Post-Game Discussion Sharks v Manly [Round 21, 2023]

[Jerry1]

Glad to see we went on with it in the second half..
Shambles…

 

[Eagle 1]

What the F$$k just nearly happened even though we won I am speechless just what happened in the second half.

Sharks had a huge amount of ball in the 2nd half that's what happened

 

[BenR34]

1st half everyone was an 8/10 at least. Really strong performance. Still dislike him strongly but Lodge as the first forward off the bench was such a big difference compared to Woods every other week.

2nd half...honestly not much to say as far as our players go. Can't blame them with a depleted bench and the reffing...

Now the officiating...Every fan likes to blame the ref time to time but that was possibly the most incredibly one sided refereeing performance I've seen in that 2nd half. The amount of shocking calls was unbelievable.

 

[JakeyB789]

The end of that game was shambolic but to be fair we were down 3 players, and copping penalties and six agains against us left right and centre. Paseka was taken out of the game early and for the next few weeks at least, and all that was called was a knock on by us. Jake had to come off for an HIA for high contact and we got nothing for it. Disgraceful one sided refereeing to try and bring those overrated frauds back into the game, glad we could hang on

 

[Eagle 1]

Pathetic 2nd half from manly but even more pathetic performance from the referee. By far the worst ref in the NRL

Get a life, everyone was tipping us to lose. Hardly pathetic..

 

[Jay Eagle]

Funny how you can pick the flogs that come on here pretending to be Manly supporters
They dissapear straight after a win

Flogs 🤣🤣🤣

 

[voicefromthehill]

I’m just worried about our resident flogs.

They must have nearly ripped their members off with their love of being a flog in that second half

 

[Rackets]

First half they were hungry and played great footy. Second half went back to their usual dumb plays. Watching this team just gives me heart palpitations and seeing Seibold in the coaching box showing zero emotion shows the little to no passion he has. We are a long long way from winning another premiership. Happy to get this and any win at the moment.

 

[globaleagle]

The perfect game for silvertails

A win to keep the optimists happy,

yet a narrow win / opposition comeback to give the pessimists something to complain about

 

[Adz]

Paseka went down early,Aloiai off early second with a shoulder and then Jake HIA.
We hung on,it wasn't pretty,but jeez,what do you expect.
We needed the win and we live to fight another week.
It is no surprise there was zero petrol in the tank

 

[Heckenberg]

Oh to smith and Cronk suck eggs you were both death riding us on fox sports
boy that was hard to watch

Gould was absolutely gagging for a sharks win the whole game. It was horrid

 

[Ryan]

Diabolical performance for us. Check out our missed tackle count in that second half alone. There's no excuse for that.

You can't have Woods, Schuster,Tuilagi and Lodge on the field at once. There is nowhere NEAR enough pace especially laterally in defense to allow that.

At one point sharks were running in a try every set. Not good enough.

I'm not happy with that performance, sorry. Reminded me of The Storm / Cowboys games last year where they literally destroyed us like play things at times in the game

 

[bringbackbeaver]

Ref was way to whistle happy both ways . 20 penalties , 5 ruck infringements and offside penalties . Very poor from the ref

In our team

Lodge was very good
Woods played well
Parker worst game in a while
Chez great
Koula best game in first grade ?! 220M and two tries
Saab was good
Tui no where near enough effort for 80m .

 

[Jerry1]

Get a life, everyone was tipping us to lose. Hardly pathetic..

I tipped us to win and that second half was pants.

 

[davohan123]

Well a win is a win and with only one player on the bench Jake getting HIA ( how we didn't get a penalty from I will never know) it was a gusty win.

Gough did everything in his power to get the sharks home.

Now let my blood pressure return to normal levels.

 

[AlxFromNthNarra]

Given the injuries incurred, happy we escaped with a win. Regardless of the 2nd half, losing Paseka after 5mins is not a small thing. he's been our best prop. We found a way. stoked. We're still alive.

 

[Alfreddo]

Was always going to be a tough final 15 minutes losing Paseka, Jake and Aloiai. Nice to see our completions up over 80% for a change. Frantic game with 20 penalties all up. If Jake didn't leave the field we would have won 13+

 

[globaleagle]

Paseka went down early,Aloiai off early second with a shoulder and then Jake HIA.
We hung on,it wasn't pretty,but jeez,what do you expect.
We needed the win and we live to fight another week.

I hardly think Lodge and Matterson have spent weeks and weeks getting used to the Manly system either.

(but you can almost hear the gears of the pessimists scanning for stats to hate this win)

 

[Eagle 1]

3 fwds injured, massive possession gor thr Sharks in the 2nd half this is what happens in the modern game now.

 

[LeonardCohen]

What the F$$k just nearly happened even though we won I am speechless just what happened in the second half.

It’s simple what happened. Losing a front rower in the opening two minutes completely destroys your middle rotation; that’s bad enough. Compound that with losing Aloiai (who you need to play longer minutes) and you’re in trouble. Compound that with losing Jake and you’re in massive trouble. Have a 33 year old journeyman plodder in the middle who was gassed early in the 2nd half as one of the guys trying to cover for the injuries, you’re ****ed!

When your middle is gassed, you get exposed on the edges due to (a) quick play the balls and (b) inability to cover lead runners from the inside. That’s why Daly’s edge kept getting stretched.