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Parramatta manager Brad Arthur manager remained defiant aft the dense decision to Brisbane, declaring his broadside tin inactive marque the finals.

The Eels matched it with the Broncos successful the archetypal 20 minutes but an wounded to Eels prima playmaker Mitchell Moses with a suspected facial fracture, Parramatta capitulated successful the 2nd half.

"I deliberation it was the 3rd oregon 4th infinitesimal of the crippled wherever [the injury] happened, truthful highly pugnacious [of Moses] to play connected until halftime," Eels manager Brad Arthur said.

"We had to marque the determination that helium didn't spell backmost retired successful the 2nd half, helium wanted to spell backmost on,"

"It conscionable shows you a batch astir the full team; I cognize it wasn't a large nighttime for us, but it's not similar we didn't travel present to effort and our cognition was off, the cognition was on, you could spot that successful the archetypal 20 minutes.

"We were conscionable beaten by a squad that was excessively bully for us, arsenic elemental arsenic that. We had immoderate carnage and they were conscionable excessively good."

The Eels person a bye successful the tally location and they'll request it with matches scheduled against the Roosters and premiers the Panthers.

"[The loss] makes it tough, but we're not giving up," Arthur added. "We're going to support fighting.

"Until it's over, we're going to support fighting. We've got 2 games and a bye and we'll conscionable interest astir adjacent week and reassess erstwhile we get backmost and see.

"There's a spot of carnage present successful presumption of immoderate injuries, but we get Reg (Reagan Campbell Gillard) backmost and Maika (Sivo) adjacent week, and we're conscionable going to combat on.

"This squad has been warring each twelvemonth and we are going to proceed to fight."