Massive turning point today

[maxta]

Look we were smoked
Storm came to town and killed us
But 1 thing
After falling behind after a 3 try blitz 1st half, Manly kicked hard and finished the half well on top though down 18 - 10
Early 2nd half, Ben T gets tackled half way with Jerome Hughes, hanging on like a leach, Ben plays it "with his foot" and Manly get Penalised ???
Storm score on the back of it and Manly don't touch the ball the next 10 minutes and score blows out to 40 - 10
Again, the better team by a landslide was Storm, but that pi##ed me off big time. as against Storm you can't afford to give an inch and that was a mile imo

 

[Hertera]

Look we were smoked

That's enough lets stop looking for excuses

 

[Dee Why Eagle]

Deserves a new thread?

 

[Uk eagle]

Look we were smoked
Storm came to town and killed us
But 1 thing
After falling behind after a 3 try blitz 1st half, Manly kicked hard and finished the half well on top though down 18 - 10
Early 2nd half, Ben T gets tackled half way with Jerome Hughes, hanging on like a leach, Ben plays it "with his foot" and Manly get Penalised ???
Storm score on the back of it and Manly don't touch the ball the next 10 minutes and score blows out to 40 - 10
Again, the better team by a landslide was Storm, but that pi##ed me off big time. as against Storm you can't afford to give an inch and that was a mile imo

It was a bad call but I think we were already gone by then. For me the real killer was Garrick kicking out on the full. You cannot keep inviting the storm into your half and hope to get away with it

 

[Lyonstomenzies]

Also DCE getting caught trying to go down the short side then loosing 30m. Brooks is under pressure for the kick and we let them off the hook.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

That was one of several.

For example: if Garrick had not fluffed a kickoff after Melbourne’s first try. That immediately led to two more Melbourne tries.

Or, Koula not passing to an unmarked Faulolo, which would have been our first try.

Then there was a signature headless chook moment from you know who, which led to a momentum shift in the second half. That might have been before the Burbo moment.

Edit: I see LtM has just raised that last one.

 

[Rafferty]

The speed of the storms game, was the turning point, we were gassed 10 mins in, Garricks kick was a killer, Burbos penalty killed any come back (think he was hard done by on that one) totally exposed by a superior side, with superior line speed, fitness…….ah why bother

 

[Waz13]

They basically try to play touch football. Every contact they are diving for the ground trying to hit their chest. I dont like it but it’s effective. Those times where they scored their points we couldn’t stop them.

 

[danny-boy]

Fancy conceding 48 points and blaming it on a refs call.

 

[Uber Eagle 72]

It’s a long season teams will peak at different times…the Storm were far and away the better team today but let’s see how we fare through the long season ahead…no doubt we will see better days….

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

The turning point

We played a red hot team and weren’t good enough.

FLL STOP

 

[bob dylan]

Fancy conceding 48 points and blaming it on a refs call.

Ricky Stuart did a couple of weeks ago vs Manly

 

[CRPSI eagle]

We need new young forwards with some grunt, surely we must have one or two.
It seems Waddell, Sips and Alaio are not good enough and won’t be that player we need.
Their pack looked like monsters and treated our forwards like kids.

 

[Phobia]

We need new young forwards with some grunt, surely we must have one or two.
It seems Waddell, Sips and Alaio are not good enough and won’t be that player we need.
Their pack looked like monsters and treated our forwards like kids.

Aloiai didn't play mate lol

I do agree with your sentiment though. I think this a long term side effect of the Trbojevic contracts which have hamstrung us (pun intended). We simply can't afford someone to partner Paseka effectively, and now we've lost him.

 

[maxta]

Fancy conceding 48 points and blaming it on a refs call.

Who done that ?
If you can't read, don't respond
Very clear Storm dominated as the thread stated, simply baffled by a ridiculous decision.....is your real name "Craig Bellamy" ?

 

[maxta]

That's enough lets stop looking for excuses

No excuses at all, smashed as stated in the thread, but was a weird call .... a better side reacts better to these type of calls, but personally found it confusing and Storm cashed in

 

[Tragic Eagle]

It was over in the first 20 minutes our pack were missing tackles and we had no line speed.

 

[Kalvin]

It was over in the first 20 minutes our pack were missing tackles and we had no line speed.

Yes our middles (with the exception of Bully really) are all to big/un mobile/ lack agility for the modern game...

Need a few different body sizes imo

 

[Sheikheagle]

It was over in the first 20 minutes our pack were missing tackles and we had no line speed.

Just got back from the game. The biggest observation is their play the ball speed and line speed is so much quicker than ours it’s ridiculous.

 

[maxta]

Deserves a new thread?

Maybe
Something along the lines
"Manly have no resilience" ?
Fact is, I found the call strange at the time and really changed the games momentum, but Manly folded like a deck of cards and any side who wants to be a serious show will overcome this type of call...regardless of Manly lacking backbone, the call definitely had an impact