Game Day: Manly v Raiders [Round 25, 2016]

[The Royal Soup]

What a set of 6

We made 9 meters

 

[winnyason]

Is Trent Barrett just Peter Sharp, wearing a Mr Handsome suit?

Alexis Sayle used to start a show like that. Handsome bloke, unzips his suit and voila...Alexei!

There someone said it Peter sharp that was a great era.....

 

[eaglebuzz]

Offside not a thing you can penalise any more?

 

[The Royal Soup]

Superb defense again

 

[globaleagle]

Errr

by any standard...

that was kinda weak!

c'mon men!

 

[mickqld]

Uh oh opening of flood gates although the Raiders would be silly to not take the foot off

 

[globaleagle]

we need a minister...a minister of defence!

 

[Jerry1]

Softer than a mr whippy in kakadoo.

 

[The Royal Soup]

There someone said it Peter sharp that was a great era.....

I'd prefer him over Barrett and that's saying something

 

[eaglebuzz]

Starling - arm grabbing. He can go.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Starling...tackling like a sparrow.

 

[swoop]

1.2 MIL halfback and he can't find the sideline and it's not the first ****ing time.

 

[Simonmyers11]

I hope starling and williame never put on a manly jersey again. Absolute rubbish

 

[globaleagle]

time for a comeback!

 

[Budgie]

Fortress what?

 

[eaglebuzz]

The only thing Barrett has done wrong this game was to not bring Parcell on sooner. We've sent out a patched up reserve grade side against the 3rd best team in the comp. We were always going to lose.

 

[HK_Eagle]

Yeah our kick defense is a liability, no argument here. But that particular play was pretty lucky for them.

With all that time to set the defence and only 2 tackles there is a very simple strategy to execute. Hit the settler in numbers and make sure you put him on his arse (buying time). While that is happening, defensive players identifying the kicker options and preparing to rush him/them, putting pressure on the kick. None of that happened and it's just poor at this level with that sort of time to prepare. Parker having to deal with the kick itself was just the end of a very poorly thought out sequence. In fact, there was zero thought and strategy involved. Players just wanted to take a breather and didn't have their heads in it.

 

[winnyason]

At what stage does Scott Penn think Barrett cannot coach. Ivan Cleary at least

 

[Budgie]

Oh God, 15 minutes still to go. I might take the opportunity to learn to knit.

 

[bob dylan]

Thankfully its a "Results Driven Business"