My positive was listening to Barrett's press conference like him or not he was p*ssed and emphasised we don't have a 80 minute team at the moment, the players seem to crumble as soon as the tides turn he showed passion and belief in the players he has and stuck up for Walker with regards to SOO. Remember we don't know how much power he had in choosing all the team so at the end of the day he is working with what he has....
Agreed mate. Some of his words below:
Trent Barrett finally loses his cool
For 13 rounds Trent Barrett has stayed cool, calm and composed as Manly's season collapsed around him.
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Then came Sunday's meek surrender to Penrith - Manly blowing a seemingly unassailable 20-point lead - and Baz could no longer hold his tongue.
"I am (angry) because we were the better side for an hour," the Manly coach said.
"It was 24-4 and that should be enough to put a team away.
"That was a massive game in terms of our season and now it's going to be real hard.
"That's what ****s me the most. We put ourselves in a position to win and threw it away as easily as we've done.
"We're missing three and a half million dollars' worth of players - I know that – but we were still in a position to win."
Manly used to be almost impossible to beat at Brookvale Oval.
But after losing seven of their last eight games on the northern beaches, The Fortress suddenly looks like it's made out of cardboard.
Just don't tell Barrett the club is losing their hard mental edge.
He said: "It's not disappearing – it's the personnel that's disappearing.
"You take out your captain, you take out Matai, you take out your halfback, you take out Lawrence.
"And the last few years you take out Foran, you take out Watmough, you take out Kite, you take out King – that's a lot of experience."
"We're good for an hour then have a 15-20 minutes period where we capitulate and can’t handle any adversity.
"We've got a lot of young players who are still learning to be first graders."