Game Day: Manly v Eels [Round 3, 2023]

[davohan123]

I am still so far from convinced on Schu. Downhill skier so far in my view. Loves the glam attacking, but not the same desire in defence.

I know it's crazy saying but DCE has done most of the kicking

While nice touches from josh I think Cooper is a better 6 for DCE.

 

[Cameron]

Twice.

He does too much work and gets tired. That's when we need gordo injected in to the game.

Schu/dce/Tom look crisp in attack

Kelma needs to get the mistakes out of his game and that attempt of tackle that lead to the second parra try was piss weak.

Great 25 mins. Time to reset.

 

[Simonmyers11]

We fell away badly in that half

First score crucial this coming half

Those tries we let in were very soft.

I fear Parramatta running over the top of us in the last 20 minutes next half.

We can't give them a sniff

We just cannot give them ball in our own half or allow them field position. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Before that we had them constantly running the ball off their try line.

Crocker needs to improve his passing, allow DCE some time to get some better kicks away. Need to control the field position again.

 

[Waz13]

Eels have worked out early we have one kicking option and hodgsons harassing him. Need a second kick option, even Croker out of DH.

Still a pretty good half before clocking off late. Come out fired up and put this to bed early.

 

[davohan123]

Crocker is having a stinker... we really need to get some decent kicks away at end of sets... been very poor in our own half!

Croker is.. I know it's only trial form but Gordon was so much threatening that croker.

He has been not his best tonight.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

No complaints about the ref so far. We just completely fell away at the end of the half. Not sure if we were just knackered, but nobody looked remotely interested in either getting back into position in the defensive line or making a tackle in those last 10 minutes or so. Was happy when the half came to an end because we needed it badly.

 

[ricardo]

Oh that's right, Josh can't tackle

 

[HK_Eagle]

The most insipid cave in from the boys. Way too easy. Eels are beating themselves and started to address this as the score card shows

 

[Under the Sticks]

We looked gassed from 20 mins onwards.

It is about 26c out there a little unfair

 

[davohan123]

As I keep saying seeing how we fell away in that last 20 minutes parra if given a sniff will run away with this in last 20 minutes we looked gased in that last 20.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Really disappointing to let them back in and lift their confidence, if it went to HT 14-0 it was shut the gate

Thought we had spent 25mins setting up their right edge beautifully for a runner cutting back in hard but we never threw the punch

I’m enjoying the hitting in defence, reminds me of the late 2000s side

 

[Fibro Eagle]

Couple of soft tries against manly after penalties
just need to tidy that up
Those errors hurt manly before that manly was dominant just cut the errors and should go on and win just need to start the 2nd Half Like the first half

 

[Eagles4Life]

He does too much work and gets tired. That's when we need gordo injected in to the game.

Schu/dce/Tom look crisp in attack

Kelma needs to get the mistakes out of his game and that attempt of tackle that lead to the second parra try was piss weak.

Great 25 mins. Time to reset.

Exactly @Cameron Tonight he needed to come off after 25. Could have been a great opportunity for Weekes to come on when we were at 14 nil. Bad coaching not to use him at that point. Croker was gassed.

 

[HK_Eagle]

It’s always about the discipline. I hope Seibs has been able to instill a small amount in his time here. Could be an ongoing long-term project though

 

[The Royal Soup]

Eels offside on out last tackle every time pressuring DCE, address that and we will win the game

Croker has been appalling and slow passing on the last to DCE also

 

[Seagles68]

I'm thinking now that that bye was not good for match fitness. If it's close in the 2nd half, we're going to be in trouble late.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

I’m enjoying the hitting in defence, reminds me of the late 2000s side

I was enjoying that, too. Right up until the point we just stopped tackling entirely…

 

[davohan123]

DCE needs help in last tackle kicking

Its pass it to DCE and that is it.

Josh shoey has done very little to help in this regard.

 

[StuBoot]

Had them on the ropes up 14-0 and Croker comes up with 2 errors and puts DCE under pressure with a **** pass on the last

To be fair, one of those errors was the touchies!

 

[hozza]

Well we are up by 4, impressive first 25. Disappointing last 15 but we are in it, first 20 of the second half will be crucial.

If we had a career 9 we’d be up by 16. Croker tries hard but is not even close to what we need to WIN a premiership.