stormshark
Jaws
I still feel SICK IN THE GUTS! Have never copped so much **** from Eagles mates over a game in my life.I don't think we can blame anyone other than too many mistakes from our team -for the loss.
Wright can hardly be blamed for the way that ball bounced. Sheer luck.
Awesome post bastard - we were robbed blind.
We still played like a Finals side - we have a good team!
Please folks - at least see that?
We did in no way deserve that result.
He got KO'd in like the 12th minute and went off. Came back into the game later on.
Thats very true Matt - but the amount of pill manly had in the second half , there was a 10 minute period we didnt touch the ball FFS , makes it very hard for any team to compete.
I do however still worry about Flannos comment the other week that we need to compete for 70 mins
Agreed, it would be a crime if Wright was dropped after that, he finally broke his try drought, which means many more to come, good under the high ball. Can't really fault him, only critisim he was caught out of position once or twice, but I can't think of many other wingers in our team that wouldn't of been in those circumstances.
Your right, our only problem this year is we haven't played for the full 80 minutes, we let teams back in the game, or when we are already behind, we let them get away from us. We fix this, we can beat anybody.
Cost me bloody SuperCoach points though. Grrrrr!! :rant
stapleton is simmo 2.0
We played hard for the full 80 - the refs were the difference.
We let in 2 arsy tries because we'd been flogged to death by poor refereeing giving Manly 1000s of repeat sets of 6. Can't call tries soft in those circumstances. Very few teams can make that many tackles in a row without tiring somewhere.
What scoring Try's and winning games?
After watching the game several times I can tell you Wright could of easily gotten that ball. Wright started to chase and pulled back to let Gardner go for it, who was about 5-10 meters away. I've never liked Wright at wing and think Staplton should be there. Don't get me wrong I think Wrights a good player, just not a winger.
no, a flat out soft cock
Agreed, it would be a crime if Wright was dropped after that, he finally broke his try drought, which means many more to come, good under the high ball. Can't really fault him, only critisim he was caught out of position once or twice, but I can't think of many other wingers in our team that wouldn't of been in those circumstances.
Your right, our only problem this year is we haven't played for the full 80 minutes, we let teams back in the game, or when we are already behind, we let them get away from us. We fix this, we can beat anybody.
Cost me bloody SuperCoach points though. Grrrrr!! :rant
We didn't have the ball because of silly penalties. We can say the ref was helping Manly, but some of our play in that passage, especially from Aiton, was just plain stupid, symbolised by the embarrassing try to George Rose.
You mean the no-try (forward pass).
I'm sorry, but the way Rose strolled through was down right embarrassing. I was there, some of those penalties were fair dinkum, we just fell apart in that set and it cost us.
After watching the game several times I can tell you Wright could of easily gotten that ball. Wright started to chase and pulled back to let Gardner go for it, who was about 5-10 meters away. I've never liked Wright at wing and think Staplton should be there. Don't get me wrong I think Wrights a good player, just not a winger.
No try remember - forward pass.
And the bolded part - what about the penalties we didn't get? in the 2nd half????????????????
They were offside, all over us in play the balls, and we were deliberately prevented from rolling up the field when we needed to.
Doesn't matter if you were there or not - the decisions are the same whether you're at the game or on the moon.
Get a grip mate - we were robbed in that half - end of story. Not saying we could've limited some of our mistakes, but ffs you can't keep defending that many sets without cracking - especially when they had to pass forward to crack us!
My next point - the mods have moved the thread - who says you can't win with a 13 point lead? Ask the Ponies tonight.
I've got a grip mate. Its this kind of 'blame the ref' excuses which starts us on our usual downward spiral. We need to accept responsibility for our loss and move on.