Game Day: Chooks V Manly [Finals Week 2, 2024]

[Jethro]

Chooks V Manly [Finals Week 2, 2024]


Pre-Match Thread here


MATCH DAY

Satur21day 21 September 2024.

Venue:.... Allianz Stadium, Sydney, NSW

Gates Open:.... TBA.

NRL Kick Off Time:.... Sydney Roosters v Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles: 7:50pm.


TICKETING

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Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

01. Tom Trbojevic
02. Tommy Talau
03. Tolutau Koula
04. Reuben Garrick
05. Lehi Hopoate
06. Luke Brooks
07. Daly Cherry-Evans (C)

08. Taniela Paseka
09. Lachlan Croker
10. Matthew Lodge
11. Haumole Olakau'atu
12. Karl Lawton
13. Jake Trbojevic

14. Ben Trbojevic
15. Josh Aloiai
16. Ethan Bullemor
17. Nathan Brown


Replacement:

18. Clayton Faulalo.


Reserves:
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Out:

19. Jamie Humphreys
20. Toafofoa Sipley
21. Gordon Chan Kum Tong
22. Corey Waddell.


Available But Not Selected:

• Jaxson Paulo
• Caleb Navale
• Jake Simpkin
• Ben Condon
• Aitasi James
• Brad Parker
• Aaron Woods - Development Player
• Dean Matterson - Development Player.

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From the Manly Sea Eagles website, here is the ' Rd 27 Sea Eagles Injury Report' released on Monday, 02 September 2024:

Tom Trbojevic suffered a Grade 3 AC shoulder injury against the Bulldogs (Rd 26). He will miss this Sunday's sold out final round match against Cronulla at 4 Pines Park, but will back for week one of the finals.

Scans confirmed Jason Saab suffered a high ankle sprain injury against the Bulldogs. He will miss the Sharks game and be assessed week to week regarding his recovery and fitness.

Aaron Schoupp remains in a sling after undergoing successful shoulder reconstructive surgery and is planning to commence running this week.

Jake Arthur suffered a stress fracture in his left foot and underwent successful surgery to stabilise this. Jake has progressed out of his boot and has commenced running on an alter g treadmill.

Rd 27 Sea Eagles Injury Report

Here is the latest Sea Eagles injury news from Manly's NRL Head Physiotherapist Chris Bailey leading into round 27 of the Telstra Premiership.

www.seaeagles.com.au

From the 'NRL Casualty Ward - All the Latest Injury News, Updates & Returns Details' web page, Here is the Latest NRL Injured or Unavailable Update:

* * * (Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2024) * * *

Manly winger Jason Saab remains sidelined with an ankle injury suffered in Round 26 and will need his teammates to keep winning if he is to play again this season.


Manly Sea Eagles

• Jason Saab (Ankle, Finals Week 3)
• Aaron Schoupp (Shoulder, 2025)
• Jake Arthur (Foot, 2025)

NRL Casualty Ward: Ramien, Saab racing the clock

Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon is confident star centre Jesse Ramien can make it back for a sudden-death clash with the Cowboys while Manly flyer Jason Saab is looking to overcome an ankle injury.

www.nrl.com

Also, from the NRL Casualty Ward, Manly hub page, there are slight variations to the information regarding the unavailable or injured players and their return periods:

• Jason Saab (Ankle, Finals Week 2)
• Jake Arthur (Foot, Next Season)
• Corey Waddell (Suspension, Finals)

Casualty Ward

Check the Official NRL Casualty Ward, which players are injured, and who is expected to make their way back onto the field and in the game.

www.nrl.com

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MATCH OFFICIALS:

Grant Atkins
Referee

Phil Henderson
Touch Judge

Matt Noyen
Touch Judge

Gerard Sutton
Standby Referee

Liam Kennedy
Standby Touch Judge

Chris "You're on report & you're on report & you're on report & you're on report " Butler
Bunker Review Official

Match Officials: NRL Finals Week 2 and NRLW Round 9

Match official appointments for Finals Week 2 of the 2024 NRL Telstra Premiership season and Round 9 of the 2024 NRL Telstra Women's Premiership season.

www.nrl.com

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It's Game Day !!!

