1. With Turbo & Staggs out injured, who would you put at centre ahead of Wighton atm?
2. These selections aren't based on SOO, they are based on the full 2020 season, as they are every year. Cleary was easily the form halfback all year, and cordner is the incumbent captain.
No real big...
Have seen this done unfortunately a few times in the dying moments of a game, or if the attacking team was a player down for example, so that they could re-set their line, get a breather, run the clock down, and avoid any potential ricochets etc
Agree with 1.
Unfortunately if you take away 2. all playmakers will be happy to tactically kick dead again when leading and we saw how ridiculous this got
Massive win.
Foran instead of a useless Levi
Aloiai instead of a lumbering & uninspiring AFB (new rule-change)
Davey instead of a slow Waddell
Saab & Tuipulotu instead of Elliot & Hopoate
(5 wins) vs
Thommo the only real loss
(1 loss) - but after his unfortunate accident in the off-season, he...
Interesting to note the following figures:
Tedesco 1.1Mil
Cordner 780K
Crighton 750K
JWH 700K
Manu 700K
Keary 700K
Taukeiaho 680K
Radley 500K
So that's 5.91Mil paid to 8 players, leaving 3.59 Mil for the remaining 22 players. This equates to 163K (HALF the NRL average) salary to over...
Levi unfortunately doesn't have the instinct needed to know when, where, and how to take advantages of opposition weaknesses. You can't teach this stuff. Fainu is also considerably stronger and doesn't get ragdolled and pummelled at first contact
Very telling article on nrl.com that reveals damning statistics on our team's 2020 performance:
Pre-Contact metres/run: Manly ranked second worst to the Dogs (significantly behind even the middle-ranked teams)
This is quite alarming, as it shows a problem that is evident with all our players'...
We still need a replacement for Thompson - a hard working, tough as nails tackling machine. We have Gauc for x-factor, particularly in attack, but Garner will do wonders for our backrow defensively. He's miles better than Gosiewski, Davey, and Parker
I think you are basing your entire opinion of Siro on his 2020 season. Over a much longer period, he has shown excellent line running (Again, Suli and Garrick being "starved of the ball", didn't have much to do with Siro, but more to do with manly's gameplan I.e. our playmaker did not want the...
No way Garner is better in attack. Absolutely not. Having said that, Garner has by far the better tackling technique, and is defensively much stronger. We need both players
The Jurbo role of course... but in the same way gifty had a great combination with killer, and later, dce, so too siro should focus on the right (alternating in and out with chez). This should allow us to have a gun 'edge' forward to be used as a block-busting hole runner - not a ball-player...
No, he chose not to/was told not to. He didn't suddenly lose the ability to pass a ball. If he wears the 13 , it will allow Guac/Garner to run lines off Chez instead.
