Finals footy is supposed to be the best of the best. Manly are down on troops, that's life, but with so much to play for last weekend against the bulldogs they rolled over. Some real slack, lazy uncommitted defence. Based on that alone i almost agree with him
We can blame the refs, the injuries, the suspensions, but last week manly had the chance to greatly improve there chances of making it into week 2 of the finals and manly didn't take them. No excuses, just didn't do it. True contenders don't miss opportunities.After losing that game they then had to rely on Souths who have had a miserable season to get rolled or its season over
I'm hopeful and glad we made it, i live in hope that they can progress against the odds but lets face it a team that has massive leads in 4 or 5 games and gets rolled in the second half is not worthy of appearing on the big stage. Losing against the dogs last weeks sends a clear message. Â There attitude was down by the number of soft tries they conceded
I'm still cheering hoping, supporting manly. still my team but like Gus or not,manly are pretenders this year and if we didn't have a top 8 for revenues reasons only we wouldn't figure
Most years the number 7 or 8 placed team is just as bad, unless its like Canberra who have got here on late season form
Wasn't there a debate a few years back about everyone wanting to swap an 8th placed team with a form team that had finished 9th for the same reason. Commentators were coming up with wild card entries to get a late season form team into the 8 at the expense of the team who finished 8th but was busted out of form etc. I dot believe that rubbish but its relevent to the topic, manly are not the only team to have been targeted like this