Parramatta Eels Blog: The 1Eyed Eel

Wade McKinnon - 6 (82)
Routinely beat tackles and his kick return and support play was excellent. However, he should have cleaned up the kick that led to the first try, attempting to kick the ball clear rather than diving and pushing it out with his hands. A couple of errors also let his game down.

Luke Burt - 6 (104)
He's been tried at fullback and centre, but Luke Burt's real home is on the wing. Showed great pace to run down a Lee Hopkins kick in the opening minutes but unfortunately just had his boot on the sideline.

Ben Smith - 5 (11)
The big centre made an awful attempted tackle on Pat Richards who fended him off before scooting downfield. Also made an error, turning the ball over when the Eels were on the attack.

Luke O'Dwyer - 6 (33)
Defence was exceptional and did some helpful work out of dummy half. Got pulled into touch but didn't have a lot of room to work with on that occasion.

Matt Peterson - 7 (90)
Continued his good form, despite not having a lot of opportunities. Continually got into dummy half to help Parramatta work their way out of trouble.

Daniel Wagon - 6 (102)
Solid in defence but had no impact in attack.

Chris Thorman - 5 (29)
Kicking game was awful. Made one nice break, but didn't kick on as the Eels would have hoped after last week's promising performance. Woeful attempt at tackle let Brett Hodgson make a big break downfield.

Corey Pearson - 7 (51)
Beautiful little ball put Shane Muspratt into a gap, creating one of the Eels' few breaks all night. Took the ball up all night and was tough in defence.

Shane Muspratt - 5 (25)
Was occassionally very good, occasionally very bed.

Michael Vella - 6 (109)
He made a number of good, powerful runs but again seemed to go missing for period. Only eight hit-ups.

Nathan Hindmarsh - 8 (122)
Was everywhere for Parramatta. Most tackles, most hit-ups, try-saving tackles, feeding from off-loads, dummy half runs, his game had it all. Problem is every time he did get the ball, the Tigers pounced on him in numbers. Needs support.

Craig Stapleton - 7 (124)
Another fine hame, highlighted by some, tough-bullocking runs.

Lee Hopkins - 7 (7)
Tried hard to spark the Eels and his grubber through for Luke Burt almost came up trumps.

Dean Widders - 7 (114)
Only real blight to his game was the dropped ball that led to the Tigers second try. Otherwise, did plenty of work and looked dangerous out wide.

Jack Afamasaga - 4 (57)
Couple of key errors and had limited impact in attack

Adam Peek - 5 (56)
Didn't make any mistakes.

Justin Tsoulos - 6 (76)
Slipped some great offloads which started second phase play for the Eels. However, a couple of errors let him down.