{"id":780122,"date":"2026-07-05T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:24:18","slug":"messy-manly-made-to-pay-as-eels-engineer-nrl-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780122\/","title":{"rendered":"Messy Manly made to pay as Eels engineer NRL upset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parramatta have thrown a major spanner into Manly’s top-four hopes, condemning an uncharacteristically wasteful Sea Eagles side to a 23-14 NRL defeat.<\/p>\n

Without Mitchell Moses and Junior Paulo, the Eels claimed the sixth – and most impressive – win of their 2026 campaign at CommBank Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Five-eighth Ronald Volkman was a constant menace for the Eels while fill-in halfback Jonah Pezet marked his return to NRL action for the first time in three months with the decisive try and a field goal.<\/p>\n

\"Ronald<\/p>\n

Ronald Volkman (6), seen tackling Tom Trbojevic, shone in attack and defence. (Dan Himbrechts\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

On the flipside, this was one of the most underwhelming showings of Kieran Foran’s tenure at Manly as the Sea Eagles lost ground in the battle for a top-four finish.<\/p>\n

Rookie playmaker Joey Walsh, who is expected to be the club’s five-eighth for the rest of the year with Luke Brooks sidelined with an ACL injury, grabbed a try.<\/p>\n

But the moments of magic were few and far between for the Sea Eagles who made 17 errors and completed at just 68 per cent.<\/p>\n

Manly were clunky both sides of the ball, despite getting on the board first through a Jamal Fogarty penalty.<\/p>\n

Parramatta then grabbed the game’s first try when a fleet-footed Volkman sidestepped Corey Waddell in the 26th minute.<\/p>\n

Lehi Hopoate crossed on the left wing and Fogarty added another penalty to give the Sea Eagles an 8-6 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Dylan Walker recorded a strong contender for try assist of the year with a round-the-back pass to set up Eels back-rower Kelma Tuilagi. <\/p>\n

\"Jonah<\/p>\n

Jonah Pezet iced the win with his 70th-minute try for the Eels. (Dan Himbrechts\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

But while Walker was still busy waving to the crowd at the restart, Reuben Garrick noticed, kicked and regathered his own short kick-off.<\/p>\n

Garrick’s quick thinking paid dividends as Manly rolled downfield and finished with Walsh barging his way over with the help of the post padding.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Iongi hit back for the Eels to re-take the lead and Jason Ryles’ men pulled away in the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

After Tuilagi dropped the ball with the line beckoning, Pezet took matters into his own hands, grubbering to himself and touching down.<\/p>\n

Pezet then nudged an opportunistic field goal to seal victory as Parramatta leapfrogged Brisbane and Gold Coast into 14th spot on the NRL ladder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parramatta have thrown a major spanner into Manly’s top-four hopes, condemning an uncharacteristically wasteful Sea Eagles side to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4463,4590,27285,44450,761,762,158,16390,4615,4523,85,27096],"class_list":["post-780122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dylan-walker","tag-joey-walsh","tag-jonah-pezet","tag-manly","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-parramatta","tag-ronald-volkman","tag-sea-eagles","tag-sports","tag-the-eels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780122","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=780122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}