Game Day: Sharks v Manly [Round 20, 2021]

[Simonmyers11]

Start well second half, no dropped balls or 6 to go. Get points on the board early and don't give them a sniff.

More kick pressure as well.

 

[The Royal Soup]

Ref has called a clear backwards pass forward for us

2 knock backs he’s called forward

and let a clear as day forward pass from The Sharks go

can’t tell me there hasn’t been a directive from the NRL to refs to keep the games close

 

[XV-1]

Parker just has nowhere near enough upside in his defence to make up for whatever else he’s lacking. He gets great ball so often and is just too slow and boring to do anything with it.

And his hands are like concrete, so it's almost impossible for him to get the ball to Garrick quickly - that is why he gets creamed by the D so often. No sidestep, no speed, no soft hands.

 

[pjayz]

Biff walks among us

Has for a while. I was wondering if anyone else picked it.

 

[Ryan]

We had all momentum until that stuffed up forward pass call that was clearly back.

F U NRL

 

[mave]

Just get back to playing footy, and the scoreboard will follow.

Stop trying to score off every play, would be a good start.

 

[mickqld]

We had a glut of possession and should've put on 6 tries. Poor discipline, not respecting possession and the opposition and we've let another weakened average team back in the contest. We sit where we deserve 6th/7th.

 

[Snake]

I wish we’d defend like we did against the Eels earlier in the year.

 

[Fibro Eagle]

Need more of the 1-2 punch up the middle
then they can open them up

 

[Fonzarelli]

Mate, he's had a shocker for a month. Bombed so many tries, missed so many tackles. He's been letting teams back in games. He IS the weak link in that backline. When we are at.our best, he needs to be depth, not starting.

Don't get me wrong, Des will stick with him. Doesn't mean he should.

We can't keep carrying his clumsiness.

I'll say this, those mistakes will severely cost us against teams like storm rabbit's panthers who can get a roll on and are hard to stop like us. Id rather walker play there but i think its too late in the season to change them now. Plus walker is starting to shine in that new role. We will roll them this half im fairly confident. Only we kept them in the game

 

[HK_Eagle]

The really disappointing thing about that first half is that it was exactly what we didn't need, building towards a top 4 run and testing ourselves against the better teams (including Storm next week). We know we have strike power all over the place, and we know we can turn on the points. What we needed was to show composure, discipline, and a willingness to play tough (physically and mentally)... so, what did we do, came out and played Harlem globetrotters trash. It just beggars belief, We really couldn't have played any worst for what is needed at this time of year.

 

[Cliffymagic]

Parker copped a huge hit early in the game. I think it rattled him badly. Needed a rest then.

 

[Simonmyers11]

We had all momentum until that stuffed up forward pass call that was clearly back.

F U NRL

That was a shocker, 6 to go on half way, we should of been on the attack.

We will get them this half

 

[Fibro Eagle]

40 mins to get back on track
GO MANLY

 

[wombatgc]

No wonder Rubens hair looks so good. Parker won’t pass him the ball.

 

[Fonzarelli]

Penalty straight away fmd

 

[Simonmyers11]

This ref is unbelievable

 

[Dan]

I know he's a big unit but paseka has stayed down in the ruck about 3 or 4 times tonight

 

[Pittwater Legend]

Bull**** penalty. Paseka didn’t even move his foot there

 

[Scorpio]

Sutton keeping Sharks in this