Round 26 V Manly

[umina panther]

The only positive in not losing by 38...which i got laughed at as impossible is maybe seeing Moylan 1 last time

 

[OldPanther]

Also Wallace needs to retire. I love him as a player but it's time. We look so much better with Katoa at 9 and we have Egan coming through.

 

[bebo]

Totally agree he has completely screwed this bloke

JFH and Katoa had really good games. Peachey and Mansour solid and I thought Cartwright looked a bit better than he has lately. Cleary tried hard without help or space. Everyone else was pretty disgraceful.

Think the pressure of the last 3 months definitely has worn them down so I couldn't blame the players too much. You can't play basically sudden death 15 weeks in a row and expect to be fresh at the end.

I'll finally jump on. Time to sack Griffin. In saying that if we get Manly again next week I'd be quietly confident of reversing the result. We won't be belted out of the game in the first 5 minutes again and Moylan would be a massive boost. Against the Sharks though and we are done.

Cleary for mine gets caught too many times with the ball but that comes with inexperience, Wallace is shit , CHN has been ordinary of late, Tamou ?

 

[TheFrog]

Moylan will play next weekend. How he'll play remains to be seen.

 

[pantherz9103]

For only the 13th time in 51 seasons, we've reached the finals.

It's the first time since 2003-2004 we've made the finals two years in a row.

Of course the club has to aim higher than this, but it is a little perspective about our club and the mediocrity they've delivered over the years, at least now they are showing a higher level while still underachieving...

 

[umina panther]

Moylan will play next weekend. How he'll play remains to be seen.

A good win with him staring could save our club

 

[chrisD]

If it is Moylan v Griffin and the non dickhead ever professional players like Josh, Wallace, Merrin, DWZ, Yeo, Whare, RCG, Cleary are with Griffin then we have no choice but to keep Griffin on, or they're all pissed and everything turns toxic.

 

[TheFrog]

Parker said talking to Moylan he doesn't know if Moylan will be playing next week.

Who is Parker? Where is Phil Gould in all of this? There are far too many nuffies flapping their gums uselessly about this.

 

[chrisD]

Who is Parker? Where is Phil Gould in all of this? There are far too many nuffies flapping their gums uselessly about this.

Corey Parker said this, after talking to Moylan before the game. And the way he said it was like he was holding back from just outright saying he's not going to be playing.

 

[Munky]

Why did it take so long to shuffle the backline?

Whare has never been a good full back and Blake was being carved up at centre.

 

[billypilgrimnz]

Why did it take so long to shuffle the backline?

Whare has never been a good full back and Blake was being carved up at centre.

Why did Whare even start there?

 

[Black Magik]

Why did it take so long to shuffle the backline?

Whare has never been a good full back and Blake was being carved up at centre.

I was hoping we started with that line up. Our right side was terrible today.

 

[martielang]

What's happened with Blake the last two weeks? Arguably our most consistent player over the last 12 months yet all of a sudden looks lost at sea.

CNH seems to fallen badly off the pace as well.

 

[TheFrog]

Why did Whare even start there?

Not sure Whare at fullback was our biggest problem out there tonight.

 

[umina panther]

Not sure Whare at fullback was our biggest problem out there tonight.

The team not trying with the Moylan news was the issue. They didn't give a f**k

 

[TheEroticGamer]

Hell yeah, we only lost by 16.We're in the finals.

Ambush coming.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Also Wallace needs to retire. I love him as a player but it's time. We look so much better with Katoa at 9 and we have Egan coming through.

It's not even close.

He's the player we played better without in the 7 game winning streak.

Think he missed 4-5 of those?

 

[greynurse]

Manly still stewing from the 1985 play-off for 5th place.lol!

And 2002 when we smashed them and they missed the eight and we had no chance of making the finals. Kick started our 2003 premiership in my mind.

 

[cain3y]

My old mans not happy, been supporting this rubbish since 1967. I was dumb founded when whare actually started at 1, what the? Wallace should never have played the last two weeks. How can you tackle with a broken hand, stupidity. We played with such attacking flare last year now it is gone. Merrin and Tamou should f off back to where they came from because clearly they can't lay a platform for our backs to work off. Waste of cap space, pussy forwards. If they put in such a shit performance next week who ever we play will put 50 on us. Hope I'm wrong. End rant.

 

[GongPanther]

Cleary for mine gets caught too many times with the ball but that comes with inexperience, Wallace is shit , CHN has been ordinary of late, Tamou ?

Inexperience has been our main down fall this season as shown in some games.When the more seasoned teams with hard nosed players put the pressure on,it can be overwhealming. We simply don't have that battle hardness in spades.

And I'll throw in phsycological fatigue. Talent with inexperience will get you so far. We have young players that are nowhere used to the week in,week out grind of 1st grade NRL.

As far as Griffin is concerned,he has what he needs.It simply has to come together.It wasn't going to be this year.We all fell for the fact that it would,but it was a fallacy.

Still,we can have a good go at it next week.