Game Day: Manly v Storm [Round 24, 2019]

[Captain Moondog]

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, ...

Never surrender Manly

Time to crank up the old spitfire.....

 

[Oracle]

Oh the possibilities.........
3rd on the ladder after regular season gets done !

 

[Budgie]

Sea Eagles working to fix their questionable record in night matches
Dean Ritchie, The Daily Telegraph
August 29, 2019

They are are the Sea Eagles who can’t fly at night.

On the eve of Saturday evening’s Battle of Brookvale II, The Daily Telegraph can reveal Manly’s concerning night plight which was described by a leading Australian sports psychologist as “unusual”.

Over the past five years, Manly have won just 27 of 72 night games. That’s a modest success rate of 37.5 per cent.

Conversely, the Sea Eagles have won 27 from 47 day matches – a winning strike rate of almost 60 per cent.

And with sunset due at 5.33pm Saturday - right on kick-off - Manly face another match under flood lights.

This year, Manly have just five wins from 11 games contested in the evening. Their horrible night record stretches back to 2016 – five wins from 19 games – and 2015 – six wins from 18 games.

In that time, Manly have lost night matches at Lottoland, Albury, Campbelltown, Canberra, Leichhardt, Auckland, Parramatta, Penrith, Robina, Shark Park, Suncorp, Townsville and Wollongong.

Friday evening match against Melbourne will be another test to see whether Sea Eagles can take flight at night.


“The only thing I can think of is that the routines would be different,” said doctor Phil Jauncey, “When a team is playing during the day time, players don’t have a lot of time to worry about anything.

“I know being with teams at night, you have the captain’s run and then you have all that afternoon and evening off and then all the next day. It seems to take forever for kick-off.

“It’s almost a day and a half before you play. They are really just killing time. When you have an afternoon game, it’s only one day.

“My guess – and it is purely a guess because it is unusual - is that the players aren’t filling in their afternoon time well. Maybe they are filling it in using up too much mental energy, just thinking.

“If you have worries then you have more time to worry about what could go wrong.”

Manly players this week spoke about the significant challenge Melbourne will be present at Brookvale Oval.

Showing Manly’s simple yet effective approach to footy this season, centre Brendan Elliot said: “We’re just trying to put in a good performance each week, no matter who the team is in front of us.

“Leading into the finals, at the back-end of the season, we want to play well. There is definitely something building here.

“With Des (Hasler, coach) coming back to the club, I feel he has brought so much passion and so much belief. With this being my first year here, I feel there is really something awesome building here.”

Sea Eagles forward Curtis Sironen’s return from injury offsets the loss of Joel Thompson, out for four-to-six weeks with a broken arm.

“I was probably touch and go last week but I was being pretty cautious at this time of the year,” Sironen said. “I’ve been champing at the bit watching, I’m feeling good, ready to go.”

Provided the weather is kind, Manly is hoping for a crowd of around 15,000 to 16,000 for the big game.

Article somehow misses the fact that we beat Melbourne IN MELBOURNE AT NIGHT!!!!!

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

In (yet) another anti manly article by Paul Kent he adds this interesting line towards the bottom of his dribble:
The NRL’s concern this summer has to be the improvement in Manly.
The Sea Eagles went from 15th to fifth over a hot summer with not a single recruit to the roster worth bragging about.
They figured out how to defend, though.

Why would that be a concern to the nrl?

Is he implying Manly is doing something illegal????

 

[HappilyManly]

Is he implying Manly is doing something illegal????

Turdy has deemed defeating the Scumos as such

 

[The Wheel]

Is he implying Manly is doing something illegal????

Strange why would it be a concern to the NRL - unless it wasn’t written into Ch 9 and Turds script for 2019?

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Manly declare no team in the NRL ahead of blockbuster showdown with Melbourne
Regular frontrunners at the top of the ladder together for five seasons between 2007 and 2012, Manly’s new breed are already starting to show the characteristic of the Sea Eagles of old.

Nice, but a true investigative journalist would have dug deeper and discovered we were fairly close to the top in 2013 and 2014 too!

 

[HappilyManly]

Nice, but a true investigative journalist would have dug deeper and discovered we were fairly close to the top in 2013 and 2014 too!

And 2017

Manly's success is everyone else' worst nightmare

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Strange why would it be a concern to the NRL - unless it wasn’t written into Ch 9 and Turds script for 2019?

Mmmmmm

We’ve always thought there might be a “ script” but this might have confirmed it!

 

[ellakasmar]

Blue skies are breaking on the Northern Beaches!!!

So pumped to get to Brookie tonight

 

[Woodsie]

Poor Paul Parra Poopy Pants Kent

Have you copyrighted this phrase ... or can we all use it? ......

 

[Go manly]

Pretty sure most of our penalties were for offside, 1 for obstruction by Joel , and 1 was for kicking out on the full from the restart

Manly must be the Jedi Masters of implicit wrestling

Klein's HT Penalty Stats

PENALTY - DANGEROUS TACKLE
Daly Cherry-Evans

PENALTY - CROWDING
Addin Fonua-Blake

PENALTY - SCRUM INFRINGEMENT
Apisai Koroisau

PENALTY - OFFSIDE INSIDE 10M
Addin Fonua-Blake

PENALTY - OBSTRUCTION
Joel Thompson

PENALTIES - OTHER
Reuben Garrick

PENALTY - OFFSIDE INSIDE 10M
Corey Waddell

PENALTY - OFFSIDE INSIDE 10M
Manase Fainu

PENALTY - OFFSIDE INSIDE 10M
Dylan Walker

Someone get you into our stats and video session team

Your a champion and would ring rings about the generalisation , journal jerk offs

Way to go

 

[Woodsie]

I am quitely confident of rolling the Storm this evening .... either way I don't think we will die wondering .... RIP IN MANLY!!

 

[Oracle]

Mmmmmm

We’ve always thought there might be a “ script” but this might have confirmed it!

Hidden agendas in high places
...I defy anyone who thinks Kenty has any journalistic integrity
Surely one see he turns into a lap dog When Conks comes on his show
Creates mischief and peddles misinformation....can’t stand him

 

[Woodsie]

Over the past five years, Manly have won just 27 of 72 night games. That’s a modest success rate of 37.5 per cent.

This year, Manly have just five wins from 11 games contested in the evening.

So ... this year we have improved our night game winning rate from 37.5 to a win rate of 45.5% ... I would say that was a fairly good improvement ....

 

[globaleagle]

Is he implying Manly is doing something illegal????

My assumption of his assumption is that Manly have improved so much it can only have been by perfecting the wrestle.

My assertion that Poor Paul Parra Poopy Pants Kent is a tribally aligned agenda driven monkey typist may be an assumption or an axiom.

Either way, Go Manly! Time to focus on the team and not any distractions these cowards print in their failing mediums.

Goodness it'd be embarrassing to be part of their family.

 

[globaleagle]

Have you copyrighted this phrase ... or can we all use it? ......

I think everyone now has to use it; like Lottoland!

#freetouse

 

[Go manly]

Jeez I would like to see Smith get rag dolled today

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Not confident, although i don’t think a loss pre finals will be a bad thing, don’t want to see it happen though

Have done half a days overtime to build up some good karma and will head home and put an old jersey on I’ve been wearing on game day the last couple of months, hasn’t seen a loss yet and I didn’t wear it when we lost to the Warriors

We must attack Vunivalus wing hard tonight, he is the worst defensive winger in the comp

 

[HappilyManly]

Manly have been in the Top 8 since round 3

Kent et al somehow missed the last 5 months of Manly's resurgence