Round 22 vs Sea Eagles

[Number of the Beath]

Thanks for the GG reference, Ive been racking my brain on who Burns reminded me of in stature from the past….it was Grant. Grant however did not miss tackles and was an excellent goal kicker under pressure as well.

A great player.
What a forward pack we had then!
And a half back who looked like he gave a $hit, and a fullback who could catch a ball and tackle and wingers who could run.
Those were the days, my friend.

 

[be55]

My gut feeling is it will be a long night for us tomorrow tonight. Forget about last week, Manly will throw a hell of a lot more at us than the Tigers did. I guarantee they’ve been honing their right edge attack all week, which has been very good for them all year. That’s where they’ll be targeting. I can see it being a long night for Amone, Burns, Suli and Feagai. Olakau’atu, and the shape they present with their right edge attack will be very hard for us to contain, especially under fatigue defending the try line.

Seibold has that right edge humming. Don’t know what happened with him at Brisbane but the guy is a known tactician, and you can see that in the structure they attack with, especially that right edge. DCE is playing great football, and the dummy half is a very underrated player.

Ladder-wise, a very important game for them if they want to make the eight, with the draw not being kind to them over the next month. Throw in DCE’s 300th game and you’ve got the perfect storm.

My heart says Dragons, but my head says Manly in a canter.

Hoping I’m way off the mark…

WOW, I got that one completely wrong. Manly were absolutely terrible.

Half a game plan, some structure and purpose, and we win that game easy. But i suppose we haven't had those things for going on three years now.

The new coach, and pre-season, can't get here quick enough. So many bad habits to unlearn.

And people said Hook had us going in the right direction. Give me a break

 

[jeffdragon]

We lost it rather than Manly winning it.
One of the games where I thought we are a chance.
We give away penalties we know we are in trouble.
Gave Manly piggy backs.
Because we aren't a chance for the rest of them.
Lomax over 200 metres.
Hunt has had a shit year.
He is part of the problem, he needs to pull his finger out of his arse.
You just know we aren't going to win the close ones
Be good if we could keep Sloan on when we attack and take him off when we defend

 

[thebigredv]

Russell scored.

there’s the game right there.

 

[Number of the Beath]

Hunt has had a shit year.
He is part of the problem, he needs to pull his finger out of his arse.

Well, y'know - he played really well last year and still didn't win the Dally M - so, like, what's the point of trying?

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

A hip drop my fckin ass.
Only because the turd stayed down.

I agree if that was a hip drop Im Roger Federer.....and I don't play tennis......seriously these interpretations have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous now.....the bloke that was tackled actually rolled on to his back himself...utter bullshit

 

[R&WTILLIDIE]

Neither Sloane or Feagai return kicks with any speed or intensity. It's embarrassing to watch them power-walking towards the kick chasers who gleefully pick them off.
Not first grade standard, or even close.

And their defence…that’s a whole new level of embarrassing

 

[Gareth67]

Manly were somewhat shell shocked when our lads actually make a game of it . The sea eagles were reduced to a pack of screaming sea gulls when big Russ went over the line , but we cannot have rain falling on DCEvans 300th game so naturally the try was disallowed .

Still as already said by many members our bad habits eventually gave Manly the game .

 

[R&WTILLIDIE]

Wait. Just saw the replay. I take it back. Was worthy of a sin bin. My bad

Wait…I watched it again and it didn’t look too bad. I’m confused

 

[carltonsouth79]

Just watched the presser and Carr suitably animated and aggrieved. Some very dubious decisions. Tonight’s ref is one of the weakest we have in my opinion.
Having said that, with a lot of possession we mounted very little threat for most of the game. Hunt much better in the second stanza made a big difference. We are a very slow side and lack any impact off the bench. Musgrove seemed to hobble for most of his time and Couchman is solid but still raw. Russel is committed as is Burns but really largely ineffective. Desperately need some forwards. Fingers crossed Flanno!

 

[RedV Resurgence]

If that's the standard for Hip Drop tackles, we will end up with 10 on 10 games.

When will a ref be held accountable.

 

[since77]

Russell no try utter disgrace.
Hip drop ridiculous.
Hunt is the luckiest guy alive to be one of the NRL’s top earners. He’s not a halfback’s arsehole.
Another great game Lomax.
Not much else to say.
Geez I hope Flanno updates the Griffin game plan of 5 hitups and a kick.

 

[qld redvee]

Manly were somewhat shell shocked when our lads actually make a game of it . The sea eagles were reduced to a pack of screaming sea gulls when big Russ went over the line , but we cannot have rain falling on DCEvans 300th game so naturally the try was disallowed .

Still as already said by many members our bad habits eventually gave Manly the game .

And dce wingeing about penalties in 1st half (4 all) surprise surprise manly ended up 4 to 1 in second half just to make sure

 

[Phantom V]

That was a try on the first replay on the ground the point of the ball...no need to look furthur

Agreed. Who paints their eyes on ???

 

[RedVDave]

I'll criticise our attack.
I'll criticise Matt Feagai.

But apart from that decent effort, sucks losing but they had a dig.

Oh and I'll criticise the officiating absolutely diabolical.

 

[qld redvee]

Agreed. Who paints their eyes on ???

It was like the old days find a reason ANY reason to disallow a saints try

 

[RedVDave]

Also great press conference by Ryan Carr 100% right and a lot of passion shown.

 

[John moz]

Again the right side the coach needs to make changes and sloan needs to be put back to reserves

 

[2010Dragons]

Imposter Referee Buttler clear instructions to him before the game started.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE REFEREE
“This is DCE 300 game, at all cost make sure manly wins. Disallow a legitimate try, stop the game if manly players need a cuddle or bandage on his boo boo. Send a dragons play off even if it a legitimate fair tackle. Don’t worry you won’t get dropped. This is a bottom eight game no one will care if you just make your own rules. Make sure Manly wins”
COACH CARR ….” This ridiculous!!!!! Needs to be an investigation!!!”

 

[getsmarty]

NRL Press Conference: Round 22 | Dragons

Interim coach Ryan Carr speaks to the media after their Round 22 clash with the Sea Eagles.

www.dragons.com.au