Vs Manly rd 13

[Philip_Smith007]

Hard to pick, both teams desimated.
Manly a tougher culture will probably shine through.

 

[Blair]

Cold, wet weather footy. Unfortunately, the Warriors haven't been in Auckland to prepare!

 

[Blair]

Cherry-Evans will win it for them. He usually does.

 

[Blair]

Two bottom-eight sides, let's not forget that.

 

[Blair]

Bugger, we've got Perenara reffing.

 

[Blair]

Herbert slides in off a kick. We had 14 tackles in a row. Great pressure put on, off the back of an error from Manly's first set from match kick-off.

4-0, Kodi misses conversion.

 

[Blair]

A blitzkrieg, 16-nil. Both Katoa and Jennings in!

All off the back of Manly errors, but credit to us, we're completing our sets in the wet and capitilising with points.

 

[Blair]

Here come Manly.

Jake held up on line by Jazz, Lawton in bin though, for pro foul.

 

[Blair]

Manly in. Evans and Jake, offloading, second-phase play, their winger's in.

16-6.

 

[Blair]

Suli in, off Evans pass. Manly have the numerical advantage with Lawton still in bin.

We made mistskes, both Roger and Herbert knocked-on.

16-10.

 

[Blair]

13 v 13, Lawton back on.

 

[Benek]

That was a butter-soft try to give away. Thank god the sun bin is over.

 

[Blair]

I can't see both Evans and Hasler letting us win this. They're too professional, too clinical.

 

[vvvrulz]

Manly on the attack after Hiku spills it.

 

[Blair]

Heavy rain falling. It won't stop for a while.

Manly are piling on the pressure, and we're cracking.

A half of two quarters! We won the first, them the second.

 

[Blair]

Herbert in!

Crucial play, Hiku beat Vuna and set up his winger.

20-10. Half-time.

 

[Blair]

A very, very rare Warriors moment there. We won the last sixty seconds of the first half.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Hiku Hiku Hiku.

Massive enigma, great centre when he is on, but defensive lapses and errors happen too often.

But is the only centre we have who can genuinely create tries.

Wtf to do with him,

 

[Blair]

We lead most of the stats, including post-contact metres.

 

[SmashEmBro]

We played great the first 20 minutes, then with Lawton in the bin looked very fragile. Despite that we still looked okay on defence one Lawton came back.

I dunno, looks like the ambush is on. We're cracking them on the edges, keep grinding up the middle and let those players on the edge get a bit of space. Jeeze how nice would it be for us to crack 40 here.

Although I admit I'm dreaming and would be very very happy with a 1 point win