What better way to finish the Easter weekend of football than the traditional showdown between the Eels and Wests Tigers at a heaving CommBank Stadium.<\/p>\n
Coming off a superb win over the Warriors, Benji’s boys are riding high and ready to showcase their attacking flair against an Eels side that has been dealt a rough hand with injuries.<\/p>\n
The Eels sit 2-2 after four rounds but they have conceded a tick under 40 points per game – a number coach Jason Ryles certainly won’t be pleased with.<\/p>\n
Follow all the action from Round 5 of the NRL Telstra Premiership on NRL.com’s live blog.<\/p>\n
Eels v Wests Tigers at CommBank Stadium<\/p>\n
Late Mail<\/p>\n
Eels:\u00a0No late changes on game day for Jason Ryles who was forced to navigate another week of injuries. Young gun Joash Papalii steps in at fullback in place of Isaiah Iongi (ankle) while the newly re-signed Charlie Guymer comes on to the bench after Matt Doorey went down with an ACL injury. Veteran forward Jack de Belin and fullback Apa Twidle were also added to the six-man interchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wests Tigers:\u00a0Tristan Hope has been added to the six-man bench 90 minutes before kick-off with Bunty Afoa making way and lining up in the NSW Cup curtain-raiser. Young gun Faaletino Tavana retains his place on the wing, with Sunia Turuva to line up in the centres for the third-straight week.<\/p>\n
Numbers Game<\/p>\n
The Eels have won four of their six Easter Monday clashes with Wests Tigers.
\nWests Tigers have defeated the Eels in three of their last four games at CommBank Stadium.
\nEels halfback Mitchell Moses requires three points for 500 points at CommBank Stadium.
\nWests Tigers centre Sunia Turuva has scored seven tries in his last four games against the Eels.
\nEels prop Jack Williams will make his 150th NRL appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What better way to finish the Easter weekend of football than the traditional showdown between the Eels and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-588518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}