Game Day: Panthers V Manly [Round 8, 2025]

[manly al]

Will be interesting for the middle rotation .
Waddell should go all right , Maybe Brown will go to 13 and Jass to prop for a while .
No quite as much impact when Bully has been coming into a game but it is what it is
Bully should have already been given more minutes previously and on balance , good recovery from last week if he is really ready to go
Would think Navale strictly as a 13 option .
Gordy could be quite useful if the game opens up a bit with some lively ruck runs and if the pack has been able to pretty much hold their own .
Really need Turbo and D C E to be making a real difference to get to a winning position

 

[Brookie1973]

I am revising my Manly by 26 to Manly by 30.

You are kookoo Klaatu

 

[Woodsie]

Why am I somehow weirdly confident?

If you keep your head, while everybody around you are losing theirs ... you obviously don't understand what is happenng ..

Alfred E. Neuman

 

[Brookie1973]

If you keep your head, while everybody around you are losing theirs ... you obviously don't understand what is happenng ..

Alfred E. Neuman

Wise words from the great one.

 

[mave]

And a fair ref.

Belinda Sharpe is an excellent ref.

 

[Brookie1973]

Belinda Sharpe is an excellent ref.

Only if she gives us a six again every time Yeo does a trademark 3rd man in flop.

 

[Sea Eagle 4 Life]

Belinda Sharpe is an excellent ref.

We will all find out tonight if that is true.

 

[ALinda]

Game Day!!!!

woohoo!

Now we've had a week to read all the negative comments (repeated over and over and over and over) ..........

Hoping for a wiiiiiin!

Go Manly go!

cowabunga!

You're right about that GE, it's been so depressing here this week.

At least for a change we don't have a ref who hates us, so we might be reffed fair and square. Thinking positively...

Go Manly!

 

[manlyfan76]

Trivia alert - I made myself a 'What Me Worry' tee-shirt using the old Artex fabric pens back in the early 70's when I had a little cottage industry of custom one off tee-shirts when I moved from Balgowlah to Palm Beach (Qld)

How's palm beach changing!
Every street has a knockdown - rebuild underway.

 

[Chunkytuna]

Why am I somehow weirdly confident?

You’re drunk??🥴

 

[Chunkytuna]

If I don't watch it we'll probably win.

Off you go then. Go do something else.

 

[Chunkytuna]

Really struggling to be positive at all about this game. Don’t think our forwards will have any hope against their pack - I’m not one of those that think Navale is the messiah. We don’t have halves that can win us a game. They’re just not match winners. The only ‘positive’ is that turbo is back. But looking at his strapping, I’m not filled with confidence - Bruce Reid comes to mind. Anyway, would be delighted to be proven totally wrong. 🤞🏻 Go Manly.

 

[DanielTurbo888]

I'm not really sure what to expect here especially with Jake and Saab out. Hopefully we can go close to matching it with them in the forwards and we don't get hammered with rain, penalties and six agains!

Manly 24 Penrith 18

 

[Waz13]

Only if she gives us a six again every time Yeo does a trademark 3rd man in flop.

Hasn’t the “flop” gone out of the game as an infringement area. See them all the time and never get pulled up.

 

[Eagle 1]

Trivia alert - I made myself a 'What Me Worry' tee-shirt using the old Artex fabric pens back in the early 70's when I had a little cottage industry of custom one off tee-shirts when I moved from Balgowlah to Palm Beach (Qld)

Is it near Alf's Bait shop.

 

[Waz13]

really need the win today, but I actually see the Sharks game after the bye as a more important game. We’ll be fitter then and back at home and quite likely coming off 4 losses and a bye. And then an away trip to Townsville. Lose that one and it will be curtains for 25.

 

[Seagles68]

Really struggling to be positive at all about this game. Don’t think our forwards will have any hope against their pack - I’m not one of those that think Navale is the messiah. We don’t have halves that can win us a game. They’re just not match winners. The only ‘positive’ is that turbo is back. But looking at his strapping, I’m not filled with confidence - Bruce Reid comes to mind. Anyway, would be delighted to be proven totally wrong. 🤞🏻 Go Manly.

Yeah, I don't think Navale is the "messiah" either but I think he deserves a go. Hopefully, he'll add a bit of go forward.

 

[maxta]

I'm not sure what to expect here .....
But the ONLY thing I want is 100% effort, regardless of result
Yes I want the W....but the frustrsating thing in recent games is lack of aggression, attitude and pride in the Seaeagles jersey....apart from Hoppa and maybe Bull and Haumole 2nd half last week....were just so flat

 

[Brookie1973]

Hasn’t the “flop” gone out of the game as an infringement area. See them all the time and never get pulled up.

It appears so. It’s not just the flop, it’s the hands on top of the last tackler to hold them down for a couple of seconds. If it’s not part of the actual tackle, it should be penalised as blatant and obvious time wasting to get the defensive line organised. All teams do it to an extent, but Yeo is the master of the art.

 

[Brookie1973]

You’re drunk??🥴

But I’m also drunk when I’m weirdly pessimistic.