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Glenneel

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Both players only turn 30 next year so it's a bit early to talk about regression.
Pou you might talk stats on both players to disprove but visually they have regressed, particularly Mannah. Plays little game time these days, prob around 30-35 mins and has little impact in his second stint. Can we really carry a player who normally plays 10-15 mins in second half without consciously registering in the mind? He is virtually invisible during his second stint.
 
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Poupou Escobar

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Except when against us Pou. How many games were the opposition perfect, or almost, during a half yet we were constantly penalised.
Yeah it was f**ken bullshit. I normally think the refs aren't a significant factor but we definitely faced a few perfect (or near so) opponents in the second half when we had an unexpected lead. The final in Melbourne was another example. I'm well proud of them for that game but at full time I was so pissed off I felt sick.
Now I might watch games thru rose coloured glasses when watching Parra but in many of those lop sided counts I couldn't discern any difference between the teams.

Just on Storm how many times in gf did their players, particularly Smith, go to sleep on tackled player and also tackle receiver of ball just as it cleared the ruck. There is no way they were onside!
I reckon some teams definitely get more leeway from the refs.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Pou you might talk stats on both players to disprove but visually they have regressed, particularly Mannah. Plays little game time these days, prob around 30-35 mins and has little impact in his second stint. Can we really carry a player who normally plays 10-15 mins in second half without consciously registering in the mind? He is virtually invisible during his second stint.
He's invisible because he is doing other merkins' tackling for them. Do you ever hear coaches talking about the players who do the one percenters? The ones that fans don't notice but their team mates love playing with? That's Mannah. As for his reduced minutes, Brown's 80 minutes have something to do with that. Reduced minutes also allow Mannah to to do more per minute, then get swapped out with another worker like Alvaro or Moeroa.
 

T.S Quint

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Pou you might talk stats on both players to disprove but visually they have regressed, particularly Mannah. Plays little game time these days, prob around 30-35 mins and has little impact in his second stint. Can we really carry a player who normally plays 10-15 mins in second half without consciously registering in the mind? He is virtually invisible during his second stint.

If you're not noticing him, it means he's not missing any tackles.
 
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