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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:39:37 GMT 10
MONDAY 12th May: Parramatta Eels v Cronulla Sharks at Pirtek Stadium, 7.00pm
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:39:56 GMT 10
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Eels v Sharks - Mon 12 May, 7:00pm (local), Pirtek Oval
Eels
1 Jarryd Hayne (c)
2 Semi Radradra
3 Will Hopoate
4 Willie Tonga
5 Ken Sio
6 Corey Norman
7 Chris Sandow
8 Tim Mannah (c)
9 Nathan Peats
10 Darcy Lussick
11 Pauli Pauli
12 Manu Ma’u
13 Joseph Paulo
Interchange
14 David Gower
15 Peni Terepo
16 Fuifui Moimoi
17 Mitch Allgood
Coach: Brad Arthur
Sharks
1 Michael Gordon
2 Sosaia Feki
3 Blake Ayshford
4 Ricky Leutele
5 Beau Ryan
6 Luke Lewis
7 Jeff Robson
8 Andrew Fifita
9 John Morris
10 Bryce Gibbs
11 Anthony Tupou
12 Wade Graham
13 Paul Gallen (c)
Interchange
14 Isaac De Gois
15 Chris Heighington
16 Tinarau Arona
17 Siosaia Vave
20 Michael Lichaa
Coach: Peter Sharp
Darcy Lussick and Pauli Pauli start for Fuifui Moimoi and David Gower. Mitch Allgood returns from concussion and replaces Taniela Lasalo on the bench.
Luke Lewis makes his long-awaited return in jersey 6 with Todd Carney out injured. Bryce Gibbs returns pushing Siosaia Vave to the bench. Isaac De Gois returns, pushing Michael Lichaa to 18th man.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:40:17 GMT 10
NRL.com
By Matt Encarnacion, Western Sydney Correspondent
Wed, May 07, 2014 - 04:45PM
Eels v Sharks
Pirtek Stadium
Monday, 7pm (AEST)
Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
We're only a third of the way through the NRL season but the clock is truly ticking for both of Monday's combatants Parramatta and Cronulla.
The Sharks, last year's semi-finalists, take on last year's wooden-spooners in an attempt to recover from their disastrous start to the season. Considered a top four candidate in March, the Shiremen have bottomed out, losing six of their opening eight games due to myriad injuries and poor form.
Only fellow stragglers the Warriors have used more players than Cronulla, who have had key men Todd Carney, Paul Gallen, Jeff Robson, Anthony Tupou and Luke Lewis all on the sidelines at various stages through the year.
The good news is that the cavalry is slowly returning for interim coach Peter Sharp, and despite some obvious rust, the under-pressure outfit showed enough desperation to nab a last-ditch 24-20 victory over Penrith in Round 8 for just their second win of the year.
Nevertheless, the eighth-placed Panthers sit just two wins ahead of them, so the sun is still shining on their season... for now.
Parramatta, on the other hand, have had two weeks to dwell on back-to-back losses, the last of which was a 42-14 stinker in Townsville that left a stain on what, up to that point, had been an promising start to the season.
With a 4-4 record, the 11th-placed Eels are the last of seven teams on eight points due to a poor points differential. Jagging a win again the struggling Sharks should keep them in touch with the pack, but a loss would certainly curtail any momentum they had over the opening two months.
Cronulla, who are losing touch with that crowded mid-table, have thrown rugby league's version of a hail mary by inserting returning forward Luke Lewis into the No. 6 with Todd Carney out for a number of weeks with that troublesome hamstring. Lewis hasn't played since the crashing into the hoardings in England during the World Cup.
For the Eels, Jarryd Hayne, Tim Mannah, Nathan Peats and Manu Ma'u have all been named despite being ruled out through injury for their representative teams last weekend. They'll all be re-assessed closer to game day.
Watch Out Eels: Together with the Wests Tigers, Cronulla have forced a league-leading 106 errors out of their opposition this year, giving them plenty of opportunities with the ball. And while they haven't exactly made teams pay – they've returned a league-low 111 points thus far in 2014 – you're flirting with danger if you're handing that much possession over, particularly to a team that has the game's best offloader in Andrew Fifita. The NSW prop is averaging almost four of them a game.
Watch Out Sharks: We've been waiting a while now for the bubble on Semi Radradra's ridiculous beard to burst, but forget it – with the kind of numbers he's posting up, the big fella – and his Abe Lincoln - is here to stay. The Fijian international leads the league in tries (10) and is among the best in line breaks (9). He's proven that he's not all 'show', either, contributing a handy 114 metres a game. Cronulla aren't that flash on the edges, so they'll have to be quick to get up on the Semi-trailer.
Plays To Watch: Parramatta's middle got off to a horrible start against the Cowboys a fortnight ago. It didn't matter which way the Townsville mob did it – short balls, inside passes, little dinks behind the line – there was plenty of space, and just as many tries. Expect Cronulla to test them again.
Cronulla will have to get creative without their maestro in Carney, and they showed a few avenues to the tryline in the second half of their win over Penrith. With the ball going to Robson's hands, there were at least three kicks that were intended for fullback Michael Gordon – and two resulted in meat pies. The former Origin winger will be a target for sure.
Where It Will Be Won: In Jeff Robson's hands. With Carney sidelined, the pressure will be on the lone playmaker to create points for a side that hasn't put up too many this season. The Eels will get theirs – it just depends if the Sharks can go with them.
