Live: Piles get the first lead of 2025 in resorting competition against Draken

Some nice play on the second and third phase of the dragons.

The late offload of Jack de Belin lets the defense of the Palers together and Valentine Holmes gets once again in the field to Clint Gutheron, which accelerates through a hole and beats a few tacklingers to hit the ball under the posts.

It is a pretty muted celebration, and I think even the fans of Eels enjoyed that a bit.

Dylan Brown supports the defense and the ball comes from spitting.

Again, the dragons are called for the strip in a very similar place like the previous criminal goal, but this time the pales tap and try a big score.

An attempt at left shift ends with Christian Tuipulotu that was corrected in a corner on the sidelines.

He loses the ball in a tackle while he is on the floor and is called for a knock-on. The dragons think that there was an illegal second attempt by Zac Lomax, so they days out, but Tuipulotu knocked on while he caught the ball, so in the end it doesn’t matter at all.

Wasted challenge.

A few set of restart ends with a penalty objective of rights for the posts.

I think that was a happy call. Kyle Flanagan only seems to try to wrap the ball in a gangte tackle on Junior Paulo, not to tear.

Careless, Parramatta will hit the front for the first time in 2025.

2-0! Parradise is back, honey.

With a little help from an early penalty, the first set of the dragons takes them within a meter from the Tryline, where Christian Tuipulotu is caught on the latter.

And Toby Couchman takes the first load of the day.

Clint Gutherson and Damien Cook lead the dragons out and I mainly heard cheers with a few hunters mixed.

Here come the eels, who are still hunting their first victory of the year.

Former eel skipper Clint Gutheron is back in Parramatta with the Red V, while ex-Dragon Zac Lomax is in blue and gold in the Western Sydney Stadium. Both images still get used to it.

They have had very different weeks in their new colors, with Lomax and the eels who are still having their first victory, while the dragons come up with a shock victory on the Premiership favorites.

In the meantime, Parramatta is being strengthened by the arrival of Warriors tool Dylan Walker. He is on the couch with whore Ryley Smith, while Charlie Guymer takes over the starting Dummy-Halfrol from the young star.

Hello people and welcome to Saturday NRL promotion.

Today we have three very interesting competitions, with Clint Gutherson and the Dragons up against former member of the Red v Zac Lomax and the eels.

Later we have a Queensland derby between the Titans and Dolphins, before the Broncos accept the Tigers.