Parramatta Eels

A Will Kennedy hat-trick led the Sharks to a 30-26 win over the Eels in a Friday night shootout at CommBank Stadium.

“I am sure it was a cracking game for the neutrals to watch, thought it was ebbing and flowing. You don’t come here and get a free hit and they were playing for Mitch’s 200th and Paulo’s 150th, I thought we had an opportunity to put the screws into them, bit disappointed we let them off the hook there, but also I am proud of the spirit amongst them and the effort, we’ll get the tactical and technical parts right. Taking the ball five metres on his own side of halfway, Moylan went to the line and bamboozled Eels lock J'maine Hopgood with a show-and-go. Kennedy ran for183 metres on the night to go with three line breaks and the first hat-trick of his career. After defending their line grimly for three sets the Sharks broke away through an intercept by Ronaldo Mulitalo, who was cut down by Moses in a great cover tackle. He also ran for 180 metres on the night.

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It's a long, long season so we don't need to start stressing now." They didn't have to work too hard for a lot of them." That's the rule," he said. It's disappointing, but it's the way the game is. The Sharks scored twice in the 15 minutes when Gutherson was pulled off by the independent doctor and the Eels struggled to continue their early dominance. We've got a short turnaround into Manly and we just have to believe in what we're doing and that what we're doing will work. "It's part of the game. "(It was) disappointing because you obviously don't want to go off. We just have to deal with it and we have to deal with it better," Arthur said. Jirah Momoisea played 23 minutes. "We've got a lot of good players that start for us in Junior and Reg and I think they're pretty important to the team," he told reporters in the post-match press conference. As a result two players failed to take the field in the club's opening two rounds, leaving the team's props on the field for extended periods on the field.