Under-fire Parramatta coach Stephan Kearney is likely to stick with the players who guided the Eels to a historic loss to South Sydney when they face heavyweights Manly on Saturday.
Despite losing 56-6 to the rampant Rabbitohs at ANZ Stadium tonight, Kearney admitted the Eels didn’t have the depth to ring the changes before their Parramatta Stadium showdown with their archrivals.
Parramatta have suffered a number of gallant defeats in recent weeks but the ANZ Stadium thumping - Parramatta's worst defeat against Souths since the 1950s - has many pundits tipping the Eels for the wooden spoon.
“The way these guys have performed over the past 10 weeks, except for tonight, has been pretty good,” Kearney said.
“We have a couple of choices, our commitment and attitude wasn’t good enough.
“There’s four weeks to go, the choice is ours.
“We play Manly on Saturday night.”
Kearney, who was a premiership-winning assistant at Melbourne and has led New Zealand to World Cup and Four Nations triumphs, admitted Parramatta’s performance was unacceptable.
“They jumped on us, we didn’t get back into the game,” Kearney said.
“I was very disappointed with the commitment levels tonight.”
Parramatta skipper Nathan Hindmarsh refused to blame his side’s torrid recent run for tonight’s spectacular flame-out.
“I certainly don’t want to make excuses, whether the past 10 weeks have taken their toll is not acceptable,” Hindmarsh said.
“It’s not so much the scoreline as the way they scored their tries.
“There was some easy one-on-one tackles we missed.
“If we do that against Manly they’ll put double that on us.”
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