Game Day: Manly V Raiders [Round 9, 2024]

[Eagle 1]

We are looking very likely everytime we attack there line. Also, Tommy needs a bit of spray on his hands.

 

[mickqld]

As I suspected another average performance. Left several points out there, dumb passes, stupid plays. Faders get early try here and it's game on. This is far from over.

 

[LeonardCohen]

Manly all the ball and refs calls

we should be up more

I wish for once we would play direct down the middle with fast play the balls

but instead we are trying to score with every play and look frantic, tom dropping the ball like the dragons game

Croker has been very poor once again, slow and sloppy passes which i’m totally over

get lawton on

Yeah Croker has been pretty ineffective around the ruck. We need to keep things simple and play direct. The Raiders are not troubled at all by our shifts to the edges because they’re off the back of slow play the balls.

 

[Kalvin]

We just do some really silly things.... they go down to 12 so then dce throws a miracle ball to Saab in the wet and we lose the ball tackle 1.... then crocker kicks early on tackle 3?!

We should have been putting them under the pump by holding the ball and tiring them out... the rewards would come later!

 

[niccipops]

Manly all the ball and refs calls

we should be up more

I wish for once we would play direct down the middle with fast play the balls

but instead we are trying to score with every play and look frantic, tom dropping the ball like the dragons game

Croker has been very poor once again, slow and sloppy passes which i’m totally over

get lawton on

Ref's been evening things up though.

 

[Waz13]

Should put 50 in this mob. Dry track could have been anything. I honestly think Sticky is done in Canberra. They need a change that team.

 

[joeboy]

I know we are winning but geez we are not playing well,

Garrick missing goals and not passing
Croker loopy **** passes losing all impetus and kicking on the 4th without telling anyone
Tom dropping the ball more often than he catches it
We just need to play smart footy and we will comfortably win, we can’t keep giving the raiders openings as the momentum will swing and the even-ing up of the penalties will start


We left a lot of points out there, but seriously, just some application and smarts is needed

 

[The Royal Soup]

Should put 50 in this mob. Dry track could have been anything. I honestly think Sticky is done in Canberra. They need a change that team.

we won’t because we play to frantic and try and score on every play

 

[The Royal Soup]

I know we are winning but geez we are not playing well,

Garrick missing goals and not passing
Croker loopy **** passes losing all impetus and kicking on the 4th without telling anyone
Tom dropping the ball more often than he catches it
We just need to play smart footy and we will comfortably win, we can’t keep giving the raiders openings as the momentum will swing and the even-ing up of the penalties will start


We left a lot of points out there, but seriously, just some application and smarts is needed

i’m done with croker at hooker, he’s been like that all year, slow, sloppy terrible passes that players have to stop and go backwards for

 

[LeonardCohen]

We are looking very likely everytime we attack their line. Also, Tommy needs a bit of spray on his hands.

there have been instances recently where Tom has muffed the play-the-ball when the ball has stuck to his hands. Sounds like he either puts on too little or too much

 

[niccipops]

Big Pappy milked that one badly, involved in the next two plays.

Ricky's a bit like Bellamy with inventing or exaggerating ways to cheat.

 

[Top End Eagle]

Rocks and diamonds.

Thankfully more diamonds than rocks.

Yeah and they've been looking for a chance to see what RPM they can get out of this machine, can't blame them for trying to blow the cobwebs out and see what they really can do.

James Graham talking sense at half time, Siebs will have them knouclle down now you hope

 

[Disco]

Interesting to pop in, I think we are playing great and are all over them.

Lolz...anyhoo

 

[LeonardCohen]

i’m done with croker at hooker, he’s been like that all year, slow, sloppy terrible passes that players have to stop and go backwards for

Imagine how good this team would be if we had a genuine 9 causing havoc around the ruck.

 

[double hoops]

They need to stop the trying to score off every play mentality. Chill out. More talent on our side. Use it wisely.

Yep that's the composure I harp on about.
Possession is key tonight.
Ware em down and the points will come.
Go to helter skelter and u risk intercepts and giving away easy points. Ie How they got their 6 points foo can.

 

[wombatgc]

Is Voss annoying anyone else?

I wouldn’t know. My bloody Kayo is freezing up, dropping out. I’ll get the wireless out for the second half I think.

 

[eaglebuzz]

Interesting to pop in, I think we are playing great and are all over them.

Lolz...anyhoo

We are all over them, but this game could have been already over if we'd respected the ball.

 

[Waz13]

i’m done with croker at hooker, he’s been like that all year, slow, sloppy terrible passes that players have to stop and go backwards for

Yeah Soup Crokers service is too slow. I think we should be more structured with our use of the back up 9. Put him on at the back end of the first wash game and balance need for Croker to come back on depending on how the team are going.

 

[eagleron]

Hopefully, we go on and get the W, but you can just as easily see us lose it after momentum and luck swings back the other way.

We've surrendered good leads plenty of times in our history, they need to refocus otherwise in these conditions the Raiders could stage a comeback, unlikely I know but not impossible

 

[voicefromthehill]

Interesting half time comments from the king of CTE

James "Im a knuckle head" Graham just said the Raiders need to hold the ball to "build this victory"...I sniff a stitch up. Already we have been told about how the Flogs always win the week after failing to nil