly there

Parramatta try the Manly play of trying to create the overlap on the left side, but it resulted in Sivo being nudged over the sideline.

Gutherson catches the bomb. Good teaching by Tommy T

PENALTY MANLY - Eels penalised while on attack for having an offside player getting involved in the play. Manly opting to take the 2

Moses with a bomb and Tom Trbojevic shows Gutho how to catch

SCRUM EELS - 10m from their own line

Manly going left yet again and very nearly getting to the line, but Haumole Olakau'atu drops the ball out wide

SET RESTART MANLY - still parked on the Eels line

DCE with a bomb. This time Gutho goes to catch it, but it drops it. Manly with a fresh set 10m from the Eels line

SCRUM MANLY - 30m from their own line

Moses tries to play flat this time and throws a hospital pass to Cartwright who drops it while getting met by the defence

Croker from dummy half launches a kick down town and it slowly dribbles dead in goal. Eels with a 20m restart and 7 tackle set

PENALTY MANLY - And now they get a piggy back out of their own half

Manly's defence rushing up on Moses, who took too long to get a pass away and the Eels turn the ball over on the second tackle

PENALTY EELS - Big kick by Moses gets his side into the Manly half

Schuster puts up a shallow bomb. Gutherson lets Koula bat it back and it avoids all Manly players and the Eels clean up, 15m from their own line

Eels kick off

Brad Parker playing game 100, sporting a stunning and powerful red beard.

No late changes for either side.

Manly haven't beaten Parramatta on a Thursday since Round 4, 1963, furthermore, of all the time a 16th placed Eels side has played against Manly, Parramatta has won 5 of 7 games, and on all of those occasions, Manly were placed higher on the ladder. On the flip side, Mitch Moses has made 4 trips to 4 Pines Park, producing 4 losses, with his side scoring 52 points and conceding 160 - that's an average scoreline of 40-13. Who will buck the trend tonight?