The History: Played 83; Parramatta 40, Cronulla 43. Not much between the two sides in recent years, with the spoils split over their past eight games. The home side were victorious in last year's home-and-home series, the Eels scoring a close 13-6 win at Parramatta before going down 32-14 in the return bout later on in the year.
Match Officials: Referees – Adam Devcich & Alan Shortall; Sideline Officials – Chris Butler & Russell Turner; Video Referees – Ashley Klein & Henry Perenara.
Televised: FoxSports 1 – Live 7pm (AEST).
The Way We See It: The return of Lewis makes everyone in rugby league feel good, but in the No. 6? It's a tough assignment for the Australian representative, and while it's certainly not beyond his ability, Cronulla might need more than a Lewis-Robson halves pairing to outscore a giddy Eels outfit. Parramatta by eight points.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:40:45 GMT 10
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NSW's 2014 Origin campaign has officially entered crisis mode and judging by the Eels' 42-24 try-fest at Pirtek Stadium on Monday night, so is Cronulla's NRL season.
While Parramatta joined five teams on 10 points on the ladder with their thumping win, the Shiremen were dealt their seventh loss in nine games to return to the NRL cellar.
But the biggest news of the night centred around an injury to Blues prop Andrew Fifita, who limped out of Parramatta on crutches with a high ankle sprain suffered in the first half.
With the short-term futures of key Blues men Mitchell Pearce and Greg Bird already up in the air after a horrid weekend, it may prove to be NSW coach Laurie Daley that endured the worst loss of the night.
And Cronulla probably felt like joining him in the foetal position, as all they could do was watch reborn Eels halfback Chris Sandow and superstar Jarryd Hayne turn in sparkling attacking performances.
Sandow began the game with a spiralling kick off that forced opposite number Jeff Robson into error. And while the Eels failed to score in the ensuing set, the tackle-one turnover from the Sharks was all that Hayne needed to fire a bullet for rampaging winger Semi Radradra to score his 11th try of the season and earn the early 4-0 lead.
Cronulla responded in almost identical fashion in the ninth minute, with fullback Michael Gordon chiming in on a left side shift that gave winger Sosaia Feki a saloon passage to the tryline.
And when second-rower Wade Graham put his hand up – or feet, rather – for a plane ticket to Brazil next month with a classy first touch off a Robson dink to touch down nine minutes later, the Sharks looked like handing the Eels their first loss at home this year.
But then came a jaw-dropping 10-minute period where the home side fired three straight tries past a stunned Sharks defence.
The first was a slick 40m movement that started and finished with Hayne in the 28th minute. The likely Blues No. 1 put left centre Willie Tonga away near halfway, before backing up and stepping three defenders on his way to the tryline for a four-pointer trailing only Greg Inglis' superhuman effort for try of the year honours.
The second was all Sandow, with the once-troubled halfback slipping a trademark chip for himself that wrong-footed Gordon and bounced perfectly for the Eels No. 7.
And after converting his own try, the former Rabbitoh then completed the first half with a 40-20 that ended – after two quick-taps that were pulled back by the referees – in Sandow popping a long ball for Sio to score in the right corner and earning a 22-12 lead at the break.
The home side continued where it left off in the second half, with Hayne creating space for Hopoate to finish off a simple right side shift in the 49th.
Graham bombed a chance to nab his second when he lost the ball over the line in the 55th, but the game tensed up when Sharks skipper Paul Gallen bumped off three defenders and popped it up for Isaac De Gois to reduce the deficit to 10 points.
Cronulla looked like cramping Parramatta's lead further when they attacked the Eels line in the 63rd minute, but Gordon's pass was picked off by Willie Tonga, who found enough legs to complete the runaway 80m try. Sandow added the extras and restored the three-try lead.
But still the visitors wouldn't go away and when Luke Lewis hit Gordon with a 68th minute inside pass to put the fullback through untouched, the Eels were again made to earn their win.
Fittingly, it was their match-winning duo of Sandow and Hayne who came to the fore.
Two tackles after slicing through the Sharks defence, Sandow put up a crossfield kick that Hopoate pulled down and passed to Sio – all in one motion – for a response in the 72nd.
Then Hayne completed the night with a runaway 70m try off a Sharks mistake four minutes later, only to be sin-binned in the final minute for a professional foul.
Sharks second-rower Anthony Tupou was put on report for a head slam on Eels backrower Manu Ma'u.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:41:06 GMT 10
Parramatta Eels 42 (Sio 2, Hayne 2, Radradra, Sandow, Hopoate, Tonga tries; Sandow 5 goals) defeated Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 24 (Feki, Graham, De Gois, Gordon tries; Gordon 4 goals). Crowd: 12,541.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:41:49 GMT 10
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:42:36 GMT 10
 Jarryd Hayne of the Eels puts a fend on Ricky Leutele of the Sharks. |
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:43:36 GMT 10
 Tim Mannah of the Eels leads his players from the field after their warm up. |
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:44:30 GMT 10
 Tim Mannah of the Eels is tackled. |
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:45:22 GMT 10
 Tim Mannah of the Eels holds the Jon Mannah cup with his father Fred Mannah after victory. |
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 7, 2020 21:46:20 GMT 10
 Hayne Plane fires. |
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Post by Electric Eel on Sept 8, 2021 12:40:01 GMT 10
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