Game Day: Sharks V Manly [Round 6, 2025]

[Waz13]

Seriously get the dce days over with. We have been atrocious with the ball.

 

[dowdz]

Sipley can **** off, burbo is useless, how long do we wait for him to possess an iota of skill.

Brookes is terrible too

No one is running onto the ball, no intent on breaking or even reaching the advantage line. Not a single player knows how to take a hit up and none of our trrrible hookers know how to bring them onto the ball

Mate and I are avid Manly fans. We often talk about if the two you mention and a couple of others would make any other team. Hate saying it, but truths need to be said about some of our players.

 

[HoldenV8]

They’ll keep going there all day , the second half “ could “ get very ugly

I hope you're wrong, but I fear you're right.

 

[JakeyB789]

Our last set leading up to their last try. D$E jumps into dummy half and stifles the entire last play. Sharks march down the other end through our **** forward pack and score down our weak left side. All the weaknesses in our team shown in about 3 minutes of play

 

[HoldenV8]

Yep he is not even an upgrade on Barrett.

In 2023 we had Seibold and Flanagan.

I wished at the time that we'd kept Flanno instead of Seibold. TBH, sometimes I still wish it.

 

[Sheikheagle]

Trindall awesome. Makes our halves look ****e.

 

[The better Robbo]

Seriously get the dce days over with. We have been atrocious with the ball.

This is the exact type of game DCE does NOT deliver. He's a high flyer when we are on the front foot. He's been shown up by Trindall toady

 

[DieHardManlyFan]

F**k this is a frustrating team to support. They were showing more than I expected and then they go and concede two tries right at the end of the half. Once we let one in, another was sure to follow.

But the bigger disappointment was our failure to do anything with the ball in attacking positions. Absolutely zero creativity or spark from our halves.

I liked the way we were playing. Good teams don’t need to score off every play, our issue is we can’t get in the grind with any team and run over the top in the back end of the second half because we can’t defend and don’t have the fitness to go 80 minutes. If we’re not up 20-0 in the first 20 minutes our chances of winning drops by 20/30%

 

[Damien2812]

Can't score for sh$t without Turbo. What's the point of having halve's?

 

[Chunkytuna]

I'm no expert on the English language, but my understanding of the phrase ... "your petticoat is showing" ... is a refence to people unwittingly displaying their true self's, or biases ... or showing more of themselves than they intended ..

as for being accused of sexism ... only the woke lefties resort to that sort of attack ... and surely we don't have any of those on the thinking man's footy forum .

Surely not?!

Has to be said.

I know its his first game of the year but Tommy Talau has been all at sea out there today.

I don’t think he’s a winger.

 

[Eagle 1]

So , any hope we come back ???

At least it's 8 and not 12, about the only good point to make.

 

[Brookie1973]

Seibs isn’t a coach who develops players, and he sure doesn’t seem to fussed about structures in either attack or defence. I guess that leaves PowerPoints and dealing with chaos as his strong suits.

 

[HoldenV8]

We have a bottom 4 forward pack only 1 decent player.

Hopefully getting DCE's $1.3m off the books will allow us to get a good prop or two because you're dead right. Our pack has 1 decent player (superstar) in Haumole, one aging player who's best is 5 years behind him (Jake) and the rest other than probably Simpkin who is the young one, are journeymen at best

 

[Dion Johnson]

Talau all at sea defensively.

Looking for the intercept, the last couple of games Brooks, Faulalo and now Talau looking for the big play and creating an uneven defensive line.

 

[DieHardManlyFan]

So , any hope we come back ???

If we do it won’t be through anything we do. Sharks have us on the ropes, up to them to loose it from here. We are too unfit, poorly coached and mentally weak to play against the momentum of the game.but I pray I’m wrong

 

[HoldenV8]

Can't score for sh$t without Turbo. What's the point of having halve's?

When our chief playmaker is out injured like he normally is, our attack turns to 💩

 

[Chunkytuna]

Fancy being shown up by Trindle. DCE and Brookes should be embarrassed

It does bring into stark relief how a creative and intelligent half makes such a difference. We’ve had a million opportunities and come up with absolutely nothing.

 

[JBW]

Sharks will run in 30 in the second half. Feels like I say it each week. Ola needs to be given the ball EVERY set, instead Burbo has more useless touches....

Jazz, useless. Would much prefer Croker. Saab is a massive loss. We just look lost in attack.

 

[Rafferty]

Both sides are playing like they had a big night on the piss

 

[Eagle 1]

I usually defend Burbo because I think he gets a raw deal from fans who don't like that he's not Tom and Jake rolled into one.

But he's not having the best day out there, is he.

His hands have let him down today.