Pick Your Team Manly v Warriors - [Round 27, 2025]

[mt.wellington]

Manly v Warriors - [Round 27, 2025]
PICK YOUR TEAM
Friday 5th September 8pm NZST
4 Pines Park, Sydney

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Here's your chance to select your dream team for the next rounds match so don your coaches cap on and lets hear it.

This thread will be closed without notice once the TEAM LIST thread opens for this game...

 

[CWC]

Same team except Healey for Egan

 

[the WARs]

Send the NSW cup team over, as no way we will beat Manly at home for one of their legends' last game..

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Is this 2 games in a row without an injury?

 

[Sukhdev]

Would like to see Leka in the starting lineup

 

[Inruin]

Time to pull the trigger Webby or continue to surrender meekly playing a boring brand of football that is struggling to beat anyone half decent and won't be good enough come finals time.

Our attack is boring and predictable. We have our best ball playing 7 on the bench as a utility and our most creative 9/14 left right out completely. Two changes. That's all it takes. Yup, I can already hear the kicking game argument being typed out but with the territory we make currently we very rarely need a long kick anyway. And with the possession and territory we had against the Eels I can't help but feel TMM and Healey create more in attack than what we showed.

So Cuddle's, Mr Conservative, Vanilla is my favorite flavour, it's time. It's now or never IMO. But I'm afraid you will stick with the conservative, vanilla spine we have now and a boring as fuck game plan, style of play and end results. And a waste of a huge opportunity.

Egan 9, TMM 7, CHT 6 and Healey 14. At least there is some creativity there which we are in dire need of.

 

[Damo]

Time to pull the trigger Webby or continue to surrender meekly playing a boring brand of football that is struggling to beat anyone half decent and won't be good enough come finals time.

Our attack is boring and predictable. We have our best ball playing 7 on the bench as a utility and our most creative 9/14 left right out completely. Two changes. That's all it takes. Yup, I can already hear the kicking game argument being typed out but with the territory we make currently we very rarely need a long kick anyway. And with the possession and territory we had against the Eels I can't help but feel TMM and Healey create more in attack than what we showed.

So Cuddle's, Mr Conservative, Vanilla is my favorite flavour, it's time. It's now or never IMO. But I'm afraid you will stick with the conservative, vanilla spine we have now and a boring as fuck game plan, style of play and end results. And a waste of a huge opportunity.

Egan 9, TMM 7, CHT 6 and Healey 14. At least there is some creativity there which we are in dire need of.

Meh ill take a conservative 14 wins and 8 losses, thank you.

 

[Inruin]

Meh ill take a conservative 14 wins and 8 losses, thank you.

So you have conceded a loss next game but wouldn't make any changes. Wow, ok....you will get your wish if he sticks with the same team. I'd rather we changed things up and the team had a decent crack.

 

[Damo]

So you have conceded a loss next game but wouldn't make any changes. Wow, ok....you will get your wish if he sticks with the same team. I'd rather we changed things up and the team had a decent crack.

How so?
Websters conservative style has won more than it has lost this year. Why would I want it to change?

 

[Inruin]

How so?
Websters conservative style has won more than it has lost this year. Why would I want it to change?

Because you just conceded we will lose with this style next week.

And the form in the previous 6-8 games show that we need to change things up. Cool if you don't agree.

 

[Damo]

Because you just conceded we will lose with this style next week.

And the form in the previous 6-8 games show that we need to change things up. Cool if you don't agree.

How did I concede that?? Respectfully wtf are you on about

 

[Inruin]

How did I concede that?? Respectfully wtf are you on about

My apologies. I took from your post today you would be happy to finish with 14 wins.

FYI we are now 14 wins and 9 losses.

 

[Damo]

My apologies. I took from your post today you would be happy to finish with 14 wins.

FYI we are now 14 wins and 9 losses.

Yeah, I thought they had updated the ladder already after our game with that reply. Apparently not

 

[Beastmode]

Meh I’ll take a conservative 14 wins and 8 losses, thank you.

Is that to go with a 0 from 1 first round knock out in the finals?

Conservative works if it’s a distance race but we’re in the home stretch and we need to turn it up a few gears

We need to prepare like it’s a sprint to the finish line

 

[Damo]

Is that to go with a 0 from 1 first round knock out in the finals?

Conservative works if it’s a distance race but we’re in the home stretch and we need to turn it up a few gears

If I could tell the future, I wouldn't be talking to you lot on a forum mate.

All I'm saying is Websters style has proven to win more than it loses, I don't see any point in changing it too heavily. It's not like it has been totally stagnant all season either, it has evolved with early in the tackle count spreads, different shape that has come off in the past month. I understand its hard to look past a result though

 

[timburgesstheonlyoneiknow]

Time to pull the trigger Webby or continue to surrender meekly playing a boring brand of football that is struggling to beat anyone half decent and won't be good enough come finals time.

Our attack is boring and predictable. We have our best ball playing 7 on the bench as a utility and our most creative 9/14 left right out completely. Two changes. That's all it takes. Yup, I can already hear the kicking game argument being typed out but with the territory we make currently we very rarely need a long kick anyway. And with the possession and territory we had against the Eels I can't help but feel TMM and Healey create more in attack than what we showed.

So Cuddle's, Mr Conservative, Vanilla is my favorite flavour, it's time. It's now or never IMO. But I'm afraid you will stick with the conservative, vanilla spine we have now and a boring as fuck game plan, style of play and end results. And a waste of a huge opportunity.

Egan 9, TMM 7, CHT 6 and Healey 14. At least there is some creativity there which we are in dire need of.

Boyd played well tonight.

 

[steakncheese]

Wade was average slow and predictable time for new blood before we play Panthers in knockout game.
We we are in trouble when our most damaging attacking back is Pompey.

 

[Inruin]

Boyd played well tonight.

Maybe, but with a wealth of possession and territory we struggled to create points. We seem to be reliant on scoring from bombs or having a try spoon feed to us. There is no doubt in my mind we lack creativity and we have two players (actually three but Cuddle's ain't dropping CNK) that can provide that.

This has been evident with our attack for the majority of the year. This isn't a new thing. It's just that we managed to squeak a number of wins earlier that masked over it for many. But we are at the pointy end of the season and it's not going to be good enough. It's already shown it's not good enough. Id rather play our best hand trying to win the next handful of games in a row.

 

[CWC]

Oh well we can always save the surprises for R1

 

[Dannevegas]

This side would actually do something

Martin
Tuivasa-scheck
Pompey
Berry
Kali
Harris-Tavita
Boyd
Fisher-Harris
Healey
Vaimauga
Fatialofa
Niukore
Clark

Tauapiki
Eiremia-Toeava
Ale
Halasima