Go Manly !!!

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[globaleagle]

Guess what day it is?

- what day is it?

Guess what day it is?

- what day is it?

It's.......

GAAAAAAAAAME DAAAAAAAAAAY!​

Omg omg omg....

Rip in Manly, you can do it!

(of all the games to be on at 2.50am my time...sheesh)

C'mon!!!!!!!!

 

[Dion Johnson]

Confident we can stick it to them in the first 25 minutes and get away with the win!!!

 

[The '47ers]

#✓€√¢ damn 7:50pm kickoffs 🤬
Hurry up already!

 

[Go manly]

Go Manly says
Go manly

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

Go Manly says
Go manly

Stuey Davis’s Socks say
Go Manly!

 

[The Wheel]

Now or never boys - let’s stuff the chickens tonight 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

 

[Tragic Eagle]

Go Manly. It should be a cracker of a game!

 

[Eagles4Life]

Its time. Lets do this. Go Manly.

 

[Rosko]

MIGOTY!

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

Backline blitz or old-fashioned bash-up? The styles and fights of a finals classic

By Dan Walsh​

September 20, 2024 — 7.15pm

Three weeks before colliding in the 2013 grand final, Manly and the Roosters played out the lowest scoring final of the past 42 years – and a criminally underrated epic at that.
A 4-0 Tricolours win, secured in the 10th minute via a Roger Tuivasa-Sheck try, belied exquisite attack that was only shut down by desperate defence from both sides.

At least one element of that contest endures on Saturday night. Anthony Seibold’s offence is the most expansive in the game, after all, and the Roosters’ 30.8 points per game is the highest average total over a season since Dave Brown – the Bradman of rugby league – rewrote the record books in 1935.
Whoever sorts themselves out without the ball almost certainly stays alive in 2024, as the Sea Eagles’ passing and pace goes up against the Roosters power game.

Only Penrith pass the ball more often than Manly (247 per game). And no team shifts left (16.4 times per game) and right (15.04) as often as Manly, simply because the Sea Eagles have more compelling reasons than most to do so.

Even with Jason Saab sidelined, their back five – featuring sprint specimens Tolu Koula and Reuben Garrick plus the dynamic ball-running of Tom Trbojevic – explains their eagerness to go wide early and often.
Or when they need some special sauce, like their last-tackle match-winner from inside their own 30 metres against Canterbury.
Key to setting loose Manly’s backline, though, are the big men in-field. Their revival against the Bulldogs came on the back of Taniela Paseka and Matt Lodge returning from the bench when Daly Cherry-Evans sliced through from a mesmerising scrum play.

The veteran No.7’s game management, running into a howling southerly, was superb, but it also came on the back of Paseka (eight runs for 75 metres) and Lodge (10 runs for 74 metres) dominating the final 20 minutes.

Power v Pace: How the Roosters and Sea Eagles attack​

The ball movement and attacking stats of 2024​

Passes
ROOSTERS
219
NRL Rank
15th

MANLY
247.3
NRL Rank
2nd

Offloads
ROOSTERS
11.4
NRL Rank
2nd

MANLY
6.5
NRL Rank
16th


Line breaks
ROOSTERS
6.1
NRL Rank
2nd

MANLY
5.5
NRL Rank
5th


Support Runs
ROOSTERS
56.6
NRL Rank
1st

MANLY
54.3
NRL Rank
2nd

Tries scored - left
ROOSTERS
62
NRL Rank
1st

MANLY
50
NRL Rank
2nd

Tries scored - centre
ROOSTERS
19
NRL Rank
13th

MANLY
19
NRL Rank
13th


Tries scored - right
RORTERS
51
NRL Rank
2nd

MANLY
46
NRL Rank
4th
Source: Champion Data/NRL

It makes for a particularly fascinating watch given the Roosters are at their best going straight down main street.
Their 11.4 offloads a game, led by Angus Crichton (52) and Terrell May (36), are most effective when the Roosters roll tight around the ruck, repeatedly.
The prospect of James Tedesco and Joey Manu using their foot speed and size (both still tip the scales at more than 100 kilos) from a forward’s quick play-the-ball is a defensive nightmare.

