Age is a factor but the answer lies elsewhere

[Townsville Eagle]

Aging roster will be solved shotly as we are losing Kite and others will follow. New blood will come in. i believe it is simply losing King and Joe that has left a big hole up front which we were not ready for. Add to that, that Fa'aoso and Stewart have been out for considerable periods and you have a huge chunk of stars out of a team. Lets stop carrying on and when we get Fa'aoso back we will have 2 of the 4 returned to the field and that will be a big plus. We have seen potential stars in the making in Symonds, Hiku and Lawrence so all is good for the future. Chill out guys.

 

[mbe]

I agree Townsville Eagle. If Souths were to lose Inglis and 3 of their forwards for the next 6 or 7 weeks they would struggle too.In fact if any club lost 4 players of the calibre of our 4 they would find extremely difficult to play at the same level as before.Our playing group have tried very hard the last few weeks but bad reffs decisions and sometimes just plain bad luck have hampered our games lately .I'm sure that in the next few weeks when we get Snake and Richie back our team will play more the type of football we are used to seeing Manly play. GO MANLY.