KaZa link said:
whether hes played wing or not is irrelevant. Lets face it.. some of the balls he dropped... were not even hard.
Come on, in those conditions, everything was hard. He wasn't the only one to drop the ball - we had a 37% completion rate in the second half. Nuemann wasn't the cause of every single set of six where we made an error. He had a bad game, no one will argue with that, but that happens, and he did it in some of the most difficult conditions you can face as a winger.
And he copped a rough call or two along the way as well. The one off the drop-out in the first half, where Orford couldn't quite reach/catch the ball, and half-batted it back to Neumann, who also knocked it backwards, was incorrectly called a knock-on. The angle of the camera made it look like it went forward, but replays showed otherwise.
It's a small thing, and doesn't excuse the rest of the errors he made, but I think people are overreacting and putting everything on him because we lost what we would have considered to be an unloseable game last season.
It's April. We'll recover. We all know it. The rest of the comp knows it. Do you really think there is a team out there in the NRL who has taken Manly off the teams they will be facing in September? No f*cking way. We'll be there, sure and certain.
