Game Day: Titans v Manly [Round 15, 2021]

[Rafferty]

This half started badly when we concede a soft penalty for an escort when Tom had it covered and apart from 3 minutes of Tom we are not at the races and conceding so many soft tries from kicks is frigging annoying!! Its been a weakness for too long.

Tom let him know too

 

[Simonmyers11]

I would agree. But on those last 2 Titans tries we dropped the ball.
We have to stay calm and hold the ball. The game will come back to us.

and we dropped the ball cleaning up two kicks on our own line, the next sets they score off kicks. Need to do better defending kicks. We go great holding them out until the 5th, then get undone

 

[Cliffymagic]

Our Achilles heel, we do NOT deal with attacking kicks!!!! Bloody pathetic!! No urgency to concede 5 tries from kicks and give up six agains because we dont deal with kicks. Its been a problem for far too long and it is not addressed!!!!

Bloody outh. . Other teams will employ this tactic now.
We have to fix it fast.

 

[court83]

I would agree. But on those last 2 Titans tries we dropped the ball.
We have to stay calm and hold the ball. The game will come back to us.

I was confident at 20-8 that we could come back when the inevitable even up happens (unless it's a knights type game and it never comes)
But 16 points now gonna be hard to chase down in 4 point increments...
You know Garrick won't be hitting any conversions unless we score every try under the posts

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

Embarassing. They are just watching them

there is absolutely nothing 'embarrassing' except the "6 again TMC" (Total Momentum Control) rule, the players are going fine otherwise.......

 

[Waz13]

This hard to watch... but I still feel confident we’ll turn this around..

We get the first after the break snd get sone possession we are back in it. Remember last weeks game v Easts. Score was similar

 

[davohan123]

I am typically a one eyed Manly fan, but Manly are deserving of what they are getting this game. No patience with the ball or respect for the opposition. They are move up for 3 plays in def, then hanging off on key plays and no positional play behind to recover grubbers.

Compare this to say parts performance worlds apart.

I fear for the dogs in 2 weeks if we get badly beaten today.

It's like our boys have been reading there own press.

This is not the manly team I have been watching this year.

What is it with us and playing poorly right before a bye.

 

[Jigzkiller]

29 missed tackles in a half of football we all know who does the hard work in this team Jake.


same old same old lose against the knights it's the nrl we beat the cowboys no mention of the nrl or the refs. We have turned up today as a lazy team and all I hear about are it's the nrl or the refs fault fmd

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

Awful performance, No commitment in defence, looks like they forgot to show up. This is god's way of telling the dreamers, No Grand Final this year.

bollocks

 

[bob dylan]

Call me insane but I have seen enough of both teams to think we could still win this.

We could also get beaten by 40.

Seriously I think we are in this up to our necks. 31% of the ball in the first half is unbelievable, if we can get 55% in the second half they will fold.

 

[Cameron]

5 tries from kicks just isnt good enough. however id like to know who at the Titans got down on their knees and serviced referee atkins. serious the flog should be in aqua.

 

[Fibro Eagle]

70% possession , 3-0 restarts 4-1 penalties I’d be disappointed if Manly didn’t lead by 40 if they had those stats and they scored all tries from kicks

 

[Simonmyers11]

we need to swing the possession around and get some 6 to go. If we can get ball down there end, their D lots terrible. Big lead to give up though. Will have to be a perfect second half

 

[Remy]

came here expecting an easy win. Thought we learnt from the Newcastle game smh

 

[mave]

Surely momentum will swing to us for a period.
We need to cash in, when it does.

 

[grassy]

Dropping too much ball at crucial times and not covering their kicks in play. We are nowhere at the moment and makes me wonder if we even have a game plan. I hope we can come out at half time and switch on. We need the ball.

 

[Bren]

Noticed Cust was in the dressing room with the team, so maybe injured?

His 19 th man today

 

[Spartan Eagle]

We just need to hold on to the ball and dont allow their ball players to drift laterally uncontested and we will go close to winning the game.

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

Call me insane but I have seen enough of both teams to think we could still win this.

We could also get beaten by 40.

Seriously I think we are in this up to our necks. 31% of the ball in the first half is unbelievable, if we can get 55% in the second half they will fold.

100% accurate synopsis

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Just need a fair share of possession to get back into the game. But to do that we're going to need to hang onto the ball. Bad errors from Turbo and Harper (although I thought the first guy who hit him before he lost the ball was way offside) really cost us.

As for the 10 metres, how far has this guy got us standing back? Hard to get much line speed when you're forced to go back more than 10 metres. Doesn't seem to be applying the same measure to the Titans.