A few of the posts here summarise Manu and epitomise him very well.
The finger above after he scored was in honour of Sonny Fai, rest in peace Sonny, God bless your soul young man.
Yes he had the Parra clanger, but as stated above, he came back against Parramatta with a typically dominant display in the next game.
The one that stands out for me is a battle he had with Aku Uate. The media were labelling it as Aku, the best winger in the game, v his nearest rival. Manu, as was typical with his opponent on the day, destroyed Aku. I guess looking at Aku, a fair player in his own right, v Manu, Manu's longevity is amazing. He's outlasted a lot of flavours of the month.
Manu was always good for 150-200 metres per game. Usually he'd break a ton of tackles, and get many quick play the balls. He was ultra effective at getting the Warriors moving up field quickly and creating space for others to exploit. He is the only player to score 10 tries in 10 consecutive seasons. His try scoring ratio per game of 0.67 per game is only bettered by a handful of players, and this was on the back end of playing outside of the likes of Grant Rovelli for a fair proportion of his time on the wing.
Don't forget his Kiwis performances... 22 tries in 29 test matches, a good portion against dominant Australian teams.
In terms of errors, worthwhile remembering his error rate also included the attacking cross kick bombs. He made an art form for a while of bat backs for tries, if not scoring directly himself, but of course every now and then they go forward as well.
Manu scored tries that others simply didn't score. And that was usually after a mack truck full of work to get the Warriors into that position.
He's a top bloke, who is all about his community as well. He will be missed by Warriors fans thats for sure, a polarising figure but you could never doubt his commitment and effort. He ranks only behind Stacey Jones and the great Simon Mannering as far as all time great Warriors go for mine. I hope he does extremely well in the UK, seriously, if he was at his physical peak his try scoring efforts in that competition would be the stuff of legend.
