Game Day: Manly V Titans [Round 20, 2024]

[Jerry1]

Tits are a much improved side since Hasler has taken over. We will win this by a fair margin though.

 

[HoldenV8]

Ridge played in some good attacking teams with 477 goals in only 122 games, deadly with the boot

He was our goal kicker right from his first game and was a vast improvement in accuracy over both Snoz and Mal Cochrane.

Garrick only became our first choice kicker from his 7th game. Before that DCE had the kicking. But Reubs being a winger for most of his time so far has scored more than twice as many tries as Ridge though, not surprising given Ridge was only a fullback, and never the fastest one at that.

 

[Disco]

No dark thread emotive here
Let’s go boys
Titans playing well but we are still in it

We got drawn into a bit of helter skelter in the first 20 that plays the Titans hands.

Not good, but we did settle and draw ourselves back in.

Brooks looking good. Turbo looking likely

 

[Hotspur2014]

Both teams defence horrible.
Our right side have no idea.
DCE needs to settle down and kick to the corners ,we get field position and complete our sets.

 

[davohan123]

Bit worried defensively, especially that right edge. Should be expecting to be peppered in the second half even more if Lehi can’t return and Burbo stays in the centres. There’s a speed mismatch there.

But we look deadly in there 20
Think whoever gets good ball in opposite 20 this half wins

 

[The Indian]

If we can manage to win a game with DCE on full tilt scramble mode it'll be a good sign.

Just give it to Brooks until he calms down....


It's not easy being a Manly fan is it... a real white knuckle ride.

 

[mickqld]

Brown and Bullemore come on and we get go forward. If DCE can cease the headless chook circles and just play the link like Humphreys did last week we'd be ok. Cut the hero play sh*t DCE. Manage the fuking game.

 

[frank stokes]

So I assume the "Dark GDT" got boring and is no longer a thing?

 

[bob dylan]

No way dce can back up after origin.

Too old , too flat ,

Let the humph play, even fat cat would be a step up

He should have been rested, Jake too.

They could return next week vs Roosters.

 

[The Indian]

can that swelling on the eye be drained?

Rocky: " Cut me Micky....cut me "

 

[eaglebuzz]

We had our two best middle forwards on the bench so I guess it's not surprising that we started slow.

The annoying thing for mine is that DCE's dumb arse jungle ball plays wasted two very good attacking sets. We could be leading by more if he had just kept his head. Brooks definitely has been the better of our halves so far.

 

[HoldenV8]

Bit worried defensively, especially that right edge. Should be expecting to be peppered in the second half even more if Lehi can’t return and Burbo stays in the centres. There’s a speed mismatch there.

The left edge has missed more tackles than the right......

 

[eaglebuzz]

He should have been rested, Jake too.

They could return next week vs Roosters.

Jake's fine, he only played 20ish mins on Wed.

 

[The Royal Soup]

It’s a simple game plan for Manly to win

- go forward before you go wide

- fast play the balls

- defend hard

that is it, that’s all that’s needed but not under SeiDud , it’s all to hard

 

[frank stokes]

It's not easy being a Manly fan is it... a real white knuckle ride.

There is no other oprion for me personall BUT I gotta say that days like today make me wonder how easy it is to be a drizzle or Riff fan...

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

So I assume the "Dark GDT" got boring and is no longer a thing?

Sounds like it lasted one game , last week , and we won by a country mile , must have been hard for the dark mode boys

 

[nightster]

Ridge played in some good attacking teams with 477 goals in only 122 games, deadly with the boot

I remember him tacking a shot at field goal, which missed but he followed it through, caught it and dived over for a try, saw Bob Fulton do the same

 

[Seagles68]

We've done to be in front at HT - Titans had 67% of the ball when they scored their 2nd try and we were gassed. I'm not normally one to blame the ref but geez he's been bloody ordinary for us. Bench has been good for us. Cherry looks buggered. I think Wed has taken its toll. Need to get out defence sorted in the 2nd half or we won't have a lead very long. Come on boys, gotta lift

 

[The Indian]

I haven't caught up on all the chat....but when Tom got the sticky spray overload and the ball stuck to his hand AGAIN..... oh my lord I could hear the groans....

 

[Jethro]

So I assume the "Dark GDT" got boring and is no longer a thing?

Nope, it's still going. Soup seems to have forgotten about it.