NRL live updates: Parramatta Eels host Manly Sea Eagles ...

This is a thrilling end-to-end game with both players chancing their arm with the ball in hand.

The Sea Eagles are spinning it wide at every opportunity, and the Eels are living and dying by the offload — they've got a 12-3 advantage on that front, per StatsPerform.

Honestly, I've got no idea who's going to win this one, because it really does seem to be ebbing and flowing with whoever has a bit of possession. It'll likely come down to who can aim up in defence.

Just a simple shift out to the right puts Reuben Garrick over, but there will be some controversy about an apparent knock-on from Daly Cherry-Evans in the lead-up.

It looked like Parramatta may have knocked on first, so it may not have cost the Sea Eagles possession, but they did keep the momentum up rather than having to pack a scrum.

Regardless, it will definitely be a talking point.

Luke Brooks continues his scintillating start to the season, carving through the defence and putting a move on Clint Gutherson at the back to put Manly on the front foot.

The Sea Eagles have barely had a chance to attack in the past 15 minutes as Parramatta refuses to be caught with the ball in hand.

Teenage star Blaize Talagi goes over in his first NRL game, hitting a ball at speed out wide, stepping back in-field to run through the chest of Tom Trbojevic coming across in cover defence.

What a moment for the 19-year-old, who has a few dozen family members in the stands today.

Junior Paulo, Shaun Lane, Bryce Cartwright, Ryan Matterson … they're all looking to push the pass in the tackle and it's stretching the Manly defence.

The complexion of this game has completely changed and I think a lot of that is down to the introduction of Paulo and Matterson.

The last-tackle play fell apart and ended up in the hands of Blaize Talagi, who deftly dropped it on the toe for a grubber and it held up perfectly in the in-goal, forcing Lachlan Croker to take it dead for a line dropout.

Junior Paulo creates a try almost straight away after coming onto the park, standing and faking, poking his nose through and eventually popping a pass to Mitchell Moses to score.

Ben Trbojevic was isolated against the Test prop and just couldn't contain him.

Former Tigers teammates Moses and Brooks compete for a ball in the in-goal after Daly Cherry-Evans's grubber. Moses tries to claim Brooks knocked on before the Eels half knocked it dead, but the referees disagree.

Parramatta prop Joe Ofahengaue commits the cardinal sin, knocking on in the play the ball as he tries to work the ball off his line after a try.

Manly is straight back on the attack from 20 metres out.

Mitchell Moses kicks high into no man's land, and Clint Gutherson flies too early into Ben Trbojevic (was that a realistic leap?) and the ball sails over their heads into the waiting arms of Will Penisini to score.

Dylan Brown was called for a knock-on. He was adamant there were two players in the tackle and he was stripped. There weren't two players, but Daly Cherry-Evans did knock on while raking the ball out, so the challenge is technically successful.

But Brown's passing game isn't as sound as his challenge game, launching a ball over the sideline as he tries to pick out Morgan Harper on the left wing with a floating cut-out pass.

Manly is attacking the pairing of 19-year-old debutant Blaize Talagi, more often a five-eighth in the juniors rather than a centre, and Morgan Harper, a centre who's never played wing in the NRL.

And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's working for the Sea Eagles.

This time they just go through the hands and put Jaxson Paulo on the outside of Harper to touch down.

Reuben Garrick converts and just like that it's 14-0 to the Sea Eagles.

The second penalty conceded by J'Maine Hopgood piggybacks the Sea Eagles up the park and they immediately shift right.

Haumole Olakau'atu, Reuben Garrick and Jaxson Paulo are wreaking havoc down Morgan Harper's side of the field.

Meanwhile, centre Will Penisini is keeping the Sea Eagles at bay almost on his own on the other side of the field.

Manly puts it through the hands out to the right, with Tom Trbojevic putting Reuben Garrick outside Morgan Harper. Garrick burns his old running mate and chips over the top, with Trbojevic winning the race for the ball.

Honestly, after seeing Trbojevic battling in open space last year, it's great to see him outpacing Dylan Brown and three teammates to make it to the line there.

Joe Ofahenguae is pinged for a crusher tackle on Taniela Paseka and Reuben Garrick slots the penalty goal for a 2-0 lead after four minutes.

Ninety seconds into the game and Manly prop Josh Aloiai has convinced Daly Cherry-Evans to challenge a dropped ball, but he's spot on as the bunker pings J'Maine Hopgood for a strip in a two-man tackle.

Clint Gutherson is forced to take the first hit-up after the ball is allowed to bounce twice off the kick-off.

And Taniela Paseka picks up where he left off against the Roosters last week, rushing up and flattening Gutherson on the fourth, forcing Mitchell Moses to kick without momentum on the last.

Manly weathers the boos before Reagan Campbell-Gillard leads the Eels out for his 200th NRL game, alongside his two kids.