Game Day: Manly v Knights [Round 8, 2016]

[ALinda]

Newcastle are going to be hard to beat up there. Will be happy to win by any margin and leave with the 2 points.

Spot on....if we've won the game before we've got there then I fear complacency will beat us.

 

[NewwyEagle]

So happy that Barrett is willing to change line ups. AFB definitely deserves a second game in first grade. The intensity and agro he showed last week was great and he'll improve with more time. I suspect he'll be very hard to drop in the future.

 

[hozza]

Let's not underestimate the knights. Yeah, they've been flogged this season but they've had only two home games, a win and a draw. I'd like to win by 40 as well but the knights, at home, on Anzac day after a flogging will be pumped.
Any kind of victory from our boys will please me.

I couldn't agree more newwyeagle. like you I live here and know only to well how pumped the Knights will be to win in front of a bumper Anzac crowd. Very nervous about this game..

 

[Garts]

The Kinights will be tough to beat. Coming off a flogging, playing at home on anzac day i would not be surprised to lose this one but beat more fancied team in the coming weeks.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

^ Agree that this will not be a walk in the park. Yes, we've shown some improvement over the first two weeks as well as a lot of heart, but right now, especially with key players out, we're just not a very good team. Any win we get we'll need to work for.

 

[Wombat64]

On what basis have you come up with this? Who is Parker?

spiderman

 

[FlyingHigh]

I thought Parcell was still a week away.

 

[manlyfan76]

Really really need to win this one, for our confidence, for our season and for Barrett.

 

[qldeagle]

Hope our points are higher than the amount of times we'll drop the ball. Fark me, flew down from Brizvegas last Thursday and nearly ripped the corporate signs off the fence. Can we please just catch the ball. Hopefully they've added this to their training regime.

 

[HappilyManly]

I thought Parcell was still a week away.

Express delivery

I want to see Wiliame belt out our victory song more than anything

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Really really need to win this one, for our confidence, for our season and for Barrett.

Not meaning to sound selfish here, but...they really need to win it for me!

(And all of us, of course)

 

[davohan123]

I couldn't agree more newwyeagle. like you I live here and know only to well how pumped the Knights will be to win in front of a bumper Anzac crowd. Very nervous about this game..

Agree this game makes me nervous think we are in for a close one here!!

 

[seaeagledave]

This is one of the best benches I've seen for a while. We must be able to get into the scoring zone with it.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

I thought Parcell was still a week away.

Maybe we splurged on express overnight delivery.

Edit - oops, Haha just saw HMs post above. Great minds think alike...

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Just remember in the past we've won games we weren't supposed to AND lost games we weren't supposed to.

I'm thinking we might surprise one or more of those more fancied teams ahead of us, some are due a loss and we do tend to lift against better sides.

I won't put us down for a loss but it's guaranteed that the Knights will be much much harder than everyone expects.

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

Korosau
Lussick
Parcell
Myles
Symonds
Taupau
Trbjovic

Bench
Brown
Fonua Blake
Lawrence
Vave

18th man
Leary

I do get excited when I see a Parcell in the post.

 

[SeaEagle21]

With the players available that is the best team we can put up, happy with it. Even though the Knights aren't the best team in the comp, no game in the NRL is a sure thing and being at Hunter it will be a tough game. I expect us to win not by a huge margin. Lets be honest we haven't got big points in us just yet.

 

[Andrew..]

Considering injuries, I'm very happy about the team Barrett has picked.

 

[HappilyManly]

I do get excited when I see a Parcell in the post.

We have Parcel(l) and email(iW) - now deliver the points Manly

 

[Fluffy]

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