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Ryan said:Your right Ralphie, but I'd suggest you not bother trying to prove that point. Ok, it's great winning in the season proper and all, and I'd much prefer that to losing all the way through - but in big games, we do appear to get out coached.
In fact, against good, top 4 teams we tend to struggle.
In all but one of the games Manly played against the other top 4 sides this year, we have been missing our best (and most important) player in Brett Stewart. In the one game against a top 4 side he did play in (v Souths), i believe we would have won had a Tom Symonds try been awarded like it should have. If Ralphie can add weight to his argument by pulling out the 'controversy card' for the hand of Foran call in the NQ final (even though Manly completely outplayed the cowboys that night) then why can't he also say that controversy cost manly against Souths. Souths did after all, go the length of the field off the back of that penalty and score a try in that set of six. It was a 12 point turn around. We were certainly not out-coached that night. We had a draw in Melbourne without Brett Stewart Playing. Not out- coached again. We lost once to the roosters without Brett Stewart and once without Kieran Foran, both times we were still in with a chance of winning with less than ten minutes remaining. I believe both games were more than winnable had those players played. But if you Toovey haters want to judge manly on those stats then go ahead. Last year manly were defending premiers. Remind again how we went with Hasler as coach when we were defending Premiers? We certainly didn't make it to a GF qualifier that's for sure. In fact we scraped into the eight. We only made the eight because Melbourne were not playing for points. Had Melbourne been competing for points we would have missed the finals.