Newcastle Knights suffered their biggest ever loss on Old Boy's Day after falling to Parramatta 40-4 at McDonald Jones Stadium.
The heavily-depleted Knights, without seven regulars, were never in the hunt as the Eels ran in eight tries in the demolition.
Newcastle's sole four pointer was a consolation effort from Enari Tuala in the dying minutes.
Prior to the game, Newcastle's premiership-winning class of 2001 was paraded before the crowd as part of 20th anniversary celebrations and the club's Old Boys formed a guard of honour as Jayden Brailey led his young side out.
But the home side, missing Kalyn Ponga, Mitchell Pearce, David Klemmer, Tyson Frizell, Daniel Saifiti, Edrick Lee and Hymel Hunt, were far from inspired and gave themselves no chance in the contest with their worst disciplined display of the season.
Eight errors in the opening 40 minutes summed it up for the Knights, who conceded three tries in the final 10 minutes of the half to trail 22-0 at the break.
An early Brayden Musgrove mistake in the play-the-ball 25 metres out from his own line set the standard, giving the Eels their first opportunity with Ryan Matterson bursting through Tex Hoy from close range to cross after four minutes for a 4-0 lead.
The Knights only real chance of the half came 11 minutes in when Mitch Barnett got over the line but couldn't get the ball down.
Parramatta extended the advantage to 8 points midway through the half after winger Haze Dunster went over after the Knights failed to defuse a Mitch Moses cross kick that was batted back by Dylan Brown.
The home side hung in there despite the errors but the defensive load eventually took it's toll with barnstorming Eels winger Maika Sivo scoring twice through sheer power before Clint Gutherson dived over in the corner a minute out from the break after taking a dubious Sivo pass.
The hole got even deeper for Newcastle following a Clifford error two minutes into the second half deep in their own half.
Within a set, the Eels were in again with Shaun Lane getting a pass around the corner for Bryce Cartwright to score. Moses converted for a 28-0 lead.
It was 34-0 when Reed Mahoney put his centre Tom Opacic from close range after a Bradman Best error.
