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Parramatta Eels Holden Cup

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Forty20

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Meanwhile on the other edge we are all at sea as we are caught short and Tuitahi plays for the sweeper. The Cronulla blocker gets the ball instead and strolls over untouched.

Conversion is good.

Cronulla back out in front, leading 18-12

34 minutes gone.

Stupid errors are killing us again.
 

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dreadset, brassington looks like he could snap in half at any moment

not a comment on how he plays or anything - he's just so skinny!
 

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Cronulla put up a bloody ordinary kick which goes nowhere and is dropped by one of their chasers. Refs rules double knock on and we get the play-the-ball to start our set.

Cronulla are pinged for taking out Clay early as he looked to receive an inside offload.
 

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We squander another chase as Clay is pinged for a regulation obstruction. Cronulla on the attack 30m out from their line, they make a line break down our right edge with some enterprising second phase play and are deep in our half.
 

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We scramble hard in that set and manage to hold them out. We were pretty lucky though as Tuitahi was deep infield and the cross-field cook was put up well too high.
 

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Clay is penalised for a high tackle right on the half time buzzer. Cronulla will get one last roll of the dice from the halfway line.
 

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They spread it down our left hand flank with a sweeping backline move but it stagnates and they force a forward pass to finish the half.

Halftime, Cronulla lead 18-12.
 

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Same old story here. Too many mistakes and too many drops in intensity. Connor Broadhurst is a real defencive problem, I know he isn't alone in that department but the amount of simple one-on-one tackles he misses is alarming.

No one has had a stormer but we have been well served by Pauli, Paulo and Masinamua in attack.

Ualesi has also had a few nice runs to keep us in the hunt.

Tuitahi and Moeikiola have given us good meterage from kick returns but are also factors in our flanks looking very brittle.

Pritchard has plugged away after his injury scare, working hard in defence and providing some good service.

Gorman and Clay have looked alright but have overplayed their hands at times.

Brasington hasn't had much impact at fullback, although he hasn't made any errors but his boot has often salvaged what would be otherwise ordinary sets.

We are a better team than Cronulla but we need to get the stupid shit out of our game if we want the 2 points.
 

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Some good carries from Ualesi and Charlie are followed by a dodgy offload from Masinuamua. Cronulla touch it but Gorman cleans up to get 6 again. We are deep in their half now.

Clay puts a decent kick in to the ingoals but there is no one to chase and Cronulla get a 20m restart.
 

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Moeakiola is hit by a good kick chase and to follow it up we struggle with the pressure being put on us by Cronulla's line speed.
 

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Penalty count ticks over to 6-2 against us as we concede another soft ruck penalty. Cronulla to play it on our 20m line.

Gorman with an injury concern.
 

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We are somewhat fortunate as Cronulla are pinged for obstruction after the Cronulla half fends off Gorman and continued to run behind a support player.

46 minutes gone.

Moeroa and Pauli are on.
 

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Another error, this time from Tuitahi as he fails to hold onto a quick pass from Folau.

Cronulla scrum on their 40m line.
 

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Cronulla make big metres down our right edge as we completely misread another backline move.

Moeakiola takes a fantastic catch on the other side of the field to diffuse the Cronulla raid and we receive a penalty to piggy back us up the field.
 

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Pauli makes some big metres to set us up for our own attacking raid.

Brasington puts up a pin point bomb and we recover it and scramble down the left hand side but Moeakiola delivers a poor offload to lose possession.

However Cronulla are pinged for being offside in the recovery and we get another set.

Pauli makes another big carry but can't score...we don't do much else but Gorman decides to do it himself with a well-weighted grubber to score his second.
 
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