Farewell for Brett & Steve

[Mark from Brisbane]

I think Stewart's form was based firstly on carrying injury...sure his energy was down, but struggling to be a shadow of yourself physically, would no doubt be mentally draining also.
There were obviously some ill feelings behind the scenes that we are best not to judge, without knowing the full scripts, that effected his effort....still had a massive effect on everything good and was more influential than ANY Manly player I have seen...that's since about 1981....
As for Matai - what a warrior....and as someone who likes good old fashioned shots over these WWF wannabes, this bloke will go down in Manly folk law as the biggest hitter of all time...
A send off 100%
Time to stay positive.
To look at these players with a negative feeling is pretty poor form...without them would not have had the recent golden decade and 1000,s of memories...personally gunna hold on to the good ones...these 2 blokes deserve it.

I won't look at them in a negative way, I remember all the great times and if it wasn't for this thread would never have mentioned the effort in the last 3-4 games.

But, I'll stick to the view that I think the horse has bolted for a big farewell.

I have a feeling Boxy will organise a big gathering to celebrate the 40-0 GF, and you might see them walk in with the Golden Eagles, I hope so as they were a big part of it.