Went down and watched the reggies play the Central Coast Storm this arvo at Brookie. Pretty miserable day and only a couple of hundred people there to watch.
Points of interest;
- CC wear the crappy Storm jersey and had Russell Aitken, Cliff Manua, Sam Tagataese & Regan Tanner (ex knights) playing for them.
- pretty dull first half with Manly leading 6-0 through blindside individual effort from Meaney. The Koala played 5/8 and the attack looked ordinary although the defense was well organised (like 1st grade). This team has been scoring plenty of points so I was interested to see how that was possible with Koala and Jeff Robson in the halves. Robson organises well but didn't offer a lot and in  my opinion would not handle 1st grade if Ox got injured which is a worry.
- 2nd half was a lot better with Nick B-Q not returning to the field. Kenny Edwards from u20s got a run and he and big Georgie Rose carved up in the 2nd half. Tim Browne (goal kicking backrower) also played well off the bench. 4 2nd half tries were scored with the final score at 24-0.
- Andrew Suniula (winger)looks the goods and always looked likely to beat a couple. Georgie still has a bit of weight on but probably not much more than last year. He made plenty of yards and heaps of offloads. He will be ready to step up if we get a few injuries.
- Meaney was really involved but will probably never be 1st grade standard. Phil Deadwood is still going. Plenty of minutes and hitups but zero impact. Offerdahl hasn't really kicked on. Tries hard but not big enough. Mauro was solid and Wells shows skill but neither did anything amazing. Same with Neumann.
- the program listed Halden as out indefinitely with his shoulder injury and Jack A has a hand injury and is due back in 1 or 2 weeks
Points of interest;
- CC wear the crappy Storm jersey and had Russell Aitken, Cliff Manua, Sam Tagataese & Regan Tanner (ex knights) playing for them.
- pretty dull first half with Manly leading 6-0 through blindside individual effort from Meaney. The Koala played 5/8 and the attack looked ordinary although the defense was well organised (like 1st grade). This team has been scoring plenty of points so I was interested to see how that was possible with Koala and Jeff Robson in the halves. Robson organises well but didn't offer a lot and in  my opinion would not handle 1st grade if Ox got injured which is a worry.
- 2nd half was a lot better with Nick B-Q not returning to the field. Kenny Edwards from u20s got a run and he and big Georgie Rose carved up in the 2nd half. Tim Browne (goal kicking backrower) also played well off the bench. 4 2nd half tries were scored with the final score at 24-0.
- Andrew Suniula (winger)looks the goods and always looked likely to beat a couple. Georgie still has a bit of weight on but probably not much more than last year. He made plenty of yards and heaps of offloads. He will be ready to step up if we get a few injuries.
- Meaney was really involved but will probably never be 1st grade standard. Phil Deadwood is still going. Plenty of minutes and hitups but zero impact. Offerdahl hasn't really kicked on. Tries hard but not big enough. Mauro was solid and Wells shows skill but neither did anything amazing. Same with Neumann.
- the program listed Halden as out indefinitely with his shoulder injury and Jack A has a hand injury and is due back in 1 or 2 weeks