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Vs Manly Rd 5

Big Marn

Bench
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im watching kearneyball again and hes not even there anymore. wtf.
Kodi - gone. hes a one trick pony and hes shite.
 

Tongue

Juniors
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St George next. We won’t get up against them. They’re starting to roll.
So Fus and Niko out.
Perham and Turner in.
 
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Bludger of a game to watch, fitting that the kick to win was a bit of a bludger too but wouldn’t want anyone else in the league taking a pressure droppie

Don’t want to rub anything in, but I genuinely felt we went better across the 80mins, but still weren’t going to get it done

Warriors forum so I’ll offer what I saw from the Warriors. Has the confirmation of a bubble got their minds wandering elsewhere ?

I’ll go easy on the rookie, so will focus on Nikorima, absolutely disgraceful. Zero game management or awareness at all, huge wind at the back, where were the kicks to the corner that we saw the entire first half from Manly ? Can’t be summed up better than the 2 plays after the long break for Egan’s injury. 1 out hit up then an abomination of a last play. While I mention Egan, he isn’t up to much either, takes some average options
Compete lack of speed in your backline too, the Saab try shows Maumolo up and Fus has gone from athletic to a draughthorse these days. While on them, what the hell was that effort from Maumalo under the bomb when he didn’t even attempt to catch it, just deliberately swatted it forward



I might be going a bit hard there coz both teams were hammered by injuries, but it was a pretty uninspiring game, watch the first 10 of Penrith v Canberra and it feels like it’s on fast forward
 

Diesel

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Well summed up Beaver. Just watching Pennies v Raiders and these teams are just another level.
 

SmashEmBro

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Maumalo had some patches of solid form 2018-19 but overall I think I’ve reverted to my original opinion....he just really isn’t any good
Yip I was a big anti Maumalo too, outside his good year where Hiku fed him some quality ball, he does f**k all. Looks clueless and he makes almost no post contact meters, seems to get driven backwards or stopped all the time
 

Tongue

Juniors
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Watching Coach Brown in the press conference, while he didn’t name anyone, reading between the lines, you’d think Niko will be gone.
 

Big Marn

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Watching Coach Brown in the press conference, while he didn’t name anyone, reading between the lines, you’d think Niko will be gone.
Good. If he doesnt make any changes next week, hes as gutless as Kearney was.
 

SmashEmBro

Juniors
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Katoa with another subpar performance. Has failed to make more than 50m 3 out of 5 games this year, and no tackle breaks.

Just no impact at all.

With Bunty coming back next week, I’d rather have Murchie stay in, Tohu back to the back row, and Bunty back in the team and Tom Ale keep his spot, he looked good in his limited minutes
 

waipiro

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Fus actually improved today didn’t he?

Yeah he was a lot better I think. They never ran an attacking play where he was passed the ball?

With the loss of AFB, Bunty and to a lesser extent JTB I really thought we may have tried to play thias game in a more expansive manner rather than still trying to overpower the big manly pack.
An out of form opposition would have been the perfect opportunity!
 

waipiro

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To me Katoa looks like he's lost quite a bit of weight since last year (I could be wrong).

Yeah bit strange if he has trimmed down because he is playing a lot less minutes this year so seems to defeat the purpose of trimming down.
Doesn't seem to be running the same attacking lines into holes this year?
 

Fufu Andronez

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This team can only afford to have 1 of Maumalo or Fus on the wing. Pick one and be done with it and put Berry or speed on the other.

Egan cannot tackle. I don't know if his shoulder is still f**ked but he always let's the attacker get on the front foot.

Nikorima and o'sullivan are not a good combo. O'sullivan runs around like a headless chook sometimes and Kodi doesn't run at all.

I hope the recruitment team is working hard, we are very far from the finished product.

With all the talent in NZ, how we have the backline that we have is remarkable.

Real fork in the road moment here for the season. Brown is no mug and knows this job is the last roll of the dice for his coaching career, I hope he makes changes and doesn't let mediocrity become the norm.
 
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Light crowd.

Solid 60m for Warriors first set and a bomb contested by RTS.

34m by Manly.


Montoya not aware of holding ball and stripped on Manly 40m.


Manly knock on followed by a set restart for Warriors early in set.


O'Syllivam throws a lob pass on the last to no one and it is intercepted.


Foran kicks for 40/20 attempt turns inland.


Manly earn a restart for to long in tackle.


