And your 2017 wooden spooners are...Manly

[Loobs]

I'm happy to meet you halfway on this one Bob.....there is a place for negativity, it's the delusional negativity which gets a hate rating from me! But then so does delusional positivity 😉

Here we are after 2 losses (the first one due to one of the most blatant 'official riggings' and the second we were still tied with 20 to go after being deprived of 2 players from the first!) and there are calls for the wooden spoon, this is more than delusional negativity, it is plain whacked in the head.....😱

Happy mediums died with the evolution of the internet.

 

[Loobs]

i'm still missing the humour, but the issue is that the side has not progressed in any discernible way under TB. Losses I can cop, but lets see something that gives us hope for the future. I'm still waiting, and I was firmly in the give Trent a chance camp. Seriously, if we took Tom T out of our side, we are wooden spoon favourites.

Last game is a write off. You take 3 top props out of any team and they will lack the ability to go forward and set a platform for any kind of smooth attacking play. Especially when the draw puts you against one of the biggest packs. You just can't replace that oopmh. Having said that I'd agree with others that Barrett stuffed his bench selections royally.

I do wonder what Canberra fans are thinking right now? They have a better 1-17 roster than us and have started worse. Where are they pinning the blame..?

 

[Mataiforever]

2008, Manly, started 0-2. "Sack Des" calls - 0.

because des was proven to be quality, and our playing group were far superior so it was evident these two losses weren't going to become a habit... as they werent... cos we won the comp

 

[Pittwater Legend]

Yeah, but we went to the GF the year before. That is one ridiculous analogy.

Adding on to that. Round 1 was a 6 point loss to the Sharks, who ended up finishing the season in equal 1st with us and the Storm. Round 2 was 1 point loss to

because des was proven to be quality, and our playing group were far superior so it was evident these two losses weren't going to become a habit... as they werent... cos we won the comp

One of those losses was a 6 point loss to the Sharks, who finished equal first that year with 17 wins. The other loss was a 1 point loss to Newcastle at Newcastle. The 0-2 start to 2008 really wasn't that bad