It wasn't so much a game of two halves as a game of two edges as the North Queensland Cowboys eviscerated a dysfunctional Parramatta left edge. By contrast Bryce Cartwright and Will Penisini lit up the second half down the right side of the field but it proved to be barely too little too late.

Sixties and Forty20 jump into a tough instant reaction podcast as they dissect a costly first half. Injury was added to insult as well as Shaun Lane rounded out a nightmare season of injuries with a brutal elbow dislocation to go with a broken jaw and a torn hamstring.

Valiant efforts from Clinton Gutherson, Bryce Cartwright and Will Penisini not only mitigated a potentially ugly hit to the team's points differential but somehow put the Eels into an unlikely position to win the game. The boys look at how much more time Parramatta needed to get over the line and whether they made the right call to not take a shot at goal in the closing exchanges of the game.