Sick of the Manly seasons derailed

[maxta]

Crap happens and Character Rises above Crap

Why Character Matters and its Necessity for Successful Coaching!​

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As coaches, character will propel your teams to success: work ethic, self discipline, trust, honesty, courage, placing team goals ahead of individual honors, mental and physical toughness and having a good attitude are a few qualities that are needed to be successful.​

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I thought the coaching last week seemed great and your only as good as your last game....

 

[BOZO]

Fair comments Bozo and agree with much of it, but we don't have the luxury of the Panthers production line to call in and Melbourne are a well oiled machine to overcome adversity with a stringent game plan and 80 minute performances and can throw in a gun like Faalago for Pap at fullback....but I do agree we need to improve to these type of levels and this TEST will show how eager we are to contend in 2024.....and really my only point behind the thread was "can we keep a healthy side on the field for once, to see how we compare without, injuries , suspensions ect" and my excitement that SOO was over and we have Paseka back any time it's basically full strength...I was actually happy Oka didn't play so he was available for Manly, but somehow we still find a way to have him out....

The key word to your posts is Luxury
The greatest luxury in football team is the character it builds to start a strong winning momentum of belief , resilience and over producing and over achieving
The coach that can Inspire this in his players has the Winning edge against any team

 

[BOZO]

I thought the coaching last week seemed great and your only as good as your last game....

Most Important
You are also only as good as you are consistently good
Consistency is the key to Greatness

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

The greatest luxury in football team is the character it builds to start a strong winning momentum of belief , resilience and over producing and over achieving
The coach that can Inspire this in his players has the Winning edge against any team

Well clearly Slater couldn't inspire that character in Qld.
So, who would you replace him with?
(I'm assuming you don't think Slater has an excuse, because you've made clear your view about excuses!)

 

[Disco]

Agreed. But no one would have dreamt you could lose a player in such weird circumstances.

Ha, this is true

 

[LeonardCohen]

Can’t agree with this at all. It was intense and became a game where one try meant the whole difference. Would you prefer another 50 point game at origin level. Yuck. This was the first origin in the last 10yrs that felt origin like’

Each to their own. One of the reasons Origin is considered the pinnacle of RL is the speed at which the game is played. James Hooper mentioned on 360 the other night that the average play-the-ball speed was over 4 seconds, which is significantly slower than the average speed of a standard NRL round match.

I don't want a blow out score but some champagne football every once in a while would be nice. There were no highlights, just a couple of penalty goals, an opportunistic break off a loose offload for a try and Moses taking on the line in the dying stages. Yawn...

I should disclaim, I hate Origin so there's a chance I am biased. I love Manly and only care about Manly. The Origin is a disruption so significant, it beggars belief that the NRL are prepared to compromise the integrity of a 30 week competition for three games of TV ratings.

 

[The Who]

Origin is also the pinnacle of toughness and endurance, which is exactly how this match transpired. I thought it was one of the best matches of RL I've seen. I couldn't help thinking: thank goodness I didn't follow my dream of becoming a professional football player, and concentrated on another sport, because I would have wimped out after the first tackle.

 

[eagleron]

Big O is in strife because he was only a spectator and spectators getting involved is a very serious issue. It was a brain snap. He shouldn't have been on the side line it should have only been bench players and trainers there.

NSW management are surely to blame there, regardless of whether Hamoule was in games 1 and 2 there's no way he should have been given access to the bench

 

[eagleron]

can we appeal the Grade 3 grading and not the charge itself .Surely common sense needs to come into it somewhere, unless Im missing something

We'd risk it becoming 3 weeks if we did that

 

[eagleron]

I don’t need mommy to protect me…..however sounds like you do. Perhaps you could go away & not come back!

Mommy??? Come on guys,tell me I'm not on the Philadelphia Eagles site by accident, lol

 

[Eagle 1]

NSW management are surely to blame there, regardless of whether Hamoule was in games 1 and 2 there's no way he should have been given access to the bench

Think he was with the fans, then jumped over the fence. That's what I read about Ola's involvement tn the push and shove melee.

