Pre-Game Manly v Dragons [Round 18, 2021]

[WiseyEagle]

It's now or never for Suli. Couple of falcons coming up

 

[The Royal Soup]

****ing Suli

seriously

this has loss all
Over it once again

 

[lulubelle]

I'm getting tired of Turbo being a protected species. I was hoping he would go to Des and demand to play. Obviously not so. DCE did twice the amount of work that Turbo did in the last State of Origin. Tackled his heart out.
Turbo's hamstring is either healed or not. Presumably it is.
So Turbo stop playing the prima donna.
Give something back to Manly for the amazing bucks you are earning.

 

[HK_Eagle]

I'm getting tired of Turbo being a protected species. I was hoping he would go to Des and demand to play. Obviously not so. DCE did twice the amount of work that Turbo did in the last State of Origin. Tackled his heart out.
Turbo's hamstring is either healed or not. Presumably it is.
So Turbo stop playing the prima donna.
Give something back to Manly for the amazing bucks you are earning.

Agree. Man up Turbo. If you're too fragile, give the game away. Sick of seeing him prioritise SOO over manly.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

****ing Suli

seriously

this has loss all
Over it once again

Are you saying we'll lose because of a winger? No offence to wingers, but I think that is stretching their importance just a little.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Turbo's hamstring is either healed or not.

From various articles about Turbo, it is healed, but having been torn in the past it is now vulnerable to re-injury, so he has to be managed carefully. Such as resting for a period after a game. If it was sudden death I'm sure they'd chuck him in and equally sure he'd want to play.

 

[Fonzarelli]

Turbo being rested says Des , Hopefully Turbo tells Des he is good to go , Like when Des wanted to replace Turbo on the Canterbury game and Turbo over ruled Des and said I'm staying on .C'mon Turbo tell Des your playing
If not simple change Harper to fullback Walker to centre , Harper will attempt to catch the ball

Harper to fb and walker to center.. i like this

 

[Fonzarelli]

I'm getting tired of Turbo being a protected species. I was hoping he would go to Des and demand to play. Obviously not so. DCE did twice the amount of work that Turbo did in the last State of Origin. Tackled his heart out.
Turbo's hamstring is either healed or not. Presumably it is.
So Turbo stop playing the prima donna.
Give something back to Manly for the amazing bucks you are earning.

Let him rest you won't be saying that if he gets injured and we miss the finals

 

[Fonzarelli]

I see Ben Hunt has struck career top form this week. He will need to be sent a lot of traffic to tire him out & keep him quiet if Manly are to win.

He usually has a good game against us, im pretty worried

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Harper to fb and walker to center.. i like this

The main feature of Harper's centre play has been rushing up and shutting down the opposition, including all potent threats from Fifita to Kikau.
At fullback he might be called on to make only a couple of tackles.
If you think he'd be great at fullback because he can marshal our defenders and organise our attack, as I recall we got flogged in that trial which was his only stint at fullback.

 

[Mataiforever]

Think everyone is panickingthe raiders game.

the weakness here is Suli and he must rise.

Having DCE and Schuster back are huge ins... don’t underestimate the power of a good organiser like DCE on our team. I am calling him to have a blinder and we win by 12-16

 

[globaleagle]

Round 18 Late Mail: Rabbitohs, Bulldogs finalise teams

All the late mail heading into round 18 of the NRL Telstra Premiership.

www.nrl.com

who t.f wrote that article....?

Manly coach Des Hasler will rest Tom Trbojevic will be rested from his side's round 18 clash with the Dragons, although captain Daly Cherry-Evans is set to back up from Origin duty.

Cherry-Evans had a wow of a game against the Cowboys in round 14 as he bounced back from his Origin disappointed while Hasler elected to rest Trbojevic rather than forcing him to back up two days after Origin I and said the plan would be the same this week.

 

[Jethro]

who t.f wrote that article....?

Manly coach Des Hasler will rest Tom Trbojevic will be rested from his side's round 18 clash with the Dragons, although captain Daly Cherry-Evans is set to back up from Origin duty.

Cherry-Evans had a wow of a game against the Cowboys in round 14 as he bounced back from his Origin disappointed while Hasler elected to rest Trbojevic rather than forcing him to back up two days after Origin I and said the plan would be the same this week.

LOL, I don't think much proof reading goes on nowadays before an article is published. They seem to think that everything in the article is fine and dandy if there are no red squiggly lines under any words of the article (i.e. spelling mistakes) before they publish the article.

 

[globaleagle]

LOL, I don't think much proof reading goes on nowadays before an article is published. They seem to think that everything in the article is fine and dandy if there are no red squiggly lines under any words of the article (i.e. spelling mistakes) before they publish the article.

It reads like it was cut and pasted from another article but they realised they had to change a few words to avoid 'plagiarizing' claims. they threw some extra words in then didn't check.

Anyway, Go Manly!

Tom 166 metres and 12 tackles. Should be right to play but noooooo. lol..wah

 

[40 years an eagle]

I'm getting tired of Turbo being a protected species. I was hoping he would go to Des and demand to play. Obviously not so. DCE did twice the amount of work that Turbo did in the last State of Origin. Tackled his heart out.
Turbo's hamstring is either healed or not. Presumably it is.
So Turbo stop playing the prima donna.
Give something back to Manly for the amazing bucks you are earning.

It is 100% not Tom's call to make, regardless of how much he wants to play.

 

[Fibro Eagle]

The main feature of Harper's centre play has been rushing up and shutting down the opposition, including all potent threats from Fifita to Kikau.
At fullback he might be called on to make only a couple of tackles.
If you think he'd be great at fullback because he can marshal our defenders and organise our attack, as I recall we got flogged in that trial which was his only stint at fullback.

Harper has been a standout at centre , I didn't think he went too bad at fullback in that trial against the tigers where Manly didn't play many of the top squad
I think the question always comes up about fullback replacement for turbo all the players that Des had used all struggled , looking from the outside is always easy trust in Des cause he sees how they train and goes with it just doesn't always workout on GameDay , just hope Garrick has worked a bit with b Stewart this week on fullback play cause last week wasn't to flash

 

[BOZO]

The main feature of Harper's centre play has been rushing up and shutting down the opposition, including all potent threats from Fifita to Kikau.
At fullback he might be called on to make only a couple of tackles.
If you think he'd be great at fullback because he can marshal our defenders and organise our attack, as I recall we got flogged in that trial which was his only stint at fullback.

From what I remember in that trial that we got flogged Harper was the player that stood out at fullback .

 

[Wombat64]

With SUlli in the team .... they need the lube mobile

 

[Cioran]

I don't know if Saab's ever played full back but he's very good under a bomb and has the sort of (Brett like) blinding speed that can create an overlap from nothing. I know next to nothing about his positional play in defence but I imagine he'd have the speed to get across in cover.

Could be worth developing Jason as cover for Turbo the way Robbo used to fill in for Brett.

 

[ManEagle]

With SUlli in the team .... they need the lube mobile

Mate I think you need to park the lube mobile wherever the dogs are playing, you'll get alot more business there.