Stewart could pick up a thing or two about staying in shape from Watmough, the guy trains his heart out and gives it all on the pitch. Gifty still looks like he's on holiday.
Looks like he is still carrying injury. Doubt he is on full training. Probably won't see him near peak fitness until after the second bye imo. Use this 2 weeks to get the niggles sorted and the next bye period to get hard fit.
Back on Watmough, he is a little beast. I liked it how before the season started he casually mentioned that he'd be having "a local"ie painkiller, before every game this year. That is pretty tough.
And I like it how whenever something happens he is right there, as evidenced last night when Tilse went postal. There is a good photo from a few weeks ago when Matai levelled George Burgess. All the players are running in for a stink and Watmough is in the middle of them all, sitting on the ground holding the ball lol. He was already there.
Took me a while to warm to him because I don't follow Manly and he just niggles and merkins his way around the field all day. But he is just a player that you love to have on your team and the opposition hate. Runs over 100m every week through the ruck, plays 70-80 minutes, tackles blokes 15kg above his weight, and still finds time to get in the middle of every stink. And been doing it for 250 games at all levels. One club man to boot.
