Parramatta Eels Holden Cup

[Forty20]

Brasington hits another conversion to lock it up again.

18 all with 53 minutes gone.

 

[Forty20]

Pauli Pauli with yet another great hit up, who is followed up by Moeroa who makes good metres again.

Gorman is breaks the line by himself but cant find support. Big effort in this second half from him.

Cronulla are pinged for the second effort.

Here we go.

 

[Forty20]

And we are able to capitalise as Clay hits Ualesi with an early ball down our right edge. Ualesi runs a nice line through some flimsy defence to put us in front.

 

[Forty20]

Brasington adds the extras with ease.

We are back in front at 24-18

57 minutes gone.

 

[Twizzle]

This Gorman kid goes OK, KK Mark II

 

[Forty20]

Pauli eating up metres again to fire up our pack,

Masinamua gets a decent offload off to put us further down the field.

We end our set with a decent kick chase.

 

[Forty20]

Tuitahi with another vigorous kick return.

We are generating some second phase play now, forcing Cronulla on the backfoot.

Brasington puts up an ordinary bomb but we trap Cronulla 10m out from their line.

Once again we concede a penalty to give Cronulla a sniff.

 

[Forty20]

Now it is Cronulla with some quality second phase play but we scramble hard in defence.

We charge down the grubber and Clay receives a pass and goes on a run downfield, however there is a massive effort from a Cronulla chaser to bundle him into touch 5m out from the try line.

Huge effort there from the Cronulla front rower..who ends up getting a knock from another cover defender for his efforts.

 

[Forty20]

Vescio on now.

 

[Forty20]

Gorman puts Mauala through half a gap but then spills Mauala's return offload to give up possession.

65 minutes gone

 

[Forty20]

There has been a noticeable improvement in the defencive effort over the last 20 minutes.

We are working our way out of our own half in a solid set and receive another penalty. The count is now 8-6 to Cronulla.

BUT f**k ME DEAD...off the tap restart we drop the f**king pill.

 

[Forty20]

Folau misses his opposite number but Clay and company scramble really hard to wrap him up before he can score.

Good marker defence catches the dive over attempt to close out Cronulla's set.

We are working it out before Mauala has a f**king loose carry on the 40m line to gift Cronulla possession.

 

[Forty20]

And we are made to pay for stupid f**king errors. Up until now our goal line defence was looking strong in the second half but a Cronulla forward crashes over from an offload.

Speculation that Tuitahi hit a Cronulla player late with a shoulder charge.

The conversion is good.

Score is tied up at 24 all.

72 min gone.

We may cost ourselves another game with stupid mistakes

 

[Forty20]

And now there is a serious injury concern for Frazer Masinamua

Cronulla take an awful attempt at a field goal.

 

[Forty20]

We roll the dice with the ball in hand on the last down our left edge but it doesn't amount to much.

Cronulla rucking it out 30m out from their line.

74 minutes gone.

 

[Willface]

Why the wraps on broadhurst, seen him 3 times now and he has looked terrible each time

 

[Forty20]

And now Cronulla run the ball on the last and get caught.

And from the turn over, Moeakiola drops the ball on the first so Cronulla have a huge chance here.

 

[Forty20]

Weak stuff.

Clay is left isolated with Cronulla's #12 (who has had a huge game) and he storms over out wide on our right edge.

 

[El Diablo]

weak as piss

 

[Forty20]

The conversion is good.

Cronulla have what looks like the game winning lead at 30-24

78 minutes gone