Game Day: Manly v Panthers [Round 18, 2017]

[Budgie]

I did like the shots of the teams in the dressing rooms just then. Manly was all talk talk talk. Fired up, Panthers were just sitting staring into space.
Go Manly!!!!!

 

[HK_Eagle]

It appears to me that every time a team cranks up the defensive pressure successfully on a team trapped down near their own line and drives them back throughout the set, that inevitably a penalty comes to the team pegged down. I'm not just talking about tonight or Manly, I notice it in so many games. Perhaps it's just a psychological sub-conscious thing where the refs feel a team cannot be that defensively dominant and just look for anything (even seeing things that are not really there)?

 

[Harvies elbow]

When you get the 'experts' on Fox, 2 of them riff legends, agreeing that the count is one sided and expect it to be squared up shows how far down the game has gone.
Go Manly..

 

[brad]

I think Gasnier just explained it well how that was not a try.

And thats the most sense he's ever made .

 

[Michael Clare]

WTF ru saying that's not a try

The knock-on rule as I understand it means you cannot get any help from another player to keep possession. The two Penrith player's both grabbed at the ball to catch it and then the scorer put the ball down as if he had caught it on his own merits without another pair of hands to "steady the ship."

 

[Michael Clare]

When you get the 'experts' on Fox, 2 of them riff legends, agreeing that the count is one sided and expect it to be squared up shows how far down the game has gone.
Go Manly..

 

[Michael Clare]

Yep - this is a first from Fox who rarely bag the refs in any game.

 

[Wombat64]

Is this ref the bum bandit?

 

[brad]

Bozo just walked out to the carpark , oh no we know what that means..

 

[FlyingHigh]

Just checked the NRL website. penalty count is literally 9-2 against us.

 

[Eagleheart]

The game is a farce.

Fox commentators literally laughing about the penalty count and saying that Manly will get some penalties in the second half. So IMHO this has just officially confirmed what we all know, that NRL games are being manipulated by officials.

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

Points to DCE to be able to ply his trade despite the obvious distractions. Glad he is here tonight, without him it would be harder.

 

[MANLY4LIFE]

Oh im so surprised we got a penalty i didnt see that coming Did i lol

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Lane thinks this is his chance to cement a first grade spot. Only explanation for his form!

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

Well done boys, they can't penalise class.

 

[Woodsie]

OK ... I officially eat my hat ... Lane is not only having a go .. he is doing good.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Great pass Shaun Lane!!!

 

[HappilyManly]

Lane is having a great game - hat trick Laney is what I'm yelling 😛

 

[brad]

Ohhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeer

 

[Simonmyers11]

I use to be envious of the cows and storm attacking set plays over the last few years and how poor we were. We have changed that around this year. All the players know what lines to run