Snake is bang on about the NRL can't give him, Manly and the fans back those 4 games at the start of 2009.
Manly were premiers but without Snake we lost those 4 games.
Then in his comeback game Snake got 3 tries in Manly's win over Wests. The next week he got 2 more tries & Manly beat Souths.
But in that game he got a knee injury & Manly never got him back until the final round.
Who knows, but those four missed games robbed Snake of match fitness and may well have contributed to the knee injury happening.
If we'd had Snake in those games and even won just two of them, Manly would have been in the top 4 for the finals and not forced to cop facing Storm in Melbourne in the 4 v 5 semi and the home town favours they get..