Parramatta Eels Holden Cup

[Forty20]

Hang on a minute. The decision is UPHELD. Fred Jr Mauala gets on the scoreboard for falling on a loose ball.

Brasington slots the extras from in front.

Parra lead 6-0

4 minutes gone.

 

[Forty20]

Gorman makes an incisive run down the left hand short side as Pritchard gives him a nice ball. Unfortunately Gorman's pass to our centre is no good an Cronulla get a scrum 35m out from their line.

 

[Forty20]

Cronulla make a break but their final pass is knocked down and cleaned up as we defuse a dangeroues siuation.

In alarming news, Kaysa is down injured after slipping off the tackle that caused the break. He is up but I'm unsure on his state.

Meanwhile Junior Paulo goes 50m downfield through soft Cronulla defence but Pauli Pauli drops the ball on the next play.

 

[Forty20]

Frenetic start to the game, sorry for the crazy updates!

 

[Pazza]

Lol sounds it, any news on Pritchard?

 

[Forty20]

We work it out for a fairly ordinary set that is salvaged by a massive kick from Brasington. Cronulla to play it from deep in their half.

8 minutes gone.

 

[Forty20]

Pritchard is still on the field as we string together a better set with some strong hit ups from our pack. A good kick chase on our bomb pins the Cronulla fullback on his 10m line.

 

[Forty20]

The good work is undone as we concede a penalty in the ruck. Cronulla to play it from just past the half way line.

 

[Forty20]

Cronulla go deep down our left hand side and Brasington makes the tackle 2m out from our line. Cronulla centre the ball and Lichaa runs it from dummy half and although I thought we had the numbers to cover him, he manages to roll over and plant the ball over the line.

Soft stuff there from our defence.

Conversion is good.

Game is locked up at 6 all.

13 minutes gone.

 

[Pazza]

Sounds like the props are doing a good job early?

 

[Forty20]

Props are going alright. Some good carries to Paulo and Pauli so far.

Cronulla make massive inroads on the kickoff set but it fizzles out with a bog ordinary kick.

 

[Forty20]

Gorman completes our set with a good kick but Cronulla are hitting the ball up with some intent and we are struggling to match the intensity, in my opinion.

In the following set Moeikiola makes a strong kick return to give us a good start to our set. Tuitahi follows him up, who in turn is followed by Pritchard. Good dummy half metres there get us into Cronulla's half.

Clay runs it from dummy half on the last but can't link up with anyone and we turn over possession with a loose pass.

17 minutes gone.

 

[Forty20]

The defencive effort has improved but Tuitahi spills a Cronulla bomb ingoals and we force the ball to concede a drop out.

 

[Forty20]

Soft soft soft down our left edge. After scrambling hard to shut down some second phase play Cronulla score by simply spreading the ball. We miss the up front tackles and Cronulla cross to take the lead.

Conversion is good.

Cronulla lead 12-6.

Looks like Coach Webster is still searching for that consistent effort.

Masinuamua is on

22 minutes gone.

 

[Forty20]

Moeikiola with another good kick return after another big Cronulla set. We are on the front foot here as Ualesi makes some big metres.

 

[Forty20]

Clay runs it on the last and puts Brasington through a gap on the inside. Unfortunately there is no else is support and Clay is wrapped up after receiving Brasington's desperation pass.

We shoot ourselves in the foot again as we concede another penalty. Cronulla on the attack deep in our half.

24 minutes gone.

 

[Forty20]

Good line speed there from our boys as Cronulla make only their second error. Parra scrum 10m out from our line.

 

[Forty20]

Great run from Tuitahi (I believe) gets us rolling on. We have some second phase play going now. Clay puts in a decent 5th tackle chip but our chaser is checked (not sure if it was a penalty) and Cronulla get a 20m restart.

From the restart Cronulla gift us possession and we are now on the attack,

 

[Forty20]

Gorman gets a decent pass from Kasya and shows some footwork to make the defenders plant their feet on the line and he shoots over between two of them.

Conversion is good.

Parra get back on even terms at 12 all.

29 minutes gone

 

[Forty20]

Cronulla are marking up hard on Masinamua, although he is still making some good runs. Brasington closes out a good kickoff set with a tidy kick and we force Cronulla to work it out from their red zone.

Yet again we release the pressure as Masinuamua is correctly pinged for a shoulder charge.

Cronulla to resume play from the half way line.