Round 15 - v Manly

[Dragons4me]

Saab scores with 8 minutes to go. DCE shows his class to set up the try and win. Clever work by him. You just know DCE's going to set something up. Something I never see in Hunt in a similar situation and whilst he's had a good year, there's the difference between the 7's.

 

[Dragon David]

Got to admit, you cannot beat speed. We looked like slow coaches today. Looking forward to the bye are our players and not wanting to play tough today. Played in halves again, Second half this time - bad.

 

[RedVee]

I’m so disappointed.

So the secret is to be behind at halftime?
I’ve no answers

 

[Number of the Beath]

They were in this game and just fell away. Can’t win them all. I’m not overly angry at the effort. I’m not cheering about it either.

You're being generous.
They have been garbage.

 

[Old Timer]

We should never have been a position to be whinging about late refereeing decisions when the game is already well and truly gone

Our stereotyped and telegraphed playing style completely picked apart.

We had plenty of opportunities to play positive attacking football and we completely f**ked up

 

[jeffdragon]

Opportunity knocked and we weren't home.
They were down big time.
Poor game.
When things go our way today we fcked it.
Big chance to be in the 8 and this.
Didn't tire them out.
Thought we too structured in 2nd half.
At ht Thought in won't be a big score but I was wrong.
f**k THE BUNKER.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

There's absolutely NO excuses for that half ......that was top shelf rubbish in its finest form

 

[<StGeorgeDragons>]

After watching Liddell today I say yes to Damien Cook.
And watching Hunt would make you say yes to Ben Kusto.

No disrespect to Liddell or Cook, both good players in their peak but we should be more concerned about getting an actual star hooker otherwise Cook is just a repeat. Cook, Brown, Mulheisen, and Liddle and not a match winner between them. We have a real sickness at our club.

 

[Greek Saint]

Pathetic

 

[KogarahWarrior]

Few points:

Why is Liddle playing 80? Seriously what is the point of that?

Feagai twins went Ok and I think Max deserves more ball as he actually looked decent on that right hand side.

Sloan needs to take more straight runs. He gets folded when he runs sideways. His running gait makes him hard to tackle when he's squeezing between defenders yet he runs sideways fending everything in sight and getting nowhere and has been doing this for a few weeks.

Hunt was best today when he went to dummy half, which was like 5 times... Hey, I wonder if there's a reason for that...

Leilua can't tackle

Tuipolotu isn't dreadful but offers nothing, especially since he "knows" the Manly plays which is why he played, I'm assuming but it clearly didn't pay of... At all. I'd much rather Finau learn his trade instead as he's an athlete.

Lomax needs to stop trying to go to centre and pushing Max out to the wing

 

[KogarahWarrior]

After watching Liddell today I say yes to Damien Cook.
And watching Hunt would make you say yes to Ben Kusto.

Not Liddles fault

 

[RedV Resurgence]

Manly deservce the win.
We need to be mentally tougher.
The NRL need to investigate and advise how it is possible to get decisions wrong in the bunker.

 

[56to66]

I keep saying over and Dean Young is the worst defensive coach and coach period.
When a big game is on the line illawarra steelers crumble.
You can only pull down pants of the opposition a few times, they are fast running out of Draw cards.

 

[<StGeorgeDragons>]

We can talk about Feagais, Sloan, Tuipolutu, Liddle, Eisenhuth, Lawrie etc til the cows come home but until we sign some talent with all the money we have to spare we will just be forever be talking about a team that's not really competitive.

SIGN SOME PLAYERS DRAGONS!!

 

[matPORTS]

Felt we were lazy overall today. Most likely with minds on the bye and for those who will be off to Origin camp, just trying to get through the match.

Can't say too much more, other than that's 7 & 7 with a lot of work still to do, both individual and as a combined effort, if we have ambitions of finishing the regular season in the eight.

 

[<StGeorgeDragons>]

I know the word gets used a lot....

...but that was the definition of EMBARRASSING.

I have seen some bad losses but this is the worst this year on a number of levels. That went from a no excuses situation to being rolled.

 

[Dragonsdiehard]

All things considered, a pretty average (lazy) effort from us.... No real stand outs today at all which is disappointing considering what we know what they can do. DCE outshone Hunt whose kicking game was off and running game non-existent!

 

[Get2dachopper!]

It was DCE and his benchless side that out played Hunt and his fully fit team. It can’t be underestimated how much pressure Hunts rubbish kicking game puts on this team.

 

[Murfy]

Max Feagai has turned into a beast

 

[Dragon David]

Flanno's game plan not good today. Players seemed flat. Lomax not on his game. Manly wanting the win more and when a team gets that go forward in them and being led by a couple of forwards knowing that they have lost a couple through injury and the speed of their backs better than our slow coach ones, Manly only needed to guts it out and the points came. We just didn't have any answers. We bombed a few tries, but just played poorly in the second half.

The game was definitely there for us to win and Flanno should have made sure that the guys' head spaces were positive.

Once a lead was established by Manly we again caved in like all of those other losses.

Next week is the bye. Won't need to open up another thread and maybe somebody else's turn to do it.

I've had a gut full of disappointments this week with this club.