OMFG it has happened

[Kiwi Eagle]

Hopefully curtis makes up from his ordinary performance last week but someone please explain what lloyd perrett brings??
Apart from pedestrian running, bouncing off tackles aND getting put on his back quite easy?? ??

Go back and watch the win against the Roosters at Brookie last year and you will see what he brings

 

[Pittwater Legend]

I swear that forwards put on solid performances all the time that end up getting ignored or forgotten.

 

[40 years an eagle]

Hopefully curtis makes up from his ordinary performance last week but someone please explain what lloyd perrett brings??
Apart from pedestrian running, bouncing off tackles aND getting put on his back quite easy?? ??

You didn't see the trials or last weeks reggies I gather.

 

[Dan]

NO POO
NO WRIGHT

Trent has listened to the sage posters @ silvertails.

We win.

be careful you may reap what you sew

 

[SeaEagle21]

Best squad available atm. Hastings rewarded for a good outing last week but considering Croker didn’t have a complete shocker there was no way he would be relegated. However he’ll be on notice now.

Won’t get my hopes up yet for a win over the eels because even though our fwds are better, they sometimes forget to channel that aggression correctly and get Manly loadings put on them. Could go either way but Baz has picked the best team available so lets hope they bring us a long overdue win!!

Tanginoa to have a blinder against his former club

 

[The better Robbo]

Did Parker do his ACL at the end of last season?
If so it will take him some time to get back to 100%. Very quick recovery as well - I hope not too early

Wasnt acl

 

[The better Robbo]

Would like to see Hastings given a chance to partner DCE in the halves. Don’t think we have seen him play in that role at all.

Id like to see him come on at half for the last 25 30 mins

 

[ALinda]

After last week's farce of leaving 2 on the bench, TB has redeemed himself by choosing the best possible team with who's available. Good stuff...Go Manly!

 

[Rosko]

Excellent team that has been chosen.

I would like to know what plans Trent has for Tom Wright.

Strange that after talking him up all summer as a centre, we immediately stuck him back at 5/8 in reserves.

 

[Dan]

Now that messages are getting through can someone try and get AFB not to give away a thousand penalties

 

[eagle40]

Outside of Dylan Walker this side is the best we can do this year & if Dylan was available I’d still go with Parker, runs harder & is quicker than Kelly. Just sayin

 

[double hoops]

Such a balanced looking side as well. Back row, Front row. This bench has got it all.

 

[BOZO]

Go back and watch the win against the Roosters at Brookie last year and you will see what he brings

What I would like Sirro to bring is consistency . His game against the Knights was not like the one against the Roosters at Brookie .

 

[wombatgc]

It's a momentous day, that should be celebrated to the fullest! Brown gooooorrrrrne!

 

[eaglebuzz]

I'm just hoping against hope that he doesn't drop anyone out of the 17 before kickoff.

 

[pjayz]

Anyone know whether Tom’s ankle is ok or if he is a chance to drop out?

He seemed to struggle in the backend of the game.

 

[The McCarrs Creek Eagle]

With less mistakes and a fanatical crowd behind us at the Fortress I think we can cause an upset.

 

[Narrabeen Laker]

With less mistakes and a fanatical crowd behind us at the Fortress I think we can cause an upset.

We are favourites to win and rightly so . Eels winning would be the upset

 

[HoldenV8]

We need to add a prop to the rotation, sadly Darcy is not available.

Lloyd has a lot to prove, and precious time to do so. Lets hope he can.

Hopefully Darcy thinks that he has something to prove as well when he returns. No longer is he the big, raw boned kid with potential, he's now getting towards the veteran class and needs to become a leader in this team. We know he is capable of it, during that period after his mum's death before he injured his shoulder in 2016 he was arguably THE form front rower in the NRL. His hit ups had power and purpose and instead of looking for the big hit in defence which caused more than a few missed tackles, he was just hitting hard and making sure they went down. He finally started playing to his potential and channeling his aggression in positive ways and it was beautiful to watch.

He needs to get back to that.

 

[HoldenV8]

Would like to see Hastings given a chance to partner DCE in the halves. Don’t think we have seen him play in that role at all.

I believe the only time he has been named in the Manly halves in first grade was for the Round 20 game against St Merge at Wollongong last year. Api and Green were both out that day (Green was a late withdrawal so Hastings wore #19) and Cam Cullen was named at hooker with Joey Lussick making his debut on the bench (Brown was also out injured). But for some reason before the team ran out, Barrett swapped them around and Cullen played pivot with Hastings at dummy half.

It didn't work and we got slaughtered 52-22 with Cullen offering next to nothing IIRC (along with some woeful defensive efforts, though he wasn't alone there). And I might be wrong but I believe when we scored those 22 points early in the 2nd half, Cullen had been replaced by Joey Lussick and Hastings was at 5/8. In that 20 or so minutes we looked a hell of a lot more organised in attack with a proper 5/8 running things and an actual hooker at dummy half. Then Cullen came back on for Lussick and St Merge took it from 30-22 to 52-22 by the end.

For some reason Hastings seemed to cop the brunt of the blame from Barrett for it and he hasn't played first grade since until named in the 17 this week. With Green and Api back the next week against Melbourne, Cullen replaced Lussick on the bench (Brown was still injured) and Hastings joined Lussick back at Blacktown.