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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.
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.
I reckon some teams definitely get more leeway from the refs.
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.
