MK Eagle
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It showed respect to the Manly back 3. To apply pressure & kill the Seaeagles off there were 4 better options-bomb,grubber,chip or kick to space & put pressure on- maybe even cause an error. This would also have given Manly 2 attacking tackles as the players would have ambled back after tackle 3. The ploy is fair- it failed -they needed more points.Fonz said:Hayne was on his side of halfway when kicking most of these balls dead. Are you saying we wouldn't have brought the ball at least out to the 20m line and also we would have been running at their scattered chase? If they kick it dead they slow us down and get a defensive line set. They obviously weren't confident of keeping up with us in the later parts of the game and they monstered us up front a few times off these taps.
I agree there were times hayne should have dropped it shorter but at this point they were defending a lead and i'm convinced that had we have been given better opportunity to attack from our own half and have our back 3 more involved than they were allowed to be the score would have been much higher in favour of us.