Skram
Juniors
- Messages
- 489
Nah. Manu's are "large, somewhat uncoordinated men find it difficult to catch rolling grubbers sometimes" issues. You take it or you leave it. I'm surprised he hasn't got more praise in recent weeks for how absolutely barnstorming his carries have been. I think the big change is not Manu but in people only seeing the negative because they have almost become blind to the positive.
Agreed completely, he absolutely skittled a few of the Tigers forwards on his runs, smashed Moltzen and Ryan in defence and caught some difficult kicks.
The error off the grubber was lazy in that he should have dived on it like he had done for a previous kick, he didn't and we paid the price. The error on the high ball near the end was unfortunate, he's been catching a very high percentage of the cross field kicks that come his way these days and he muffed that one at the wrong time, it happens. It was made a lot worse by the fact that it was followed by some sh*t defence by Maloney (who slipped on what was a horrible playing surface) and Hurrell on the back of the scrum play.
Even with the two errors he had a direct hand in creating two tries through his work in the air and, as always, got a lot of our sets off to a great start. The thought of dropping him for that game and the comparisons to Inu vs the Storm are absurd.