LeonardCohen
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Since he won the Churchill in 2013, I have only his 2014 and 2017 seasons as close to the form he is currently showing.
What an achievement - third most capped manly player behind cliffy and beaver. Could over take both in two years.
Said for so long. DCE needed someone alongside him to take the pressure off him as the sole play maker. Turbo is an essential ingredient of course. Croker tries his heart out, though I still think he'd make one hell of a lock. Its having a five eighth who creates the space that was the important final ingredient. The importance of having that spine with top talent was always essential. This backline was just waiting for a couple of halves to set them alight. If they can keep this side together for the rest of the year they could be contenders.
That's a very good question. Celebrating DCE's 300th at WIN would be a huge bummer. (I've only been there once and it was the worst away game I've been to, for various reasons). I swore I'd never go there again.Does anyone know what the club's plans are for DCE's 300th game?
He's currently on 294 so assuming he plays the next two games for Origin then backs up and plays after both then his 300th looks like it will be v the Dragons @ Wollongong in Rd 22 which is a bit of a bummer for us fans.
Rd 23 v the Chooks @ the SCG
The next home game would be Rd 24 v the Panthers ( game 302).
Probs a bit difficult for the club to make any concrete plans but would be good to hear what they may be planning and when?
I can't see us doing a Canberra and resting him for the home fans.
That's a shame, we haven't won at the gong since nobby fell off the bus. ...an awful long time.That's a very good question. Celebrating DCE's 300th at WIN would be a huge bummer. (I've only been there once and it was the worst away game I've been to, for various reasons). I swore I'd never go there again.
Can't see Manly doing a Canberra and sitting him out for not one but two away games. Imo it has to be celebrated at Brookie and if it's game 302 then so be it.
I think our last win in Wollongong was going on 20 years now.
DCE is having a great year, easily his best since he was alongside Blake Green at least
Even in his poor years I think DCE tried his guts out. In many of his poorest games I think he was trying too hard. This is definitely his best year in a long while though.His best year in quite a few years , even in the losses he’s trying his guts out.
Succession means what comes after. It means you have someone ready to take over the mantle, it doesn't mean you move someone aside early to give the replacement some practice.We need a succession plan in the halves and I'd be bringing Latu Fainu thru to partner Schuster during the 2024 season. Its about the team not the player.
Here is one for you..... and this is open to both the negative Nancy's and the optimists:
How much longer will DCE play for manly?
There is every argument right now that he is in the top 3 halfbacks in the game. he is maroons captain, rarely injured, and incredibly consistent.
If he was 25, we'd be offering him a 10 year deal!
So realistically - given the current state of play - how much longer does he play?
I make no apologies for being a HUGE DCE fan. So naturally I am optimistic about the chances.... and I believe that 34 means nothing these days. I can easily see him playing 2 more seasons..... potentially even 3. That would make him one of the most capped players of all time, and certainly would see him clinch the Manly record.
300 is an amazing achievement for a player many on here think is over paid and over rated....
For mine, he is a premiership away from being in the manly 'top 3' (which in my head is Bozo, Beaver and ... currently it would be Eadie - but he would be relegated/usurped)
Have you just found this site recently? Your observations seem astute but could follow the pattern of less outrageous posters with a higher 'cred courting' (look at me trying to be like hipsters) algorithm sterling [I think he's a UFC fighter]. I get the Leonard Nimoy reference because it's from a Jeff Buckley song that some old guy covered for a Shreck movie like Rolf Harris covered 'Stairway to heavens by lynard snkinnard after Forest Gump made the Vietnam War popular and king John I'm popular. Thanks boomers!'Since he won the Churchill in 2013, I have only his 2014 and 2017 seasons as close to the form he is currently showing.
I agree with this agreement.That's virtually stating the two years of Foran brought back into 5/8th really didn't work for DCE or Manly.
I agree.
Levels man levels....Leonard "Nimoy" was Spock in Star Trek and after trying to decipher that post...it too is like Spock and is 'out of this world'
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24 | 17 | 7 | 186 | 40 | |
24 | 16 | 8 | 275 | 38 | |
24 | 16 | 8 | 222 | 38 | |
24 | 15 | 9 | 89 | 36 | |
24 | 14 | 10 | 96 | 34 | |
24 | 13 | 10 | 113 | 33 | |
24 | 12 | 12 | -40 | 30 | |
24 | 12 | 12 | -127 | 30 | |
24 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 28 | |
24 | 11 | 13 | -126 | 28 | |
24 | 10 | 14 | -70 | 26 | |
24 | 9 | 14 | -62 | 25 | |
24 | 8 | 16 | -168 | 22 | |
24 | 7 | 17 | -155 | 20 | |
24 | 7 | 17 | -188 | 20 | |
24 | 6 | 18 | -287 | 18 |