Game Day: Storm V Manly [Round 20, 2025]

[Wombat64]

All I wanted tonight was effort!

They are delivering in spades.

Our challenge is always the 80 minutes..... fingers crossed.

 

[Buddy Love]

Complete waste of time. Some exhausted player has to spit out a couple of cliches. Who needs it?

I guess they MUST have a female there otherwise it's sexist 😂

But the people are... retarded

 

[Chunkytuna]

Loving the defensive mindset tonight. Fast line speed, grit in each tackle and making them hurt. That’s the attitude in defence we need every week. That’s semi finals footy.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Unfortunately, if Storm turn it on second half we can easily lose this, but can’t complain about the effort and doing our best with our limitations.

Even if we lose from here ( which I expect ) you gotta say this is what we have wanted from them all year.

That’s all we could expect from this game.

If we win , we’ll **** me !!!

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

High completion rate and great defensive line against them coming out of their red zone, sometimes pushing them back. They're a top side with great discipline, going to have to match that first half performance to be there at the end I think.

 

[Brookie1973]

Best half of football this season from Manly.

Yep, best since the first half at Newcastle 😀

 

[Fred]

Once again, Manly by 20

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Our challenge is always the 80 minutes..... fingers crossed.

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

 

[LeonardCohen]

Yep, best since the first half at Newcastle 😀

Much better opposition so I have this a fair way ahead of the Newcastle 1st half.

 

[Ashton Davis]

I'm actually impressed... first time I've ever seen Jake fire up and def wasn't a penalty

Trent shoved first and wouldn’t play the ball in the correct spot. Couldn’t believe Melbourne got the penalty out of it

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Once again, Manly by 20

You were , I think , the ONLY one

 

[HK_Eagle]

And let me add, as a dollar chaser Evan’s critic, he has turned up tonight and played well. 👏

 

[Dingo]

Pleasantly surprised. Everyone doing pretty well.

Bittersweet though I tell ya. Why doesn’t this team have the mental ability to get up for games like they have tonight on a weekly basis? We are deadly when we actually care and go all effort.

Need to keep it up in the second half, they’ll get us easy still if we even come close to sleeping a little.

This next 40 is massive for our season 👀

 

[Fibro Eagle]

Even if we lose from here ( which I expect ) you gotta say this is what we have wanted from them all year.

That’s all we could expect from this game.

If we win , we’ll **** me !!!

No just a hand shake will do 😛

 

[Brookie1973]

Flanagan going off. Good on him. But he will cop a fine.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

With apologies to Kurt Capewell, we know Melbourne are going to come at us hard after the break. We have to go at them - harder. (Again, with apologies to Kurt Capewell.)

 

[The Insomniac]

If you could choose someone to kick a goal from the sideline, for your life I wouldn't be choosing Reubin. Bring Fogaty next year !

 

[Brookie1973]

Much better opposition so I have this a fair way ahead of the Newcastle 1st half.

I was just being a smartarse. We are not immune to a poor 2nd half so just warning against complacency, given what happened at newie.

 

[Chunkytuna]

Trent shoved first and wouldn’t play the ball in the correct spot. Couldn’t believe Melbourne got the penalty out of it

Agree. That should’ve just been play on. Love jakey getting passionate and roughing him up. Love that!!

 

[nightster]

Me neither. Did think we’d be in it at half time. Then I predict the storm will wake up after receiving a baking from Bellamy.

I hope not I backed us in the tipping comp