Some observations from the game:
Peachey - Brilliant one minute and then dumb stuff the next (like getting dragged into touch on tackle 1). Too inconsistent for mine to be talked about in the revered tones that he is. However, he did make 29 tackles so he at least worked hard.
Moylan - His passing is just brilliant to watch and so effective. But his kick returns are very average and the reason he will never be an upper echelon fullback. If he can develop a kicking game, he could be a rep class 5/8th though. He sees more space and gaps in defence in a game than Luke Walsh does in an entire season. Lovely to watch.
DZW - makes mistakes because he is still learning, but he has a lot of ticker and doesn't let people push him around. I love the way he fights back even if he cost us penalties sometimes. If only our forwards had as much aggro.
Segyaro - Why has he stopped running from dummy half? I kept expecting him to run and he just seemed to be playing within himself.
The forwards - I am not singling out a forward because they were all very poor. Jeremy Latimore almost gets a pass with 80m and 19 tackles, but really, they were powder puffs. Plum still isn't match fit yet and their were glimmers of his old self with a few solid hits, but he made only 68m. Our forwards are soft and need a talking to by somebody like MG or Peter Kelly. Toughen up princesses!
Having said all that, the referees allowed both sides to lay all over each other. There was one tackle on DZW were the Manly player was on top so long I thought he was unconscious. Metres were hard to come by for both teams leading to a tough arm wrestle and a number of injuries.
We were at least enthusiastic in defence and the new halves showed that they may be able to deliver given enough time together.
