Defence effort best part of Win

[maxta]

Just a thought
The Cows are a very good attacking side and Manly looked on a mission defensively, shutting them down well all night.
Cows had an "off" night, but I feel they are a team who fold when under the pump and Manly, led by solid defence, won the game on the back of tackling hard and often all night and interesting to see had numbers, which slowed the ruck....have not seen this for who knows how long ?
Anyways have the attack to trouble any team and if the defence continues to muscle up, could make it an interesting season

 

[Stewbojevic]

Just a thought
The Cows are a very good attacking side and Manly looked on a mission defensively, shutting them down well all night.
Cows had an "off" night, but I feel they are a team who fold when under the pump and Manly, led by solid defence, won the game on the back of tackling hard and often all night and interesting to see had numbers, which slowed the ruck....have not seen this for who knows how long ?
Anyways have the attack to trouble any team and if the defence continues to muscle up, could make it an interesting season

Agreed. Didn’t get much thrown at us but it’s the most pleasing win of the year for mine because we kept them to single digits.

Would love to see more of it, I think this whole “score more points than them” attitude is wearing thin on most of us.

 

[maxta]

Agreed. Didn’t get much thrown at us but it’s the most pleasing win of the year for mine because we kept them to single digits.

Would love to see more of it, I think this whole “score more points than them” attitude is wearing thin on most of us.

100% fact Stewbojevic, I mean have now witnessed a few seasons where we beat the dud teams by 50 and then come finals...we struggle.
It's like once the intesity rises and the footy comes down to old fashion grit, field position and dogged defence, we kind of get out armwrestled....and i think it's because during the season we play such a "pretty" style of footy.
Sure it's entertaining and to see 90m tries is exciting at the time, this style come finals or bigger games leads to errors gifting field position....allowing opposition ascendency and they keep foot on throat as we diminish in energy which is visible at the time and also unfortunately, the resistance defensively seems to cave in and from there heads drop and it "falls apart" and its usually a 36 - 12 type full time score against us.
Hopefully this game can be used as a springboard moving forward, setting the bar to keeping opposition below 12-16 points and will be in ANY game.

 

[Sea Eagle 4 Life]

Consistency is the key. If we keep the opposition to a maximum of 2 tries, we win nearly every game. Hopefully this will continue against Doesntmatta.

 

[double hoops]

I've said it a bit in different threads. You can see coaching staff are looking to change the playing style for Much of the year. More percentage play, grind out wins with the defence. Even in our losses there has been things to like that's new. We were good in patches against the sharks but cracked. They put plenty on the storm. So they may be a good sign.

Hard to gauge the cows, given new halves they looked terrible in attack, but just may be we do need some credit for the defence.

 

[Thewestisbest]

I've said it a bit in different threads. You can see coaching staff are looking to change the playing style for Much of the year. More percentage play, grind out wins with the defence. Even in our losses there has been things to like that's new. We were good in patches against the sharks but cracked. They put plenty on the storm. So they may be a good sign.

Hard to gauge the cows, given new halves they looked terrible in attack, but just may be we do need some credit for the defence.

Our defence was excellent and the most pleasing part of our win. If we start producing this consistently I will be very happy switching across to the pro Siebold camp.