The Hayne Plane was back in service as 2012 wooden spooner Parramatta began life under Ricky Stuart with an eye-catching 40-10 thumping of the Warriors on Saturday evening.

Eels superstar Jarryd Hayne lit up Parramatta Stadium with a breathtaking hat-trick in his first game as co-captain, his combination with rejuvenated half-back Chris Sandow - who finished with 16 points of his own - gave the blue and gold faithful hope the dark days of last year may be ending.

"I was just really happy that we put ourselves into a position to win the game," Stuart told Grandstand.

"Our goal all week was for the crowd to leave here seeing that we compete and that we're tough, and I think the crowd left here today with that perception.

"But I stress that its only our first game, we don't want to be putting all our eggs in one basket and then falling out of favour in regards to the way we play.

"If we don't improve on that effort we won't get within 20 points of the Bulldogs.

"They're a class team and we've got a lot of work to do before we can compete with the Bulldogs."

Three unanswered tries in the first half set up the win but Stuart would no doubt have been impressed with the resolve his players showed in the second half when the Warriors threatened a comeback.

Jacob Lillyman and Dane Nielsen both scored for a largely disappointing visitors outfit to trim Parramatta's lead to 18-10, but the Eels kicked clear thanks largely to their talismanic full-back.

Hayne's effort to chase down his own bomb on 63 minutes gave the Eels a repeat set of six, off the back of which Ken Sio scored in the corner.

It shifted the momentum back Parramatta's way, Hayne putting the exclamation mark on an outstanding performance with great support play to score tries in the 66th and 69th minutes, Sio scoring his second in the dying stages.

But unlike last year this was no one-man show for the Eels, Sandow's long kicking game and cheekiness around the ruck reminding everybody just why Parramatta paid $500,000 a year to bring him across from South Sydney.

New Warriors coach Matthew Elliott has plenty of work to do with his side maintaining the struggles which typified its performances last year.

Compounding his problems is an ankle injury which had Manu Vatuvei limping off before a quarter of the game had passed, while Elijah Taylor became the first player put on report under the new shoulder charge ban in the 45th minute.

The Eels played 50 minutes without five-eighth Luke Kelly who suffered a hamstring strain, while Jacob Loko, in his first game back from a knee reconstruction, limped off just before the final siren.

Elliott did not let injury excuse his side's performance.

"Shaun [Johnson] was fit to play and obviously Manu's one little bit of concern," he said.

"But we had guys out there that were ready to play a game of footy and we just didn't get enough guys to make the decision to commit to that for 80 minutes."

Eels: 40 (J Hayne 3, K Sio 2, C Sandow, M Ryan tries; Sandow 6/7 conversions)

Warriors: 10 (J Lillyman, D Nielsen tries; S Johnson 1/2 conversions)

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