Other Games - Round 7, 2018

[Class of 96]

Not as many penalties tonight, you can bet Manly still get pinged for inside the 10 and hand on the ball plenty of times on Sunday.

Judging by last week, we now get pinged for inside the 13.

 

[HoldenV8]

More on our breaking story from earlier.

The spaghetti was cooked to perfection and the sauce was topped nicely with Parmesan. A good meal was had and my compliments to the chef......me 😉

 

[Class of 96]

More on our breaking story from earlier.

The spaghetti was cooked to perfection and the sauce was topped nicely with Parmesan. A good meal was had and my compliments to the chef......me 😉

That's sounds far more thrilling than the dross served up on the idiot box.

 

[Lyonstomenzies]

More on our breaking story from earlier.

The spaghetti was cooked to perfection and the sauce was topped nicely with Parmesan. A good meal was had and my compliments to the chef......me 😉

I thought we all only ate sausage rolls???

 

[globaleagle]

Ah lets see... I picked the bulldogs and looking at the stats, 500 more run metres, 200 more post contact metres, 15 more offloads, I'm sure I've finally started the week with a tipping win.

6-0 roosters

w...t...f???????

 

[HoldenV8]

I thought we all only ate sausage rolls???

I actually had one from the local bakery for lunch

 

[HoldenV8]

Ah lets see... I picked the bulldogs and looking at the stats, 500 more run metres, 200 more post contact metres, 15 more offloads, I'm sure I've finally started the week with a tipping win.

6-0 roosters

w...t...f???????

Mate, the Dogs had absolutely ZERO in attack. They had nothing. Their best chance came about 30 minutes in after Latrell Mitchell got sin-binned for tackling Foran without the ball 8 metres out (which mysteriously stopped him scoring despite two other Chooks defenders in front of him). Late in that 10 minutes Brett Morris jinked across field from the left about 10 or so metres out and found Foran running into a gaping hole that would have seen him untouched under the posts. But being a winger he put the pass behind Foran who promptly knocked on and that was that.

And the Chooks only score? More individual brilliance from Mitchell who turned nothing 20 metres out into a try in the corner (which he easily converted). If he doesn't play in the NSW #3 jumper this year they are kidding themselves.

 

[globaleagle]

Mate, the Dogs had absolutely ZERO in attack. They had nothing. Their best chance came in about 30 minutes in after Latrell Mitchell got sin-binned for tackling Foran without the ball 8 metres out (which mysteriously stopped him scoring despite two other Chooks defenders in front of him). Late in that 10 minutes Brett Morris jinked across field from the left about 10 or so metres out and found Foran running into a gaping hole that would have seen him untouched under the posts. But being a winger he put the pass behind Foran who promptly knocked on and that was that.

And the Chooks only score? More individual brilliance from Mitchell who turned nothing 20 metres out into a try in the corner (which he easily converted). If he doesn't play in the NSW #3 jumper this year they are kidding themselves.

So the dogs last week beat the cowboys whilst the roosters got done by a sam burgess-less souths but this week everyone has taken opposite pills and derp de derp.

Tipping is like bobbing for apples in a washing machine - hard, gross, and kinda pointless in the end.

Positives: - at least I save time only watching the highlights! (Thanks for the recap) 🙂

 

[HoldenV8]

Don't get me wrong, both teams worked themselves to near exhaustion out there. But it was just endless hit ups and kicks. Latrell Mitchell made the only line break of the entire game. THE ENTIRE GAME!!!! And that was in the 4th minute.

Both teams showed some solid defence, but neither showed much of anything with the ball in hand.

Phil Gould said it was a great game to watch because it was grinding and absorbing. But seriously, it had nothing on the Manly vs Chooks games of a few years back where the score was like 4-0 or something like that. At least those games had both teams throwing everything they could and more into the attack AND defence, not just defence.

 

[rifraff]

I don't think woods ever touches the ball. Could be pinged every time he is tackled.

You don't have to touch the ball with your foot.

The wording for the rule is that the players "just have to make a genuine attempt at touching the ball with the foot"

Took a bit longer than I expected to see a player doing what Woods did so consistently. Just shows how half arsed the NRL decision makers are and if they ever actually think things through.

 

[HappilyManly]

Tonight -
Drags
Broncos

 

[mave]

3 sets and no penalties ?
Refs not going to stamp their authority with early nothing penalties this week ?

 

[mave]

Haha.
Seems the Dragons are allowed to pin the opposition in their own 20m with 5 great defensive rushing plays.....same ref that penalised us last week seems to have packed it away for that same scenario tonight.

 

[The Who]

Don't get me wrong, both teams worked themselves to near exhaustion out there. But it was just endless hit ups and kicks. Latrell Mitchell made the only line break of the entire game. THE ENTIRE GAME!!!! And that was in the 4th minute.

Both teams showed some solid defence, but neither showed much of anything with the ball in hand.

Phil Gould said it was a great game to watch because it was grinding and absorbing. But seriously, it had nothing on the Manly vs Chooks games of a few years back where the score was like 4-0 or something like that. At least those games had both teams throwing everything they could and more into the attack AND defence, not just defence.

That match - Manly V Easts - was one of the finest in the past 20 years. The two teams were a lot stronger than those last night and the standard of play infinitely higher.

 

[Pittwater Legend]

23 mins gone. Warriors have received only 1 penalty at home whilst the Dragons have been gifted 5.

 

[Pittwater Legend]

6-1 penalty count against the Warriors now at home. 29 mins gone

 

[Pittwater Legend]

32 mins gone, 8-1 penalty count and 68% posession in favour of the away team. What the eff

Warriors holding on to a 4-0 lead

 

[mave]

That is the biggest difference between the Warriors and us.
Defence wins games, and comps.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Bugger, saw that Johnson was out and changed my pick from WAR to DRA.

Should have learned my lesson from the last time he was out!!

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

That match - Manly V Easts - was one of the finest in the past 20 years. The two teams were a lot stronger than those last night and the standard of play infinitely higher.

Yeah, I was at that game with my Roosters-supporting brother. If we'd taken the penalty goals on offer, we would have won. Hiku, playing fullback, was immense and got the man of the match award if I remember rightly. Every time I see him playing for another team I think of that game.