If Hicks is out then Bani (Barny) comes in, correct?
Oh.
He's the guy who made his debut against the Worriors, right?
(I watched that game and saw the injustices with the ref.)
Bani'll be your weak link, you know? So keep an eye on him! I'd get Jamie Lyon's to cover for him after 20mins.
(Lyon's not a five/eight!) Protect Bani at all costs, Manly! It's a big ask throwing him in a game like this with little experience.
Listen, Manly......you have all our support, ok?
Make our Grand Final night a memorable one, ok? You and Parra, alright?
I'm sick and tired of these interstate teams being there on our Grand final night!
All SYD final, ok? OWE-KAY!!!!!
I was gonna go for Watmough for man of the match tonight but.......doesn't he get replaced after 20 minutes? It's a bad bet isn't it?
You need an 80 minute player.
So, I think Ox and Monahagn for channel nines man of the match for me.
Anthony Watmough though, for first try scorer. Or last.
I'm backing those 4 options.
Ox has too step up to the plate tonight as he hasn't shone for man of the match in a long time.
Expect a lot of 40/20's from either ox or Mona's tonight.
Will the weather play a part in the outcome of tonights match? Hmmm, no! Not really.
The only thing you guys have to worry about tonight is Thurston. That's all.
I looked at the 2 teams thismorning and players for Cowboys 6 8 9 10 11 12 and 13 are sh*t.
And their bench is crud as well.
I mean player 13....doesn't he play on the wing? Henry is he?
Just concentrate on Thurston and Bowen. Shut them 2 down and you pretty much have them. What are they gonna rely on without them 2? Jason Smith?
(Hear Jason Smith last Sunday when Matty Johns interviewed him? Sounded like the mafia.)
Thurston is sh*t in the center of defense, ok? so what he'll do is jag-off on the wing and suck in breaths so he can burst back-in every so often to do his thing.
If he's gonna shirk defensive work then just stay away from his side of the field then.
I wouldn't attack him, if that's your plan, I'd leave him be and go to the opposite side of the field.
If he's so good a player then don't go to his side of the field.
Make him come to you.
He'll start doubting himself.
See, what a good Boxer will do to confuse an opponent, if they can't get on the inside is, step back, they'll walk around the edge of the ring and draw their opponent out to them then they stick 'em with the jab and have them coming into their offensive. Make them come to you!
Draw Thurston in....let him come to you if he wants to play on the wing.
He's a coward like Benji.
That's some weak sh*t shirking it on the wing.
It's rather chicken sh*t of players like Thurston and Frank Pritchard to play on the fringe of the centers. They're like vultures picking off the easy pickings after the beasts have done all the hard work.
He reminds me of the Qiwi's of old when interchange was unlimited. Attack till you're spent then rest for 5 on the wing then charge again when you're fresh.
If it's any indication of a strong Manly side I shudder to see Cuthbertson as player 18.
Your bench in solid, Manly.
Your forwards have it over them, Manly! So steam-roll through them!
Make it a forwards game and grind it out in the center of the field and prove my Ox + Mona's bet wrong!
Win it in the forwards.
They can't match it with you in that department. Their forwards are standing on one leg already.
Thing-O...Carl Webb! He's stupid for even trying to get on the field tonight with a 4cm tear in the calf.
Won't last 20 minutes. He'll do more damage taking the injection and taking the field. Don't these players think long term?
Hit their forwards hard and they'll fall like a pack of cards!
Their halves can't do their thing if their forwards aren't going forward so out of commission.
Drop these f*ckers in a hot L.Z. tonight and let 'em burn!
Faust? Henry? Cashmire? Who? Who are they to stand up to Manly?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It'll get that way tonight that Thurston will have to act as a front row forward as their second rate chargers will be flat out tired!
No go forward no, flashy play!
Cut 'em down like f*cking Redwoods! They shouldn't even dare take the field in the state they're in relying on two players only.
I'm with you Manly.
P.S. if it is going to be a forwards game then who is a player to put safe money on?
Who's ya best forward?
An 80 min forward?
P.P.S. one more thing about The MLB Storm if you have to face them next week.
You can either sit back and marvel at them in wonder, caught in a trance, or you can turn your face and take the initiative to them.
Everyone's so damn caught up in them that they don't believe in themself.
Stop watching them in wonder and awe.
Snap out of it for f**ks sake!
