A dislocated kneecap to Parramatta fullback Luke Burt capped a horror night for the Eels after they were handed a 34-10 NRL thumping by Newcastle.

The Eels had no answer for what was a flawless display from the visitors, halfback Luke Walsh and skipper Danny Buderus leading the way in the six tries to two romp.

The loss was only the second at home for the Eels this season and it may have come at a high cost after Burt was forced from the field on the medicab six minutes after the break.

Play was held up for some time as the NRL's leading pointscorer was taken off after Buderus landed on his knee as the Knights defence had trapped the in-form custodian in his own in-goal.

The injury had little impact on the result however after the Knights had run up a 20-0 lead by the break.

They erased any doubt about the two competition points three plays later when quick hands to the right allowed James McManus to get outside a Parramatta defensive line which had been reshuffled as a result of Burt's injury.

Newcastle made it 30-0 when a Cory Patterson short ball, one of a litany of Knights offloads in the greasy conditions, put George Carmont over for his second of the night.

The home side finally got on the board when Feleti Mateo ran through a yawning gap to crash over, but any thought of adding respectability to the scoreboard vanished when Adam MacDougall again exposed Parramatta's left hand defence to make it 34-4.

Eels centre Krisnan Inu added his side's second try of the night in the closing stages and he may have secured a role as Burt's replacement kicker after converting from near the sideline.

Newcastle were awesome in the opening 40 as they ran in three unanswered tries, the first coming after just three minutes when Mitchell Sargent crossed under the sticks after fellow prop Adam Woolnough had offloaded with three defenders hanging off him.

NSW forward Steve Simpson made it 12-0 when he backed a Daniel Abraham grubber and clever pick up and pass from veteran centre MacDougall.

The Eels threatened to get into the contest when they earned a pair of repeat sets, but it proved to be an exception to the rule with halves Tim Smith and Brett Finch enduring disappointing nights with the boot.

Buderus ensured the Knights made the most of their dominance when he capitalised on some slack marker defence, bursting out of dummy half from his own side of halfway to give Carmont a saloon passage to the line.

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