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JASON AVEDISSIAN
11th of July 2006
MANLY have identified the next month of football as a chance to make their move towards the top four after ending a three-game losing streak against the Roosters on Saturday night.
The Sea Eagles got their 2006 NRL campaign back on track with a professional 33-16 win over the Roosters at Aussie Stadium.
The victory pushed Manly up to seventh spot.
With a relatively soft draw over the next month Manly can push towards the top four.
The Sea Eagles play last-placed Souths on Saturday night, before facing the Panthers and Parramatta.
They end the month with a round 22 bye.
``We do have a reasonable draw,'' hooker Michael Monaghan conceded.
``Hopefully we'll move up the table and set ourselves up for a good run towards the finals.
``But if we don't play the type of footy we played against the Roosters we'll struggle to win games.
``It comes back to us.''
Captain Ben Kennedy was another who is confident of climbing the table to repair some of the damage done following Manly's three losses prior to downing the Roosters.
``We worked really hard to get in a position up the top, then when it came to the crunch and we played a couple of teams we could have jumped ahead of, we folded,'' he said.
``One game (Newcastle) we played fairly poorly and the other two (Sharks/Broncos) we slackened off on a couple of occasions.
``I'm not happy with where we are (on the table), but, we can start climbing now if we knuckle down.''
The Roosters were fired up for the opening few minutes of Saturday night's clash before they faded away to suffer their sixth successive loss.
A brilliant solo try to Sea Eagles prop Brent Kite in the 10th minute started the Roosters' slide.
Chris Hicks followed it up soon after with a spectacular 80m four-pointer which included superb hands from fullback Brett Stewart.
Manly extended their 14-0 half-time lead with another converted try, this time to half Matt Orford who strolled through some non-existent Roosters defence.
Back-to-back tries to the Roosters gave their frustrated fans some hope midway through the second half before further Manly tries to Stewart and burly prop George Rose sealed the vital competition points.
11th of July 2006
MANLY have identified the next month of football as a chance to make their move towards the top four after ending a three-game losing streak against the Roosters on Saturday night.
The Sea Eagles got their 2006 NRL campaign back on track with a professional 33-16 win over the Roosters at Aussie Stadium.
The victory pushed Manly up to seventh spot.
With a relatively soft draw over the next month Manly can push towards the top four.
The Sea Eagles play last-placed Souths on Saturday night, before facing the Panthers and Parramatta.
They end the month with a round 22 bye.
``We do have a reasonable draw,'' hooker Michael Monaghan conceded.
``Hopefully we'll move up the table and set ourselves up for a good run towards the finals.
``But if we don't play the type of footy we played against the Roosters we'll struggle to win games.
``It comes back to us.''
Captain Ben Kennedy was another who is confident of climbing the table to repair some of the damage done following Manly's three losses prior to downing the Roosters.
``We worked really hard to get in a position up the top, then when it came to the crunch and we played a couple of teams we could have jumped ahead of, we folded,'' he said.
``One game (Newcastle) we played fairly poorly and the other two (Sharks/Broncos) we slackened off on a couple of occasions.
``I'm not happy with where we are (on the table), but, we can start climbing now if we knuckle down.''
The Roosters were fired up for the opening few minutes of Saturday night's clash before they faded away to suffer their sixth successive loss.
A brilliant solo try to Sea Eagles prop Brent Kite in the 10th minute started the Roosters' slide.
Chris Hicks followed it up soon after with a spectacular 80m four-pointer which included superb hands from fullback Brett Stewart.
Manly extended their 14-0 half-time lead with another converted try, this time to half Matt Orford who strolled through some non-existent Roosters defence.
Back-to-back tries to the Roosters gave their frustrated fans some hope midway through the second half before further Manly tries to Stewart and burly prop George Rose sealed the vital competition points.