J Treb knocks on near the line after Foran makes a break off an offload.


Sloppy end to set, Harris drops it out, Jazz follows suit, then Nikorima has Katoa run a block in him and penalised.


Jazz puts a solid shot in defence.


Set restart on Manlys 30m, assume inside the 10m.

Jazz poor pass to RTS hits ground and it's knocked on. Knocking on their try line, opportunity missed.


Manly trying to offload in their 20m and Katoa regathers.


WTF, RTS takes a run from dummy half om the last into marker for nothing.


Ken puts a bomb down backwards luckly.


20mins of pretty poor football.


Another 40/20 attempt by Manly on the 3rd tackle. RTS pinned inside 10m

Fus makes a mistake in play the ball on our 20m.


J Treb dives for line and loses ball again as it digs into dirt. RTS in tackle saving it.


4 errors each.


Tackle restart for Warriors.


Fus dies with the ball on last out wide 10m out. Does anyone know how to get on the outside shoulder?


Manly gets 6 more.


Ken knocks Manly bomb out under pressure.


Manly over line again pushing, Jazz hand underneath goes up no try, ball lost by Manly. All our possessions and they have hand more chances.


Evans knocks on a short pass from Nikorima who created a gap for him.


Manly scorw off a scrum kick and Manly winger Saab runs down Ken and score. Ballys play that played off. RTS not in picture.


0-6


Finally Murchie makes a break as RYS gets centre interested and turning in.

Passes to Ken and gets knocked down by Sabb and lucky Ken catches it and scores.


6-6


Montoya knocks on a bat back by Fus off a bomb. Looked close to tackled before he had the ball.


Ken takes ball dead under pressure.


Fus nails Walker, which had to happen or overlap and Walker didn't see it coming and ball flys out.


RTS offload to no one and picked up by Kapow, but manly lose it in next tackle, blowing up and marched 10m


Nikorima long pass to Ken knocked on 20m out FMD, Reynolds SOS!


Foran loses ball under MM tackle on their 40m.


Nikorima kick taken dead with 25sec left.

8sec left, Evan puts down a offload.


Brown might have to explain Killer mode not Kitten mode.

63% completion.

Some pretty average football out there.

A top 8 team would have 30-40 points on us.

Will short turn around hurt at back end?


Manly lose ball on 2nd tackle on their 30m


Egan cut open by a Manly hand on face, diving for line, check him for a blade!

Follows by poor end to set again caught on last. Anyone organising out there?


Montoya nails Saab going across field like a giraffe!


O'Sullivan finds a gap in the line, forward sliding out falling for dummy and he scores next to post.


12-6


Manly kickoff high and Montoya nailed by Kapow providing cover for RTS who gathers it in.


O'Sullivan bomb touched by Saab and end up in go and forced dead.


Average set, saved by grubber knocked dead by Manly for another set.


O'Sullivan grubber terrible but DCE picks it up and knocks it on.


Set restart off scrum, and a terrible flat set inside their 20m!!!

Grubber on end by Egan doesn't go 5m and regathered by Manly. 3 sets for nothing. Reynolds SOS


RTS pulls down Walkers pants then pulls them up, Walker stayed down. Looks upper hammy or glute.


Manly tackle restart holding in tackle.

RTS cleans up a grubber in goal when Montoya down in background.


So challenge has to be taken within 15 sec? And before ball played? Neither happened there, then to overturn what didn't look obvious. FMD bunker and refs.


Nikorima loses easiest of ball looking up before it in his hands, Manly scores.

All off back of challenge that should not have been!!!!


12-12


Manly knocks ball in tackle by tackler forcing it out, Manly challenging and you guessed it Bunker turns it against us.


DCE field goal coming soon.


Manly incorrect play the ball 5m inside our half.

Manly lose the ball again, challenged again, but lost it this time.


Murchie drops the late offload Nikorima.

How about work for the field goal you fools.


Manly knock on the bomb.


This game golden point would be torture!


O'Sullivan with a shit attempted field goal.

Giving Manly 7 tackles.


Saab knocks it on DCE bomb, not sure why 1 point wasn't attempted by him.


RTS dances around the defense line but no one with him if he created a gap.

We can't even set for a field goal.


Murchie knocks on half way.

Challenged, and failed.


DCE saves us golden point, behind a wall.

12-13


We didn't deserve to win, but not sure Manly didn't either.
 
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