Game Day: Manly v Knights [Round 5, 2023]

[The Royal Soup]

terrible stupid inept pathetic half of football!

they need a biggest fuking rocket known to man

 

[globaleagle]

well

dunno if this one will make my highlight reel.

 

[BirdMan4ever]

We are not stinging in deference.cthat 2 weeks now with no big hits. We always win behind a big hitting defence . It's disappeared

 

[KaZa]

Johns over Shuster... lol come on.. he's barely first grade standard.

Harper and Tippy have been awful.

 

[JakeyB789]

I hope people start to realise just how terrible Cooper Johns is. The fact I’ve seen people say we should move Schuster back to the forwards for him is crazy. Can’t kick, can’t pass, can’t tackle

 

[Jerry1]

Shame we didn’t keep Foz to cover for schu when he’s injured…

 

[JBW]

Surely Weekes has to come on....Johns, rubbish

And its amazing gow much we miss Koula. Harper isnt even good enough for Blacktown. No speed on the right side.

Unless something drastic happens here Newcastle will win this by 16.

 

[Waz13]

Maybe that big effort v South’s took more of a toll than we thought.

Yep they were down last night too. We look flat and it came too easy early which has allowed complacency to sink in. Need to get into the sheds and reset. Geez I hope Tom can sort himself out. He’s playing like he’s worried about stubbing his toe every tine the ball gets near him. Clearly a mental issue for him now as well,

 

[niccipops]

Terrible.
We have no sting in defence and no creativity in attack so far. Not showing passion or enthusiasm. Hopefully the coach rips in and gets them to fix up the left side D.
Hopefully we can turn it around.

 

[Simonmyers11]

Going to have someone get an ugly win.

Johns is very average. Losing Koula and Shuster shows we lack depth in those spots.

Massive turning point Paeska losing the ball after points and then Quac being sin binned.

 

[winnyason]

Pea heart performance and not surprised. Paseka not sighted at all, aloiai the same and not putting any pressure on Hastings missed tackles everywhere.
And why the **** is johns in first grade **** is useless and Harper again what is this **** doing on there.

 

[davohan123]

Knights are there for the taking

We just don't look interested at all.

You can hear in the effects mike turbo unhappy with players screaming at them.

We could lose by 14 + if we don't have an attitude adjustment at half time.

We are playing like we think just turning up today will get the win.

We miss kolua badly today.

We should still have enough to win but need a shift in attitude.

 

[Chunkytuna]

Surely Weekes has to come on....Johns, rubbish

And its amazing gow much we miss Koula. Harper isnt even good enough for Blacktown. No speed on the right side.

Unless something drastic happens here Newcastle will win this by 16.

Harper and Tui are really a pathetic combinations there. No threat at all. The one try they scored should have been a doddle and we only just got it. So slow and impotent.

 

[Kalvin]

Our right side defence is just lucky that our left side defence is also horrible today!

 

[mickqld]

Get Weekes out there. Johns is a reserve graders. As soon as I saw Harper name I knew we were in trouble. Honestly we have no excuses for this garbage. It's fuking Newcastle for fuksake. Panthers will annihilate us next week. Even if we manage to fall over the line here we don't look anything like a top 8 side. We look like last year's last 7 rounds.

 

[Simonmyers11]

I hope people start to realise just how terrible Cooper Johns is. The fact I’ve seen people say we should move Schuster back to the forwards for him is crazy. Can’t kick, can’t pass, can’t tackle

Pretty average agree

 

[davohan123]

Bully very ineffective also today.

Even turbo looks disinterested at times today.

 

[Disco]

Real lack of intensity from us which is disappointing.

Some casual defence and ball handling.

That said I think we have demonstrated that when we lift they cant go with us.....so we need to lift for the entire second half

 

[Briza]

Here's the real Manly we all know and frustratingly love, time for Harper and Tui to be permanently dropped to Blacktown...

 

[Jerry1]

We’ll win this but this has been pants so far. Can only get better.