The Dolphins go on the attack, Averillo forces a drop out, the pressure builds until Plath dives over from dummy half following a quick play-the-ball from K.Bromwich. Good hit-back from the Phins! Isaako converts and it’s back to 12-6.

A Lemuelu error gives the ball straight back to the Roosters, Walker kicks for himself from 20 out, Tabuai-Fidow is caught out of position and Walker is on hand to score a ripper of a try!

Walker converts his own score and it’s 12-0 Roosters, the Dolphins are yet to pass halfway.

Crichton and Watson link with some offloads through the middle and it puts Tedesco away, he’s got Walker in the support, Walker steps inside and looks for Tedesco again.

He’s dragged down centimetres out and looks to score but Farnworth manages to dislodge the ball at the last second. Phins got away with one there.

Lemuelu makes an error on his own 40 and the Roosters will have the first chance of the night.

They strip them for numbers down the left, Keary goes to Suaalii and the big centre steps inside some feeble defence to score. An ominous start for the Roosters. Walker converts and it’s 6-0 Roosters.

And we’re away in the west! Roosters get us started, running left to right.

The Warriors look for some more late points, Johnson throws a nice cut out pass to Watene-Zelezniak, the line is at his mercy but as he steps inside a desperate Gutherson knocks the ball out. That just about sums this one up.

Watene-Zelezniak does get one in the end, on the last play of the game following a Johnson cross-kick, but it’s not enough. Harris-Tavita converts the try after the siren.

A good win for the Eels that gives them a major boost in their attempts to avoid the wooden spoon.

Watene-Zelezniak makes a bust down the right, he’s got Egan inside and the dummy half gets dragged down metres out. Tago slows down the play-the-ball and gets binned for it, the Warriors sore when Johnson goes short to Niukore a few tackles later but the halfback misses the kick and it’s 30-14 to Parra. 

The Warriors finally find some joy – Johnson holds up a pass well to create some space for Nicoll-Klokstad and the fullback goes 30 metres to finally find some joy for the home side. Johnson converts but at 30-10 it might be too little, too late. 

Brown blows straight pass Harris-Tavita, Gutherson is in support and the Eels are in again! This is one of their best performances of the year and a well deserved try for the skipper. He converts it and it’s a huge lead now, 30-4.

Tago drops a spiralling Johnson bomb and the Eels challenge it and they get the call. Everything’s coming up Parramatta right now.

Penalty on Harris-Tavita for a trip, then he almost keeps the kick for touch in the field of play only to just step on the line. Parra on the attack.

Brown and Asi combine down the left, Talagi runs a good line and bursts into the clear for a try! A bittersweet moment given the impressive youngster is heading to Penrith next year.

That should just about wrap us up. Gutherson converts and it’s a big lead for the Eels now at 24-4

Tago makes an error under a tough kick from Johnson and the Warriors will get the chance they’ve been waiting for. Attack has been a struggle for them tonight, they haven’t really threatened much apart from their try in the first half…let’s see what they’ve got.

But Capewell drops it cold on the second tackle to relieve the pressure! What a disaster.

The Warriors go up to contest a bomb, it falls for Leiataua and the young centre is over…but the Bunker wants a look at it and they correctly deny it for a knock-on from Ale in the lead-up.

Watene-Zelezniak takes a carry and is slow to get up, he’s furious at the ref about something – it gets reviewed, but Watene-Zelezniak makes an official complaint that he was….there’s no other way to say it, that he was grabbed on the groin by an Eels player. We’ll have to wait until the match review committee has a look at it, but that’s an unusual one.

A Tago error off a kick gives the Eels a fresh set and Ale pushes hard for the line but the ball comes loose and Gutherson picks it up and rockets up-field.

The Eels go to work, Hands gets through, he has Brown in support but the cover gets him and Ale forces the ball out. Good make-up effort from the big man.

And we’re back at it in Auckland!

An error and a penalty give the Warriors a chance to put another two on the board in the final seconds before halftime but Johnson shanks the easy kick! That just about sums up their half, really poor for a team playing for their season.

Graham-Taufa drops an easy pass on the attack and the Eels will take a good lead into halftime.

A strong tackle from Hands on Harris-Tavita forces a drop out, they go short and Gutherson cleans up the scraps, he drifts across-field and Asi runs a nice line to bust through and score next to the posts! The Eels are on fire! Gutherson converts and it’s Eels 18-4.

Back-to-back penalties get the Warriors out of their own end and put them on the attack and they make the most of it with a beautiful sweep down their left which ends with Tuivasa-Sheck going over in the corner.

There is some contact from Capewell, who ran one of the decoys….but it’s been cleared. A sorely needed try for the Warriors, will that wake them up?

Johnson misses the kick and it’s 12-4 Eels.