Match Discussion: Round 12 vs Manly @ McDonald Jones Stadium

[Seage]

Only if Turbo miraculously withdraws due to injury.
I just can't see how our defence will stop them scoring 40 points and I just can't see how our attack can score more than 16.

 

[slotmachine]

Does anyone have any good feeling about this match? Even if it's a feeling we'll show effort, cohesion and no injuries?

The bad teams are putting 40 on us with 11 players, Manly will be disappointed not to hit 50.

 

[Yosh]

Does anyone have any good feeling about this match? Even if it's a feeling we'll show effort, cohesion and no injuries?

Of course. Tommy will have a super field day and score 5 and put on 3 more. Good feeling as a NSWelshman for sure!!

As a Knight, Jesus help us.

 

[mozza91]

I’m expecting us to be better. Can’t see us getting close though.

 

[Apey]

We'll score more points with Ponga and Best back. We will probably concede just as many though too.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Does anyone have any good feeling about this match? Even if it's a feeling we'll show effort, cohesion and no injuries?

I feel as good about our effort/cohesion as I have since 6 minutes into the Titans game.

 

[perverse]

Does anyone have any good feeling about this match? Even if it's a feeling we'll show effort, cohesion and no injuries?

Not even a flutter of positivity. Maybe we get a good 5 or 10 minutes at the start before Manly punch through our edges like tissue paper and remind us of our place in the competition.

I seriously don't see how we win games anymore. Our confidence is absolutely shattered and we are completely rudderless. Maybe - and it's a big maybe - we can turn it around when Pearce comes back and we have he and Clifford running the show. We need a huge catalyst mentally to bring some belief back - and that's about as close as we're going to get. If that doesn't spark us into any sort of form, then it's a looong painful grind through to a finals series we're definitely not involved in (and to be clear, even with a form reversal at that time, we're still not playing finals this year). We are so far off the pace of this competition. We're playing reserve grade/qld cup/real nrl tier football and I see no evidence that the coach or the club have any real answers at this point.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Not even a flutter of positivity. Maybe we get a good 5 or 10 minutes at the start before Manly punch through our edges like tissue paper and remind us of our place in the competition.

There's been lots of talk that our starts aren't good.
I reckon we come out with intensity but fall apart when we don't convert that into points or make an error or when they score. It doesn't take long. No resilience.

 

[perverse]

There's been lots of talk that our starts aren't good.
I reckon we come out with intensity but fall apart when we don't convert that into points or make an error or when they score. It doesn't take long. No resilience.

There have been matches where you can see it from the very first set in defence. No line speed, no intention, pathetic and submissive first contact. Sometimes it takes a few more sets or a try or two to break the spirit, but unfortunately it inevitably comes. Mentally they are completely shot.

 

[slotmachine]

I see no evidence that the coach or the club have any real answers at this point.

Coach looked like a man under a lot of pressure last week. I wonder what the owners think of our shithouse form.

 

[Seage]

Oh god. Tex Hoy is playing FB.

 

[mozza91]

Going to watch reserve grade Sunday might just leave after that.

 

[slotmachine]

Going to watch reserve grade Sunday might just leave after that.

Let us know how Bailey Hodgson goes. Only interest I have in this round.

 

[PhilGould]

Ponga ruled out again

 

[perverse]

So how many games do we get out of Ponga this year? lol. We are truly a cursed club.

 

[Seage]

Yep, only the valuable players get injured. Tuala? Shibasaki? Mann? Unbreakable.

I'm worried Hodgson is going to do himself a mischief in reggies and be out for 14 weeks.

 

[Jono078]

Oh FFS.

If Sportsbet offered odds on Ponga and Pearce playing a game together this year I'd be betting on no.

Wish Nathan Brown was here to tell him to stop being soft and just play.

 

[Jono078]

Yep, only the valuable players get injured. Tuala? Shibasaki? Mann? Unbreakable.

I'm worried Hodgson is going to do himself a mischief in reggies and be out for 14 weeks.

Every time I see your name I think of 2004..

Promising start to the year where it looked like we could be significant threat in the finals..

Seage a promising young bloke and ODavis' replacement has been found - does his ACL against the Eels and is never the same after that.

Young backrower Daniel Abraham has gone to another level and is talked about as a potential rep backrower.. Breaks his leg against the Warriors? Never returns the same player, not even close.

And of course the Johns ACL against the Eels - lucky for us he did come back good but there was tough times after that and we never reached the heights of being a genuine threat in the finals.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Oh god. Tex Hoy is playing FB.

Any remote expectation that we might put on a bit of a show has now gone.
It's like this game is an interim sacrifice until we get players back that could boost us into some sort of performance.

 

[Jono078]

I'm starting to feel like Old Boys day is our target for resetting our season - get a lot of troops back and some new editions... Beat the Eels and it could be a confidence boost for the place to make a real run, if it's not too late.