Manly v Rorters - Round 19, 2018 Pre-Game

[Bearfax]

Spot on.

Focus the attacking play on a bloke playing his second game in the halves, rather than an Origin and a
Aust rep half.

Barrett picks Wright (which many have been calling for for weeks).

Now they have it, lets let the bloke run the team after 2 games.

The hits just keep on coming.

Your cynicism would be more justified if Manly was winning games and like Thurston of old, , DCE was the go to man. That may be so in many ways but one of the problems with Manly is predictability. In a game just recently they had T. Wright getting cold on one side of the field, while continuously attacking to the left. It was so predictable even I could see players waiting to drag Kelly over the side line. It was bleeding obvious, yet they kept doing it. Two things of importance here. First Manly needs to play both sides of the field and be less predictable. Where's the Nappa/Beaver like plays etc. Secondly how is T. Wright going to show his wares if the ball isn't coming to him with a bit of room to move. Are we so scared by the unavailability of Walker, that the team isn't willing to try to be more creative and use the full field in attack.

 

[Bearfax]

You don’t think after this long out maybe Jorge needed a run in reserves first??

That would be a first for Barrett. With the injury toll as it is he shoots players straight back into firsts as soon as they can crawl again

 

[davohan123]

After the season we are having most certainly 2V's

 

[TimmyQ]

Roosters 48 def Manly 2

(Reverse psychology) FU NRL

lol

 

[HoldenV8]

Your cynicism would be more justified if Manly was winning games and like Thurston of old, , DCE was the go to man. That may be so in many ways but one of the problems with Manly is predictability. In a game just recently they had T. Wright getting cold on one side of the field, while continuously attacking to the left. It was so predictable even I could see players waiting to drag Kelly over the side line. It was bleeding obvious, yet they kept doing it. Two things of importance here. First Manly needs to play both sides of the field and be less predictable. Where's the Nappa/Beaver like plays etc. Secondly how is T. Wright going to show his wares if the ball isn't coming to him with a bit of room to move. Are we so scared by the unavailability of Walker, that the team isn't willing to try to be more creative and use the full field in attack.

Without Walks in the side, most of our attack has gone to the left. When he's there the ball does go right, pardon the pun.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Golden Eagles in attendance today so the motivation should be there ( you’d hope).

 

[davohan123]

 

[HoldenV8]

One of those blokes is my all-time favourite Sea Eagle.

Sir Cliffy, the Genius of Brookvale.

 

[Ryan]

I cannot fathom or comprehend how Matt Wright in any way could be knowingly selected over Taufua?

01. Tom Trbojevic
02. Jorge Taufua
03. Brian Kelly
04. Tom Wright
05. Moses Suli
06. Trent Hodkinson
07. Daly Cherry-Evans

should be our backline. No Wright / Parker.

Then when Walker gets back, Wright goes to 5/8, Hodko back to 14.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Sipley is playing, must be Tanginoa that's dropped off the bench

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Sipley is playing, must be Tanginoa that's dropped off the bench

Yep, Tanginoa out, Sipley in

 

[Chip and Chase]

Lane to bench, Frankenstein to start, Tangles out, Sipley in.

 

[HoldenV8]

Tom cant play right side all our attack is left side. His runs out of dummy half while in the opposition Red Zone stifles our attack

And yet in Origin he was on the right wing and although he was more roving in attack than just staying out wide.....he was arguably the player of the series.

I just think he needs to start running straighter. Crabbing sideways like he tends to often leaves Kelly no room if he gets the ball.

 

[Ryan]

Wow, quite a lot of the team started in Jersey Flegg or NSW Cup to start the year

01.
02. NSW Cup
03.
04. Jersey Flegg
05. NSW Cup
06. NSW Cup
07.
08.
09. NSW Cup
10.
11.
12. NSW Cup
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14.
15.
16. NSW Cup
17. NSW Cup

Worst part? Our NSW Cup team is pretty ordinary.

 

[Clay]

Anyone know why Taginoa was dropped?

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Anyone know why Taginoa was dropped?

Gastro or similar ( heard this elsewhere earlier today).