Game Day: Storm v Manly [Finals 1, 2021]

[eaglebuzz]

Got to say, if harper didn't play could be a lot closer.

dropped ball that lead to a try
Missed tackle for broomich try
Had ball stolen from munster and scored next set
Dropped the ball again in space and they score off the next set

what a shocker!

Yep he has been the source of just about all their points.

 

[The Eagle Has Landed]

Hold The EFFING ball ffs.

 

[The better Robbo]

Harper and Olakau-atu directly or indirectly responsible for every trt against us. Harper has been off for about 5 pr 6 weeks! Maybe Suli could get a call up

 

[Snoz1976]

Suli in for Harper next week - Harper is shocking in defence when the heat is put to him and his handling tonight has cost manly any chance. At least Suli troubles the defence.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

We are embarrassing. Piss poor performance. Just goes to show we can't match it with the big boys.

Good experience for the kids, but we are miles behind the Storm , and not just a couple of miles , hundreds of them.

 

[Dan]

One of the worst performances we have produced in a long long time.

Very embarrassing so far.

Other points

You were saying we were not going to miss Croker far out we are.

Our in experience players is showing .

God help the roosters next weekend turbo will explode he has been so poor tonight

No leadership out there either.

Wow that hurts badly .

We are so slow out of dummy half

 

[QueefRichards]

did Melbourne injure Turbo

 

[court83]

Harper is absolutely killing us..
If des wants any hope in hell of winning this game, Harper doesn't touch the field again..
Walker to centre..
The kid has cost us 12 points with his basic mistakes and it's absolutely destroying any hope we have to get back into this

 

[HK_Eagle]

Absolutely shooting ourselves in the foot, the head, the torso, the gut, and the nuts.

Completions are king and we play like this....lost for words.

Next week

It's just mind-boggling. How could we be sooo stupid? Surely, we knew the importance of ball control and discipline... even Des mentioned it pre-game. How do we go out and do the exact opposite? I mean, this is exactly what we did in that last Melbourne game, and yet, what have we learned??? NOTHING.

 

[Pittwater Legend]

Look Des got this team from 0-4 to top 4. We have already fought hard to come back this season. I don’t want to have to do it again in the finals but it looks like we have to now

 

[Rackets]

Left their worst game for tonight

 

[EagleFromMay1967]

Sturm so clinical. So steady. There goes Turbos dally m.

 

[SeaEagle21]

You can see the experience coming to the fore here.

We have conceeded really soft tries off the back off errors.

That try on HT has all but ended this game.

 

[Under the Sticks]

The inexperience is being exposed and they have done a number on Turbo

 

[wombatgc]

Another Harper error (looks scared and intimidated) and a whiffed tackle from DCE, then who do you know, Olakau'atu ?

I think Dessie has to call it. Lionel (you know I love him), but he’s got the yips. Unless Dessie puts Walker out there, they are just gunna hammer Lionel.

 

[Simonmyers11]

showing no confidence or belief out there tonight.

walker has been the only one who has looked dangerous

think we are missing crocker too. lawton no where near as crisp with passing and combination with DCE looking off

 

[The Royal Soup]

50 points coming up for storm

 

[PONTIAN SEA EAGLE]

We just get flustered every time we play these pricks mistakes galore.

 

[eaglebuzz]

Harper is absolutely killing us..
If des wants any hope in hell of winning this game, Harper doesn't touch the field again..
Walker to centre..
The kid has cost us 12 points with his basic mistakes and it's absolutely destroying any hope we have to get back into this

He may as well get a chance to right the ship. At this point the next 40 mins are a free hit at trying to win the week off, otherwise we'll just have to do it the hard way.

 

[God]

I'll accept Parker can tackle but no one should ever user Harper and defensive centre in the same sentence ever again. Terrible.