Game Day: Manly v Dragons [Round 15, 2018]

[HappilyManly]

Pasekaaaa

 

[court83]

It’s in Wollongong champ.

fair call, still, Hows my prediction lookin

 

[Bill Hamilton]

The way we are playing I would tip the bye to beat us in round 17, it will have a better game plan that's for sure.

 

[Cliffymagic]

Didnt drop it but thompson did.... fmd

 

[mave]

Oh Tommy.
Go yourself ffs

 

[Ryan]

You play like bitches, the opposition treat you like bitches

 

[HK_Eagle]

Hehe, been in a workshop and just turned on the stream... what did I see. Manly "attacking" the line and a 5th tackle option of getting tackled with the ball... followed by a 4th tackle penalty to help the Steelers out of their half and onto attack. Transmission of insanity continues as normal it seems.

 

[mickqld]

Joke

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

The effort has been there tonight. Just pisspoor ball security and execution.

No. The effort was there shortly after kick off, and then it comes and goes periodically as each game drifts away from us, week after week. But it's never consistent and there's just no commitment to doing the basics right. Getting tougher and tougher to watch.

 

[damiennp90]

Finally a commentator has said what I've thought about Tommy this year.

His not running at the line enough and making life harder for his outside backs.

 

[ManWar]

Who do you tip next week? Manly or The Bye? Tough one...

 

[XV-1]

Why do we continue to go left, when Tom Wright, our best attacking weapon is getting cold on the right.

 

[HappilyManly]

Finally a commentator has said what I've thought about Tommy this year.

His not running at the line enough and making life harder for his outside backs.

Turbo still can't read the defensive numbers either - he could have scored easily but was only looking to pass

 

[pjayz]

Tom has so much talent but absolutely no footy brain. He holds the ball when he should pass and passes when he should hold the ball.

 

[smithy]

Someone straighten the line up. All sideways and we wonder why we keep going into touch

 

[Sue]

The merge defend and play for each other . We don’t.

 

[Mals]

Sadly Tom T can’t play what’s in front of him.

 

[Tomay]

Plenty of individual effort again but there’s no teamwork.

Inside the 20 we don’t work to a game plan to put moves on from certain positions. It’s just ad-lib and make it up as you go, at least last year Green would put a grubber in at the end of it. This is a big reason our halves look so bad.

We don’t tackle as a team, there’s rarely 3 in a tackle holding them up and rolling them onto their back to slow the play down. Our markers struggle to get into position far too often. I suspect this is something we are deliberately not doing for some reason (fitness?).

We don’t have any line speed to move up as a team especially in the middle. No one trusts the man at their side and we too often have centres or wingers rushing up alone not together to shut plays down.

There’s a lot more to it than this but to me this is all indicative of a coaching staff out of their depth and a head coach with too many philosophies that are overriding the basics.

 

[XV-1]

Turbo still can't read the defensive numbers either - he could have scored easily but was only looking to pass

Turbo has poor game sense as his mind is made up before he gets the ball. He hogs it when he should pass and passes when he should hold onto it.

 

[HappilyManly]

Tom has so much talent but absolutely no footy brain. He holds the ball when he should pass and passes when he should hold the ball.

Keeps running our LHS players over the sideline

Lets hope Freddy coaches it out of Turbo as Baz isn't

 

[mave]

Brian Kelly...FMD No clue

It would help if the fullback stopped running everyone out of room.

 

[HK_Eagle]

Bahaha, how many more times can the great Turbo run sideways and cramp his outside backs? Out of sheer effort and frustration, Kelly has been bundled into touch twice in the last 5 mins.