Smith from in front, converts
Sloppy passing from the Tigers, ball goes to ground and Addo-Carr cleans up and races away to score
Moses from the right sideline, converts
Moses hoofs it downfield with no one home for the Tigers, Simonsson wins the race, picks up the rolling ball and falls over the line to score
Tigers give the ball to the Eels again
PENALTY TIGERS - Addo-Carr pushing the Tigers defender away in the contest to catch the bomb
Tigers with a poor play and the Eels march upfield.
Play stopped for Doorey to come off for an HIA
PENALTY TIGERS - On the first tackle.
SCRUM TIGERS - 30m from the Eels line
Eels pushing passes and they turn it over inside their own half.
Doueihi converts from the sideline
Luai grubbers behind the defensive line that rushed up on the left edge and Laulilii reaches out and somehow manages to get a hand on it to score.
PENALTY TIGERS - 10m from the Eels line
Luke Laulilii looked set to score in the corner, but Moses hits him high and Laulilii goes into touch. Bunker rules no try, but Tigers penalty.
PENALTY TIGERS - Eels offside. Tigers find touch 4m shy of halfway
Addo-Carr with a try saving intercept!
Doueihi almost in front, converts
Luai grubbers into the Eels ingoal and Seyfarth competes and gets to the ball, grounding it for a try
Its not all bad Tigers fans - I can report that the new Grape V energy drink slaps - not as much as Monster Mango Loco though.
Doueihi throws a ball to his unmarked winger. Unfortunately for Tigers fans, Doueihi thought his winger was 8 foot tall and another 10m away
Iongi binned for tackling a player off the ball
PENALTY EELS - 20m from the Tigers line
Moretti has also been sent to the bin
Turuva has been sent to the sin bin for his brain snap
Bula forced into touch. Turuva then throws one of the Eels defenders away. Now everyone is having a conversation about how much they enjoyed Joe Hendry's appearance at Wrestlemania 41
Eels with a stray pass and Turuva falls on it
PENALTY EELS - Seyfarth with an illegal strip, late in the Eels set. They find touch 20m from the Tigers line
Russell from out on the left side fails to convert
First 7 minutes of this half looks more like something from 2021. Addo-Carr makes a break down the left sideline who then passes inside to Iongi in support who scores
Jack Bird is morphing into John Bateman.
Russell converts
Tuivaiti at dummy half close to the line barges over
Tigers drop a bomb on their own line and the Eels come up with it
Russell out wide on the right side, adds the extras
Moses gets the ball on the right and hits his lead runner Tuilagi who gets the ball in the defensive line, skips out of the tackle and scores.
Bird goes flying - when he tries to tackle a prop and gets bumped off
Tuilagi down after twisting his leg bit as he fell in the tackle. Fainu is put on report for, I don't know, lets say, not stacking the dishwasher correctly.
PENALTY TIGERS - Eels doing good defensively and then Kautonga just randomly shuffles behind the player playing the ball and the hooker, kicking the ball out of the way. Why? Why would you do that? You have a whole field to access to get back onside. There's cameras everywhere. Why go there?
SCRUM TIGERS - 10m from their own line
And then the Eels throw a forward pass....
Set restart Eels - again, 5m from the Tigers line
Set restart Eels - 7m from the Tigers line
From the Restart, Brown finds space and races 50 metres. Eels now on the Tigers line
Russell from the right sideline misses the conversion
Eels go right to Moses who hits his trailing runner Inogi, and he runs between the two edge defenders and just gets the ball down for a try.
Set restart Eels - still 10m from the Tigers line
PENALTY EELS - Tigers with another high tackle. Eels 10m from the Tigers line
Doueihi from the left sideline, narrowly misses
Tigers with an overlap but Naden looked to have been shut down, but he got an offload away to Bula who wrapped around in support and scored in the corner
PENALTY TIGERS - Eels defence up too early again. Tigers find touch 30m from the Eels line
Adam Doueihi converts from almost in front
May calls for a crash ball and he barges over for a try near the posts.
Set Restart Tigers - 12m from the Eels line
Poor pass from dummy half to Koroisau's foot and the Tigers hooker spills it. Tigers just had 3 sets on the Eels line and come away with nothing
Set Restart Tigers - still 10m from the Eels line
PENALTY TIGERS - 10m from the Eels line
SCRUM TIGERS - Scrum sets 20m from the Eels line
Russell from the left sideline can't add the extras
Eels shift the ball from right to left to Moses, who sends a long ball out to Addo-Carr who skipped out of a tackle and dived over in the corner to score
Set Restart Eels - 10m from the Tigers line
After a great defensive set by the Tigers, Mitch Moses kicks a huge 40/20
PENALTY EELS - Eels defence give away another penalty when the Tigers are coming out of their own 20m
Both Tigers wingers being pepperd with kicks and they've been equal to the challenge every time so far
PENALTY EELS - Tigers defence again up too early.
And they turn it over in the first hit up from the tap
PENALTY TIGERS - They'll get a gift piggy back into the Eels half.- 37m from the Eels line to be reasonably precise
Russell kicks a penalty goal
PENALTY EELS - 20m from the Tigers line. They're going to take a crack at the points
Set Restart Eels - just as they enter the Tigers half on their 4th tackle.
Eels kick off
Eels run out onto the Tigers home ground first
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Liam Kennedy
Touch Judges: Drew Oultram, Phil Henderson
Video Referee: Adam Gee
WESTS TIGERS (22)
Tries: Terrell May, Jahream Bula, Alex Seyfarth, Luke Laulilii
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Adam Doueihi (3/4)
Penalty Goals:
PARRAMATTA EELS (38)
Tries: Josh Addo-Carr (2), Isaiah Iongi (2), Kelma Tuilagi, Sam Tuivaiti, Bailey Simonsson
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Sean Russell (2/5), Mitchell Moses (1/1), Ryley Smith (1/1)
Penalty Goals: Sean Russell (1/1)