Game Day: Manly v Eels [Round 1, 2017]

[Terry Zarsoff]

Scott getting away with it everytime.

He is a cheat. Someone needs to jam a thumb in his eye and pop it out of the socket.

 

[Haliaeetus]

dunno if you guys are looking at the same game as i am

parra are wrestling the dropped balls out of us and the ref is just happy to let it go
all the 50/50 calls are going the against us

manly winning the forwards battle and not looking despondent in defence.

watching DCE communicate with the refs convinces me he's the best man for the C job.


great positive signs.

 

[The Royal Soup]

Is Barrett sacked yet?

 

[desreturnoftheking]

For me. the Storm are the biggest bottom feeders, followed closely by the Parra scum

beau Scott is a special kind of scum

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Is Barrett sacked yet?

Round 6

 

[HoldenV8]

Did that dingbat now hosting Nein's telecasts just say this was Silvertails vs Fibros?

I didn't know Western Suburbs were back in the top grade.....

 

[Budgie]

Not sure that DCE is a captain.
Parra menacing but they do seem to get away with an awful lot of stripping in the tackles.
FIngers crossed that we're not too tired and can settle in this half.

 

[Narrabeen Laker]

The manly teams of old never lost a penalty count at Brookie

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Tommy has to step up. He's a highly payed player now

Cant be lethargic and not get involved. Went better the more the half went on.

Then threw that pass to late on one of the last plays. Such an important part to our game.

Sadly he has received the annual Andrew Johns Kiss of Death Award, before a ball was kicked.

They can still win though. They just have to be more clever and remind the referees that Faecalmatta have been offside all day.

 

[Killer03]

We look sharpish in attack (only 2 real attempts and 1 try and 1 nearly try).

Whilst we didn't hold the ball, at least 2 of those we had the ball punched out.

We are in this, last year we would be 30 points down and heads between tails. There are plenty of points in us.

 

[globaleagle]

dear oh dear oh dear.

Surely we can't get much worse.

We need to get Parra to teach us: "How to strip the ball and never get pinged for it."

Hope the refs still do the penalty square up!

 

[Fibro Eagle]

Oh no is everyone on here against me 😱

 

[Budgie]

Mick Ennis thinks we'll sneak home with it. I like him!

 

[desreturnoftheking]

Let the guy have some games
We need to stand behind him
apart from the mistakes we looked better then Parra. they've dfluked both there tries plus the ref just let's them strip the ball that halfwit beau Scott does it everytime. semi head highs Kelly but it's all sweet as

 

[TimmyQ]

IF the penalties even out and IF we hold the pill were more than capable of coming over the top of these buggers. Comeon Manly make us proud!

 

[Kevinward777]

Todd implores all referees that Manly are to receive NO calls where benefit of the doubt can be called into play.

 

[anthonyb1965]

Parra have been at least a metre off side the whole first half. Then there is the ball "stripping".

 

[pjayz]

Nope, not excited yet. Actually pretty much what I expected so far.

I was waiting for that.

 

[Fibro Eagle]

Did that dingbat now hosting Nein's telecasts just say this was Silvertails vs Fibros?

I didn't know Western Suburbs were back in the top grade.....

Oh no is everyone on here against me

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

dunno if you guys are looking at the same game as i am

parra are wrestling the dropped balls out of us and the ref is just happy to let it go
all the 50/50 calls are going the against us

manly winning the forwards battle and not looking despondent in defence.

watching DCE communicate with the refs convinces me he's the best man for the C job.


great positive signs.

Our teams of the golden 10 years would have adapted better/quicker to the prevailing conditions, refereeing etc. If the eels get away with stripping after two times they probably will get away with it after four times. This team will learn and not rely on a magic fairy to make things fair.