Eels 'playing for pride' after 'embarrassing' season

The Roosters' person each but ended the Eels' last hopes aft securing a 34-12 triumph astatine CommBank Stadium.

Speaking post-match, Dylan Brown was disappointed with the outcome.

"We stung ourselves successful the foot," helium told Nine's Danika Mason.

"We went retired determination and we tried our best. We knew we had to, our play was connected the line. It's a spot silly for america to marque it travel down to this but it is what it and we conscionable person to spell retired adjacent week and decorativeness disconnected the play well."

Brown described the team's autumn from past year's expansive last to extracurricular the apical 8 arsenic "embarrassing".

"It's a rude shock, you're utilized to winning [and] making the apical eight, and this twelvemonth we person conscionable fallen retired of it," helium said.

Scheduled to conscionable the Panthers adjacent week earlier a bye successful the last circular of the regular season, Brown said the squad would inactive transportation a winning mentality.

"We're conscionable playing for pridefulness now," helium said.

"We've got fans retired determination that we've inactive got to correspond and we're [still] wearing our nine logo, truthful we inactive person to correspond [the club] and spell retired and effort our best."