IT’S the well-publicised Parramatta training session that left players bloodied and bruised.

Now Eels star Jarryd Hayne has lifted the lid on his role in firing up his teammates ahead of Sunday’s big 44-10 win over Manly, their first of the season.

After starting the season with six straight losses, reports emerged that coach Brad Arthur had lost the dressing room, something which left the players “pissed off” and led to a crisis meeting.

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Round 20

But things turned heated on the training paddock last Thursday with Eels players bashing each other leaving some with battle wounds.

“The emotion we’ve had to put up with and all the articles and that sort of stuff during the week ... what really set everyone off was the way they spoke about Brad saying he lost the changeroom,” Hayne told Fox League on Sunday.

“That was something really stung all of us.

“We were doing an opposed session and we started terrible so, it was a collective but I just ripped everyone, especially our middles.

“That’s our engine room and if they’re not starting well, we can’t do anything.

“I think everyone just flipped the switch and bought into the session.

“It was emotional, it was physical but we all bought in.

“There was a bit of push and shove there but we did it out of love and wanting to get the best out of each other.”

It definitely worked, with the Eels pack monstering their Sea Eagles equivalents.

Tim Mannah, who was one of the players left bleeding after the brutal session, ran for an impressive 163 metres, while Daniel Alvaro (122) and Manu Ma’u (126) were also among the Eels’ best.

“We spoke all week that we wanted to go through them, we really wanted to take them to the wire and I thought the boys did that well,” Hayne said.

Eels coach Brad Arthur admitted post-game that some of his high performance staff wanted to stop the opposed session when the intensity peaked.

“They were halfway through our main session and something just clicked,” Arthur said.

“They’d had a gutful of each other and they just ripped in.

“We had some staff that wanted to pull it up because it was getting pretty competitive but it was exactly what we needed.

“We need to make sure we keep it.”

Meanwhile, Hayne hoped he wouldn’t be sidelined for long after re-injuring his hip flexor midway through the first half.

The centre set up Ma’u for the Eels’ first try of the day before needing to come from the field.

“It’s a bit lower than the original injury, but we’ll get it scanned during the week,” Hayne said.

“We don’t think it’s as bad as when I first did it.

“We covered off everything we could during the week and to do it early on, it’s obviously disappointing.”