Game Day: Manly v Broncos [Round 10, 2017]

[The Royal Soup]

No goal kicker

What a joke it's the NRL

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

I'm impressed. We have managed to bring both Manly sides to the one game. The brilliant and the woeful.

Sad but true.

 

[Eagles4Life]

Such is life. That first half was excellent. Not much to be said about the second half performance though.
Moving on. Titans away. Eagles by 10.

 

[Simonmyers11]

they went to sleep that second half. Just lacked energy. they stopped running and tackling hard. Other 2 massive turning points were Tom injury then we gave them 2 tries.

We had plenty of chances at the start of second half, but with Walker carrying his shoulder we missed his hard running and Siro just didn't have any impact on that edge were we should of exploited them more.

Plenty of energy in first half, so very flat in the second

 

[weev]

Run out of puff? Thought they had it done?

Since when can a player now be tackled whilst in the air?

When the ball had bounced. A bad mistake for Tom.

 

[Dan]

My wife is livid she was duped out of getting the leg over!

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Told you I was worried about the cheap turnovers…
Just a really flat performance in the second half and a couple of lucky tries to the Broncs killed us off. Felt bad for Jorge, who was really strong all night, then his customary dropped ball costs us the lead.
Also disappointed with Cherry leaving everything up to Green when we had a chance towards the end. There was an attacking set there where he didn't touch the ball a single time.

 

[HK_Eagle]

they went to sleep that second half. Just lacked energy. they stopped running and tackling hard. Other 2 massive turning points were Tom injury then we gave them 2 tries.

We had plenty of chances at the start of second half, but with Walker carrying his shoulder we missed his hard running and Siro just didn't have any impact on that edge were we should of exploited them more.

Plenty of energy in first half, so very flat in the second

Siro was very disappointing tonight in both attack and defence. Our back row seems to be our performance barometer and examplifies the good and bad of this year.

BTW, did Frank play tonight? I didn't notice him now that I think back on the game. perhaps he was out injured and I missed his omission?

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

Such is life. That first half was excellent. Not much to be said about the second half performance though.
Moving on. Titans away. Eagles by 10.

Huh!?, what game did you watch, the first 10 minutes was excellent, after that it was how we would lose.

 

[simon64]

Here's a better perspective. Don't let the ball bounce. Reminds me of that patch a couple of seasons ago where we seemed to let more bombs bounce than attempted to catch.

I don't believe Tom let that bounce HK.
The ball was floating and he knew he wouldn't get to it on the full.
He hasn't shown a reticence to catch a high bomb.
But you can't attack the ball if you know you won't get there.

 

[simon64]

Siro was very disappointing tonight in both attack and defence. Our back row seems to be our performance barometer and examplifies the good and bad of this year.

BTW, did Frank play tonight? I didn't notice him now that I think back on the game. perhaps he was out injured and I missed his omission?

I agree. Very little impact from Frank and Siro tonight.

 

[Pepi]

We won't be challengers with Winterstein and Sironen. Sironen just doesn't have that killer instinct. Wish we had Gillett

 

[dowdz]

That was hard to take in. My wife went to bed i was swearing at the boys to much. Win would of put us in 4th. Thought we were going to go on with it when Tom made those breaks.

 

[Danly Manly]

That will take me a week to get over.

Now i am depressed.

 

[HK_Eagle]

I don't believe Tom let that bounce HK.
The ball was floating and he knew he wouldn't get to it on the full.
He hasn't shown a reticence to catch a high bomb.
But you can't attack the ball if you know you won't get there.

The problem started well before the ball in the air. The Donkeys were knocked backwards in the last 2 tackles of that set and were forced to throw the ball back a further 10m behind play for the kicker. They actually kicked inside their half. Tom suffered from poor reading of the play and got caught out hanging way too far back (on his goal line). That said, a great fullback would have come flying through and attacked that kick on the full. It was certainly doable. Tom was way too laconic in my opinion and it cost us big time.

 

[davohan123]

That was hard to take in. My wife went to bed i was swearing at the boys to much. Win would of put us in 4th. Thought we were going to go on with it when Tom made those breaks.

We really should of won that
Said it earlier if we score 1st say get out to 18-20 point lead even with turbo injury we still win it I think.
We gave the broncos a sniff and they took it.

 

[HappilyManly]

We won't be challengers with Winterstein and Sironen. Sironen just doesn't have that killer instinct. Wish we had Gillett

Look at the above Player stats - Siro had the second highest tackles after Api

 

[dowdz]

Told.m

We really should of won that
Said it earlier if we score 1st say get out to 18-20 point lead even with turbo injury we still win it I think.
We gave the broncos a sniff and they took it.

Told my boys when we come out at half time that 1st try scorer in this half will be massive. Always thought we needed first points.

 

[Pepi]

Look at the above Player stats - Siro had the second highest tackles after Api

Agree to disagree. Williamson was once our highest tackle maker and was rightly dropped once we became true contenders.

 

[JenEagle]

Yeah just not quite good enough. A win against the titans next week is crucial now