Yep Mario, that's all pretty much spot on.
Joey was always gonna be the big man and teach Canberra a lesson single handed. It only got worse when his bro got hit late/high/forearm/head. Every thing BJ did from there was fuelled and blinded by revenge. You could just see he was gonna fkk up every single time he got the ball. Even 60 minutes after LL was hit, BJ was still seeing red.
Garner pissed me off when he single handedly gave his team a reaming early in the second half when he half tackled Wighton for absolutely SFA net result after he put a kick through.
The resulting 12 minutes of Canberra camped on our line cost us 8 points and smoked any chance we had of staying in the game.
To say it was the turning point of the game is so revoltingly obvious it still makes me sick now.
The worst of it was to see Garner and Wighton share a laugh over it as if they were u/14 team mates somewhere.
Moombeye can fkk off right now.
I was disappointed with Liddle. Jesus H Christ on horseback !!! how many fkking forward passes did he throw ??!!!
For a team that pumped Manly in so many ways . . . we didn't put a single fair dinkum attacking shot at Canberra all day.
Laurie was well marked and didn't have much effect, but still played well. Luciano, Joffa, Stefano played well. Tamou went OK.
BJ, Brooks, Liddle Moombeye and Garner really need to step up. Until today, I was a Brooks and Liddle fan.
Here are 3 positives
1. Defence showed a great deal of improvement in first half
2. New players all played well;
3. When we had the ball we were able to make metres with it. This has always been a huge problem
Too early to throw the toys out of the pram but I do tend to think:
- BJ Leilua may not see out the season with us. Madge is not going to put up with his dumb shit for too long.
- Luke Garner needs to lift. Really poor in defence and that brain snap to start the second half was a huge moment in the game
- Mbye is not a half. The most we can hope from him is some injury cover off the bench throughout the year.
I would tear up bjs contract. And replace him with momo......, oh wait, we got rid of him!
I would tear up bjs contract. And replace him with momo......, oh wait, we got rid of him!
Here are 3 positives
Good post as well Vic.Good post and going back over the game isn’t as bad as it all seems. For starters there are a group of five teams Miles ahead of everyone else, the Raiders are firmly in this 5. From 6- 13 there isn’t going to be much seperating them.
The Raiders scored 2 tries off (fairly lucky) kicks and the other off a broken play turn over which should have been a try to us.
All 5 of their tries were after they got the ball from our mistake. They didn’t roll their way down field like teams so often do to us.
We won the territory when it was set for set. Yes we struggled when we got down that end however we had 3 new players in our spine. It’s not going to come together immediately. The Raiders have had virtually the same team for 3 years now, it clicks much easier for them.
Whilst our 6&7 were horrendous one of them is gone this week and there is a genuine alternative (Madden) if the 7 continues the shit.
The 2 glaring selections for mine:
Garner needs to go, his defence is barely nsw cup standard. We also need a left winger. Kepeoa has potential but isn’t there. It was a tough pass from Laurie early in the game but a first grade winger needs to take those. The break we made he stuffed up which caused the turn over and a 12 point turn around.
I’m not expecting us to beat the Roosters, will likely see a similar scoreline to yesterday, however we can handle these losses. It’s the 6-16 teams we need to make it count against. If we win 60% of games against them we make the finals.
I wonder who will kick next week? Such a luxury to have options in this area for a change.It's a shame we had to let him go to get Laurie this year. As much as I love Momo, I don't think I could have tolerated another year of not having a fullback.
Here's another. Brooks was 100% with goal kicking.
Garner needs to go, his defence is barely nsw cup standard. We also need a left winger. Kepeoa has potential but isn’t there. It was a tough pass from Laurie early in the game but a first grade winger needs to take those. The break we made he stuffed up which caused the turn over and a 12 point turn around."