Game Day: Warriors v Manly [Round 21, 2019]

[Little Grubber Kick]

The refs have been an absolute disgrace this game

hahahahah, good one

 

[Cioran]

Well, hopefully we learn from that. Des needs to get into Cherry’s ear about panic football and kicking on zero and 2nd tackles when attacking in the 20. Also, putting Api back on at that time when we had momentum was weird, especially given he is a dummy half.

That might make us fire up against the Tigers and Raiders.

Cherry will always panic and make bad decisions under pressure. It just seems to be in his DNA. I really can’t fault his effort though. We need our forwards to be on top to get the best out of Cherry.

 

[SeaEagle21]

Looked like an acl. Completely innocuous tapping the ball.

His strike rate with injury will be an issue with him going fwd, has had a stack of them poor buggar.

 

[susan]

Costly. With our draw maybe lose home final now

Attitude is amazing component at this level. Off a bit
and you lose

The boys will bounce back next week at home

The quality they showed last 10 minutes shows they are a very good footy side

 

[Mal Cochrane]

Did I miss something, why did dice try and catch up to the ball to tap it back instead of of diving for it to score a try.

 

[mickqld]

1 team showed up prepared to show commitment, attitude and will to put their bodies on the line. The other showed up flat, poor committment and expecting an easy win.

 

[HappilyManly]

Perhaps Tom's been reading his headlines

Turns out Turbo is not Invincible

Turbo had a bad game in a Team of baddies

Why he persisted with tipoffs and kicks up the middle is a mystery

Their centres and 5/8 were always running out of the line and Manly never thought to kick behind them

Oh well, should be a big wake up call

 

[Andyvb88]

Cherry will always panic and make bad decisions under pressure. It just seems to be in his DNA. I really can’t fault his effort though. We need our forwards to be on top to get the best out of Cherry.

Always??? How many times has he got us home with a field goal? This is an overaction

 

[mickqld]

Any gold coasters get stuck in the sht awful traffic this arvo. Infrastructure on southern gold coast is as farcical as that performance.

 

[Cioran]

Always??? How many times has he got us home with a field goal? This is an overaction

Point taken and I quite agree. Kicking field goals under pressure is definitely one of his talents. He mostly stuffs up when he has time to think.

 

[Waz13]

Is there any update on Red? Tbh the crap weather always evens games up. Warriors were playing for their season and prob wanted it a bit more. Funny thing is they stopped us with our own defensive pattern. The good old up and in. Due to the weather everything was a bit slower. Also some might not agree but the last two weeks we have been matched or beaten early in the forward battle, which slows down the run through the middle. A dry track and we win that game with ease. I also thought the fact one of their players wasn’t binned in the first half was big. We jag a try in the first half and it’s a different game. Some complain that it took for Blair to be binned to get our run on however I thought they could have had a couple in the bin in the first half they were infringing that badly. Oh well tigers on thurs is now a must win. With the top 4 playing each other on Sunday, no prick was talking about us this week anyway. Oh well back under the radar, just the way we like it.

 

[davohan123]

With so much on the line... Pathetic effort.

Think they got ahead of themselves and was reading own press

 

[The Royal Soup]

so when we had 33 tackles in their 20 and they had 5 it was the refs fault. Come on we were terrible.

I said that at the start of my post


But when you have NZ spoiling the ruck and jumping offside all night you can have all the ball in the game and still won’t do any good

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

The better team won on the night and credit to their coach for doing his homework on shutting us down especially in the conditions but I ask just one question: does DCE in an attacking position kick on the first of seven tackles if he's playing for QLD vs NSW?

 

[Shnorky]

And the good news is - des has fixed the radar

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

With so much on the line... Pathetic effort.

It’s always there, lurking in the team DNA. Happens to most teams at some point.

 

[40 nil]

Ambush? Better side on night won. With hindsight, it may have been useful to take the early penalty goals. At least our attack had some spark towards the end. Seems Garrick has his goal kicking eye back in

On to next week and the Tigers! Payback needed as they have beaten us three times in a row (at least). If Parker is out, I think now is the time to blood Funa with Walker staying at five eighth - IMO, he played well in the first part of the game.

Interesting that Des praised Harris-Tavita pre game. I had the feeling he was worried about this game. He similarly praised the Titans attack prior to the Brookie clash earlier in the season.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Congratulations to the Warriors. Came up with a game plan to nullify our attack and executed it beautifully. Their own attack was just as good.

You never congratulate the opposition, especially the Maoriors, unless you want to be considered a good sport.

 

[Cioran]

We’re building for the future. At the beginning of the year the fringes of the 8 would have been great. Even now 5 or 6 would be a very good result. If they can win one finals match we should be very happy. Tonight just gives another measure for how we are going, and we are going well.

 

[HoldenV8]

Jake was flat that's why the pass went forward. Api tried to run him onside before passing so I'd blame Jake for the f up

So you don't blame Api for actually passing it when Jake was in front of him?

OK.....