sea eagles greatest game breakers

[Briza]

Was electric. Never see that in the modern game !

Must have been a Fulton thing, Hasler was good at it, but toovey from a scrum 25 out was a master.

 

[Lyonstomenzies]

Shayne Hayne could break a game open within the blink of an eye. His ability to keep the whistle in his pocket was legendary stuff.
He was the forward pass master with 1 metre forward passes just totally missing his eyes.

Oh that's right he played for the Rorters, not Manly. My bad.

 

[Harmless27]

Craig Innes had a cracking couple of seasons at left centre for us back in the 90's...... I always felt he was under-rated.

Shame his best years were in Union.

Shout out to Matt Ridge who also had a knack of winning games - mainly with his goal kicking and organisational skills.

 

[Bearfax]

Craig Innes had a cracking couple of seasons at left centre for us back in the 90's...... I always felt he was under-rated.

Shame his best years were in Union.

Shout out to Matt Ridge who also had a knack of winning games - mainly with his goal kicking and organisational skills.

Craig Innes had the advantage of one Terry Hills alongside him. Terry seemed to get on well with Innes and more than a few times opened the gate for Innes to make many of his penetrating runs.

Mind you Terry had a knack of using not altogether legal means to help Innes through and would probably be nabbed much more often with today's video scrutiny.

But what the heck. He used what he had and ensured that their centre partnership was as dangerous as the Lyon-Matai partnership more recently. They had a great combination

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Dale Shearer with his pace could be a game breaker.
Ditto, Russell Gartner.
Manly sure has been blessed with many outstanding players over the years.

 

[KOMORI]

When you stop and think about it, as a group of supporters we've been damn lucky to have had such an impressive bunch of talented players over the years. A lot of clubs would have been bloody happy to have had just one or two of the players mentioned in this thread.

Me? I can't split them, they were all incredibly good players in their own way and I'm just stoked that I've gotten to watch them.

I'm hoping that over the next few years Tom and DCE add their names to this illustrious list, and continue the Manly tradition of having players that can just bust open a game and destroy the opposition at the drop of a hat..

 

[cc eagle]

Mal Reilly, tough, hard pommy lock, great passing game and introduced the chip kick over the defence in Australia, regathered and off loaded to support players, BRILLIANT.

 

[Frank]

Stewart was the best 1 on 1 defender in the game - really made impact & rarely got brushed away - allowing him to do what we don't now...control that tempo in the ruck.

Terry Randall

 

[Woodsie]

Mal Reilly, tough, hard pommy lock, great passing game and introduced the chip kick over the defence in Australia, regathered and off loaded to support players, BRILLIANT.

I'll be taken to task on this, but I believe Mal Reilly was the best player to play for Manly in the old era.

 

[Harvies elbow]

Fulton. 73 GF is proof enough for me.

 

[maxta]

Terry Randall

Different era and different technique -
*Randall would cut players in half or KO them with serious contact
*Stewart would wrap them up ball and all
Best tackler easily - Randall
On that point, Jake has almost perfect technique yet is not rewarded as his tackles drop a player so quickly the refs are screaming "Release"
These copybook tackles deserve more reward.....

 

[SLR5000]

Nobody can take that of bozo.. He was manlys best ever player no matter how you look at it with snake & jamie lyon very close behind him ..

 

[Wombat Legacy]

Bozo, daylight, C Lyons, J Lyon, Eadie, B Stewart, P Blake , Reilly, Menzies, Boyd, Cleal, Gibbs, Toovey....far out we were blessed