 

[master blaster]

Maybe Manly and Souths should have got together and complained about why only 2 players suspended and others involved in the melee weren't and why didnt a player that kickeed another in the head, gets put on report and doesnt even make it on the charge sheet , 2 teams that are fighting for their semi final lives the only teams with players suspended, a conspiracy theory I say lol

 

[eagleron]

Can’t agree with this at all. It was intense and became a game where one try meant the whole difference. Would you prefer another 50 point game at origin level. Yuck. This was the first origin in the last 10yrs that felt origin like’

The only thing I didn't like about the game was how the lack of tries affected my multies, apart from that the defence from both sides was very early origin era like, I just loved the brutality and hatred on display from the whistle, you could feel the impact in every hit, glad they don't play like that in club games otherwise the injury list across the competition would be phone book like

 

[bringbackbeaver]

The only thing I didn't like about the game was how the lack of tries affected my multies, apart from that the defence from both sides was very early origin era like, I just loved the brutality and hatred on display from the whistle, you could feel the impact in every hit, glad they don't play like that in club games otherwise the injury list across the competition would be phone book like

haha it's all about the Multis . I thought it was the best origin game for some time. Give me a low scoring / tight game any day over some of the AFL scores we are seeing week in week out

 

[LeonardCohen]

Origin is also the pinnacle of toughness and endurance, which is exactly how this match transpired. I thought it was one of the best matches of RL I've seen. I couldn't help thinking: thank goodness I didn't follow my dream of becoming a professional football player, and concentrated on another sport, because I would have wimped out after the first tackle.

I did enjoy the rough and tumble of the contest, I must admit.

 

[Eagle 1]

haha it's all about the Multis . I thought it was the best origin game for some time. Give me a low scoring / tight game any day over some of the AFL scores we are seeing week in week out

And 9 must have been fuming, hardly any breaks in play, meaning less ad revenue.

 

[Dion Johnson]

Crap happens and Character Rises above Crap

Why Character Matters and its Necessity for Successful Coaching!​

​

As coaches, character will propel your teams to success: work ethic, self discipline, trust, honesty, courage, placing team goals ahead of individual honors, mental and physical toughness and having a good attitude are a few qualities that are needed to be successful.​

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Michael Maguire affectionately known as MADGE has the above attributes..

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Origin is also the pinnacle of toughness and endurance, which is exactly how this match transpired. I thought it was one of the best matches of RL I've seen.

I could have used a bit less sh*thousery in the play-the-ball and a little more emphasis on skill than just bashing the opposition, but yes, that was exactly the kind of game you think of when you think of the Origin "brand", and exactly the kind of game the NRL and aligned media wanted and had been talking up for weeks. And now they're fining and suspending players for giving them the very thing they wanted.

 

[maxta]

I could have used a bit less sh*thousery in the play-the-ball and a little more emphasis on skill than just bashing the opposition, but yes, that was exactly the kind of game you think of when you think of the Origin "brand", and exactly the kind of game the NRL and aligned media wanted and had been talking up for weeks. And now they're fining and suspending players for giving them the very thing they wanted.

So true
Regardless on differing opinions on here, which I can see in their own way are valid....the NRL has got Game 3 to a "Michael J Fox Back to the future" with an old fashion slug fest and let me add....let so much go that the testosterone was 10 x that of any game in a loooong time till it boiled over...and now 2 clubs miss Star players and if the NRL are gunna do that, FFS suspend the players kicking others in the head and brawling or simply fine the lot of them....
The only poster that touched a different angle, was my good mate SER8 who made good sense of the factor this running in, was in a way an extra type of violence and the way he described it, is better than mine, so go back and have a look as it was also a good take imo.

 

[master blaster]

Now Corey Parker comes out and says Haumole should have got 6 weeks, another flog that thinks everyone thinks what he says is important but still no word on why no Queenslanders were suspended especially Reece 'kicked him in the head' Walsh who didnt even make the charge sheet even though he was put on report