Post-Game Discussion Manly v Bulldogs [Round 3, 2022]

[simon_eagle]

Lawton and Walker changed our fortunes in that second half. Good straight running. Foz MOM.

 

[Ben]

This has the be the 1st time in years we took both starting 2nd rowers off the field as a tactical interchange. I guess Des wants to give Mole a little rest before he comes back in with 15min to go to keep him fresh.
Also that would be the only way to utilise Davey and Bully in the other side.
Will be some selection headaches when Shoe is back in the mix

 

[Supreme Leader]

Hey,at least we’re not last. 15th with a bullet! (that’s all I’ve got).


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who's getting the bullet?

 

[Ben]

Lawton and Walker changed our fortunes in that second half. Good straight running. Foz MOM.

Foz was outstanding! He carried us tonight

 

[Dan]

Don't make me screenshot the standings
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Standing mean nothing when you lose the game mate

 

[Chip and Chase]

Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-Dwellers

It's been a while between drinks mate. How is the Coalition going ? you still commanding it ?

 

[HK_Eagle]

i thought Marty was very poor. No impact and looked tired and ineffective .

Paeska I thought bent the line back well. And as others have suggested, Walker was our other most dominant middle forward

Agreed. Marty looked really tired and struggling in the first half to me. I saw him literally fall to his knees as soon as he ran into a defender on a couple of occasions in that first half, and was driven backwards in the tackle before our pre halftime try.

We just seemed determined to avoid trying to play hard and simple up the middle, but kept looking for short cuts, passing and offloading when the conditions and lack of penetration didn't warrant it.

 

[mickqld]

Well at least we won it for the brave souls who went along, the new stand and the Fulton family. Saved the utter embarrassment of losing to Mr lawn chair. At least Monday work will be tolerable.

 

[Jerry1]

Is there a MVP post

 

[HK_Eagle]

I was happy with crocker tonight. Did a mountain of defence and his pass selection was a lot better and ran at the right times. Hopefully he can build on that

Agree with this also, barring that one poorly timed 40/20 attempt on the third tackle

 

[mickqld]

Agreed. Marty looked really tired and struggling in the first half to me. I saw him literally fall to his knees as soon as he ran into a defender on a couple of occasions in that first half, and was driven backwards in the tackle before our pre halftime try.

We just seemed determined to avoid trying to play hard and simple up the middle, but kept looking for short cuts, passing and offloading when the conditions and lack of penetration didn't warrant it.

Have we trained lightly compared to other teams in order to have more at the backed of the year. We just look so far behind the rest of the league in energy.

 

[Sheikheagle]

Can anyone tell me the crowd number?

I think 13,000 + which is outstanding given the conditions

 

[HK_Eagle]

Well at least we won it for the brave souls who went along, the new stand and the Fulton family. Saved the utter embarrassment of losing to Mr lawn chair. At least Monday work will be tolerable.

Was Zoolander sitting on a garden chair in the new stand?

 

[Hotspur2014]

Said I'd be happy with a one-point win so I'll be happy. But man, if we didn't put so much effort into trying to lose a game we wouldn't have to put even more effort into trying to win. Tommy, Walker, Foz were just heroic. Jake and Croker also good and I thought Lawton straightened things up as well when he was on the field.

Cherry can take the glory for the field goal that floated over, but if he had any feeling for the game of rugby league we would have never needed him to do it. Still can't quite believe that, in conditions resembling a Biblical flood, we didn't take the gift of two points when we were offered them. Points were hard to come by and we'd made plenty of handling errors, so why wouldn't we take the easy two points, get the ball back and start all over again?

A win is win , and I will take it every time.
I know the conditions were poor , but wow we had enough possession in the second half to win 2 games !!
So now we are only 2 competition points behind 2nd place !!!
Player wise , Harper must be dropped after that pathetic performance, Saab has lost all confidence and Croker again tried hard but is not the answer for our go forward. Would let Marty go asap as his headspace is no longer with us.

 

[Dan]

Does it feel like we are trying to play to a script and the opposition has a different script? Then we have no ability to improvise?

 

[mickqld]

Was Zoolander sitting on a garden chair in the new stand?

I'm hoping we still shove the opposition into the old ****ty changerooms but isn't there new rooms under the COE ?

 

[mickqld]

Does it feel like we are trying to play to a script and the opposition has a different script? Then we have no ability to improvise?

We have a script ?? I thought we were playing U8s throw it to the tall fast kid and hope.

 

[Ben]

Does it feel like we are trying to play to a script and the opposition has a different script? Then we have no ability to improvise?

Seems all out set plays are totally ineffective. We only look good when we do play heads up footy when we have them on the back foot.
I feel more confident that we will score from our own half then attacking inside their 20

 

[Chunkytuna]

Didn’t watch but listened to abc and Luke Lewis and Gibbsy thought DCE went ok not great but did a lot of defence and cleanup

He was crap. The guy has started this season like he started last season - hopelessly. Hopefully at the start of next season he’s playing for Redcliffe.

 

[HK_Eagle]

We have a script ?? I thought we were playing U8s throw it to the tall fast kid and hope.

That run of turbos in the second half where he ran completely side to side looked very much like that. lol

I remember playing U12s and we brought in the state 100m sprinting champion and plopped him in the centres. We'd pass it wide along the backline to him (in the days of inside/outside centre), and if he couldn't run around the outside, he literally did a DCE 360, run sideways backwards and across the field and run around the opposition the other side. Hilarious to think about it now.