The Roosters might score only 14 per cent of their tries down the centre channel, but it’s still where they do their best work.
Their 56.6 support runs per game are the highest in the NRL for a reason, and their 219 passes (15th) point to the power game of a front-row rotation featuring Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Lindsay Collins, Spencer Leniu and May.

Early errors against Penrith and a lagging line speed left the Roosters with a 30% share of the ball and 22-0 deficit after as many minutes last week.
Anything like that defensive apprehension will invite man mountain Haumole Olakau’atu to target Luke Keary.
The NSW Origin back-rower did exactly that in Manly’s round two win, and Panthers star Liam Martin ran like a man possessed last week too, more often than not straight into the Roosters veteran.

Victor Radley’s return just three weeks after fracturing his scapula also offers an obvious spot target for the Sea Eagles - it’s much harder to hide a back-rower in defence than a halfback like Cooper Cronk in the 2018 decider.

Manly themselves are rickety on the edges too, though, with their left-side channel conceding 42 tries (12th in the NRL) this season.
Reuben Garrick and Lehi Hopoate are a new combination opposite Manu and Dominic Young, while Cherry-Evans has a habit of shooting out of the line and disrupting the right-edge when an opposition attacks from halfway.

As was the case in 2013 rort, match-ups like Tedesco v Trbojevic, Manu v Koula, Waerea-Hargreaves v Lodge and Crichton v Olakau’atu get the mouth-watering long before kick-off.

The attack from both sides suggests we’re in for feast rather than famine this time around.

 

[mickqld]

Theyll come out fast and try to blow us away like last time. Stick with them , be patient , wear them down like we did the dogs. Long kicking game and FFS tighten that right edge defense.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

OK this game will measure how far Manly has improved this year.
Quietly confident the side has improved more than most pundits have noticed. I hope I'm right
Go Manly!

 

[Eagle 1]

Theyll come out fast and try to blow us away like last time. Stick with them , be patient , wear them down like we did the dogs. Long kicking game and FFS tighten that right edge defense.

What do you make of Lodge throwing down a challenge to Hargraves to come out firing, like I'll be waiting. Maybe Sieb's might be behind this, could get a penalty or two out of it maybe a sin binning of JWH would be more preferable.

 

[frank stokes]

I like us in this game... they only got us last time because of some amazing bounces of the ball off Walker kicks...

No Walker to pull candy out of his bum this yime and their attack is going to rely heavily on lob-bombs to their tall wingers... our backline defence has to trust each other so that our wingers DO NOT rush in but stay wide on their opponent...

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

What do you make of Lodge throwing down a challenge to Hargraves to come out firing, like I'll be waiting. Maybe Sieb's might be behind this, could get a penalty or two out of it maybe a sin binning of JWH would be more preferable.

Sin bin? After the way the finals have been ref'd so far I'd say there's zero chance of a bin. Even a Sualii head high missile tackle leaving DCE unconscious would probably only result in a penalty and a quiet word to tone it down a touch.

 

[frank stokes]

Sin bin? After the way the finals have been ref'd so far I'd say there's zero chance of a bin. Even a Sualii head high missile tackle leaving DCE unconscious would probably only result in a penalty and a quiet word to tone it down a touch.

However an errant finger from DCE to JWH'S upper-shoulder may result in a send-off still..

NEVER under-estimate the cozy rrlationship between the NRL and Nick-the-Greek...

 

[Fred]

Relax everyone. Manly to piss it in. 20 plus.

 

[Rosko]

Very close to a sellout. Only a few tickets left, by the looks.

 

[Waz13]

Very close to a sellout. Only a few tickets left, by the looks.

Really, that’s awesome. Manly fans snap up the last ones quick!. And what a disgrace the crowd was last night. I was out at my son’s indoor cricket and only caught the second half. How embarrassing.