The Stats of the GF show the story

[Berkeley_Eagle]

Completions
Manly 21/33 (63.6%)
Storm 37/43 (86%)

Penalties
Manly 2
Storm 5

Line Breaks
Manly 2
Storm 10

Total Runs

Manly 146
Storm 196

Metres
Manly 1165
Storm 1887

Tackles
Manly 370
Storm 272

Missed Tackles
Manly 67
Storm 30

Dummy Half runs
Manly 18
Storm 28

Errors
Manly 12
Storm 7

TOP tacklers
Manly
Monas 55
Stewart 42
Willo 39

Top Missed Tackles
Watmough 15
Monas 7
King 6

 

[Ryan]

Jezuuuuuz...hope choc hasn't done himself out of a green and goid jersey !!

 

[DSM5]

I wouldn't pick him on last nights performance. He was bad. Missed tackles, ran sideways, passed poorly and generally looked ill at ease, to say the least. No one from the eagles will be picked imo, Maybe Kite, but on last nights game wouldn't deserve to be. Matai for NZ only.

 

[Ryan]

Matai was **** mate....just ****. He's aliability in defence...and I have to say I agree with Dan now on this bum.

 

[fLIP]

How can you justify not picking a bloke on 1 bad game after a season thats shown he is the DallyM second rower of the year?

 

[byso]

It was one hell of a bad game though.

 

[fLIP]

It was 1 game, its just disapointing it was the GF.

He's played out of his skin the previous 26 games.

 

[DSM5]

Flip, I said I wouldn't pick Choc on last nights performance and that's exactly what the selectors did. To get picked he needed Stuart to see beyond his Sharks blinkers and the GF. Beats me how Kite got in the team as a run on prop. There's at least three better props running around, and two of them are Storm players. Ryan, Matai wasn't so ****e. He scored, carried the ball forward and imo was our best impact player. Sure he was at fault in the first try, but not the other ones. Imo the first try was scored from a running interference. We would have been penalized for it, but the ref was biased in the storm's favour throughout the entire match. They were offside in the kicks and stood off side in the marking all game.