Match Thread vs Manly

[Joely01]

Have you watched him before the last 6 weeks? Of course they're sticking now. When we beat the Tigers the week before they started their run he threw several bad ones.

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[EELICIT]

Have you watched him before the last 6 weeks? Of course they're sticking now. When we beat the Tigers the week before they started their run he threw several bad ones.

WTF ? He was injured wasn't he ?

 

[Eels Dude]

WTF ? He was injured wasn't he ?

No he played in that game.

 

[Jake the snake]

As much as I love Hindy he has "poor quality captain" written all over him and no longer is he an 80 minute player.

Nathan should now be used for 2 x 30 minute sessions per game. Take him off 10 minutes before half-time and and bring him back on with 30 minutes or less to go.

He is mainly a defensive player now so if we are doing well in the points department during the first half we should take him off and use him only if we need to solidify our defense particularly while we are still in front.

His attacking game is just too predictable and he does not have the firepower to regularly bend the line.

Nathan is on the fast down-slide of his game/career now.

He must not be our captain next year.

Love you Nathan but you don't have the essential captain skills listed amongst the many natural skills packaged and gifted in your awesome footy body mate.


I think Reni M should be our captain next year.

I got slammed for saying that Hindmarsh needs to be subbed last week. Anyway it needs to happen he's running on old legs and he needs the break. It will help his running game immensely.

 

[Patorick]

Warren Ryan sounds devastated, closet Parra fan, or Manly hater?

Manly hater.

Besides the two years we had Ben Kennedy.

 

[EELICIT]

No he played in that game.

Prior to our game champ ! He was throwing them. Now he is being selective but he has blokes around him that can see where he is going !

 

[Hallatia]

Is it just me, or did this game feel an awful lot like our last one against them?
I do think we were better in the one at Brookey though.

 

[ParraSteve]

David riccio has just tweeted that poore has been taken to hospital due to dizzy spells

 

[EELICIT]

David riccio has just tweeted that poore has been taken to hospital due to dizzy spells

Hope he's ok. Must be the premiersip winning dragons that have im in a daze ! No harm just Pun !

 

[natheel]

I hate manly!!! I hate Jamie Lyon and I hate DES f**king hasler!!! Bunch of merkins

 

[Haynzy]

Glen Stewart with his patronising head holding was pissing me off.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Is it just me, or did this game feel an awful lot like our last one against them?
I do think we were better in the one at Brookey though.

Mate we were a lot better in the Brookvale game, we gave it to Manly for 78 minutes and its usually tough to do against Manly.

Tonight both sides were awful, but we were much worse.

If Casey McGuire is still the halfback next week, then we can forget about another win.

Surely there are better halfbacks and 5/8s running around.

 

[bartman]

we have gone away from the game plan again in the 2nd half, is this because we don't have a dominate half to direct play or is it because we have a captain who us too quiet on the field?

Or a coach that can't give a half-time talk to full effect?

 

[bartman]

i think next year with Sandow he has to be dominate and Hayne has to go back to fullback, on tonights form he'd be on the wing.

Not a bad idea to be honest.... I still think it's his best position, and he can do the wonderful attacking stuff he had done sniffing around from fullback equally well with a roving commission in attack from the wing (like Nathan Blacklock).

 

[Hallatia]

Mate we were a lot better in the Brookvale game, we gave it to Manly for 78 minutes and its usually tough to do against Manly.

Tonight both sides were awful, but we were much worse.

If Casey McGuire is still the halfback next week, then we can forget about another win.

Surely there are better halfbacks and 5/8s running around.

I agree, I wasn't referring to the quality of the game so much as the movement of the game. We actually looked like a good team in the Brookvale game. We haven't done that in a while. Actually, Brookvale was probably the last time we looked good.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Or a coach that can't give a half-time talk to full effect?

:lol: @ You blaming those errors on the team talk

 

[Kornstar]

Manly have the Melbourne game plan, play dirty, get a few early penalties and that then pressures the referees to not only put the whistle in their pocket when the count is getting too high but a few square ups happen too......

Hope we use that tactic next year, it really is quite effective!!!

I wish we had half of Manly's aggression!!!!

 

[Hallatia]

Melbourne and Manly also have some of the best halves in the comp. I wish we had that.

 

[Fifty Metre Line]

Anyone else see when Luke Burt was lining up his final conversion and Michael Robertson ran over and kicked the ball off the tee?

 

[bartman]

:lol: @ You blaming those errors on the team talk

Read the post quoted that I was replying to...

It asked "we have gone away from the game plan again in the 2nd half, is this because we don't have a dominate half to direct play or is it because we have a captain who us too quiet on the field?"

Neither post said anything to do with "those errors"... my reply was offering a third option to the problem posed in the question. lol @ your eagerness to protect your superhero coach from any criticism at all, even when it's hypothetical...:crazy: