Pre-Game Chooks V Manly [Finals Week 2, 2024]

[HoldenV8]

Tricky one as I think the attack with Saab on the right wing brings in attacking kicks and early shift to utilise his speed.

Thought Ciraldo kicking to Hoppa we didn’t get the best out of Talua’s strong ball running on kick returns to get the set of six off with good momentum.

If all available Saab should play, who misses out would be extremely unfortunate.

As good as Hoppa has been, I think the fact that the Dogs manhandled him a lot yesterday (something Robinson is sure to have noted) might see him the one dropped to the bench should Saab be available.

 

[madmax]

Question:

If Jason Saab is available this week (they did say Week 2) ... does he get selected straight back onto the wing?? And if yes, who drops to at least the bench??

If Saab is fit & selected then I think Lehi will be 14 with Brbo 18th man. Croker has been playing 80 minutes & Lawton can always cover for him. Aloiai, Brown & Bully complete the bench.
Trbo
Saab
Garrick
Koula
Talau
Brooks
DCE
Paseka
Croker
Lodge
Olakau’atu
Lawton
Jrbo
Res: Lehi, Aloiai, Bully, Brown.
I think this is our strongest team??

Question:

If Jason Saab is available this week (they did say Week 2) ... does he get selected straight back onto the wing?? And if yes, who drops to at least the bench??

 

[HoldenV8]

Aloiai, Brown & Bully complete the bench.

Great ... 20 or so minutes either side of half time where our go forward up the middle stops dead and our defence up the middle turns to melted butter.

 

[madmax]

Great ... 20 or so minutes either side of half time where our go forward up the middle stops dead and our defence up the middle turns to melted butter.

What?

 

[Bomb Voyage]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

 

[Ashton Davis]

Does anyone know how the presale works for having an nrl.com account?

 

[Phobia]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

I think it's about right personally. We're not drowned with dribble on here.

 

[broadbeachm]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

I had 1 look in the kennel and every second word was f..K. I prefer quality .

 

[TJ55]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

That’s why I’ve come over and hanging around like a bad smell now 🤣🤣

 

[krusty]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

Just had a look at the kennel on your recommendation. I reckon I lost 10 IQ points in 2 minutes reading that dribble. Never again.

 

[TJ55]

Just had a look at the kennel on your recommendation. I reckon I lost 10 IQ points in 2 minutes reading that dribble. Never again.

Love them or hate them the respect is always there 🤝

 

[Wombat Junior]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

I got an award for making so many comments yesterday, I thought Dan or someone might of blocked me from the site for too many comments or was waiting for someone to tell me the shut the f up

 

[Wombat Junior]

I ended up having to come on here because I saw rumours from dogs fans of course that the nrl were looking at the DCE scrum play try or something, trying to take it off us or some bull****, which it was bull****. The comments are filled with manly shouldn't have scored from that forward pass, DCE should have got 10 for touching curran, the referee is the man of the match etc like blah blah blah, keep sooking.

 

[eaglebuzz]

our forum is so dead compared to some other teams like the dogs.. wish we had more ppl posting

I'd hate for our forum to be that active, I already have one poster strategically muted and skim 90% of posts.

 

[TJ55]

I ended up having to come on here because I saw rumours from dogs fans of course that the nrl were looking at the DCE scrum play try or something, trying to take it off us or some bull*, which it was bull*. The comments are filled with manly shouldn't have scored from that forward pass, DCE should have got 10 for touching curran, the referee is the man of the match etc like blah blah blah, keep sooking.

That sooking happens in every club to be fair

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

The Kennel is pretty full on , I’m pleased we are pretty respectful on here , well at least most of the time.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

That sooking happens in every club to be fair

It gets epic on here when we loose , so you’re correct on that.

 

[Wombat Junior]

That sooking happens in every club to be fair

yeah fair enough

 

[Dion Johnson]

I ended up having to come on here because I saw rumours from dogs fans of course that the nrl were looking at the DCE scrum play try or something, trying to take it off us or some bull*, which it was bull*. The comments are filled with manly shouldn't have scored from that forward pass, DCE should have got 10 for touching curran, the referee is the man of the match etc like blah blah blah, keep sooking.

This scrum was the one.

DCE’s neck is clearly in the scrum… the red line on a still shot never lies when it comes to forward passes, the same applies here…

DCE was built for this very moment… all those neck stretches finally paid off.

 

[HoldenV8]

What?

When Aloiai, Bullemor and Brown were on against the Dogs our go forward virtually stopped. At times we even struggled to get off our line and there were even sets where the first 3 or 4 hit ups after a kick were done by the backs with no forwards even in the picture.

I'll actually concede that our middle defence wasn't as bad as I made out. We did manage to hold on and keep it close enough for the comeback. Though it wasn't until Jake, Paseka and Lodge came back on that we started to get on top.

I wonder if anyone noticed that Jake actually spent time on the bench during the game?