Gameday Manly v Warriors - [Round 27, 2025]

[MrFrankWhite]

Why does he keep jamming when lekas right there

Leka's hold and release is much better than Dals

 

[Zarjaz]

That would have been so classic if we had challenged a knock-on call with a second to run out on the clock…

 

[MXRecord]

It's a good thing Manly are better at defusing their tries than we are.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Todd Smith is such a useless fuckhead. Doesnt call held, lets them wrestle, then blows the penalty

Seems to be a random six again every set

 

[Brightman]

fucking diabolical..

 

[WAH MAN]

Yikes. What a first half.

We are masters at bluffing and hiding our awesomeness. Or we're just as rubbish as we look.

 

[CLQV3R]

Nightmare stuff. Where is our team's leadership?! Why are no senior players stepping up, settling and directing the team?! We look absolutely flustered.

 

[Canonball]

Why does he keep jamming when lekas right there

ikr? what is he doing?

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

I cant believe a week out from finals im watching a game as bad as this.

Next week should be a celebration because she's all over!

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Do we stand too deep rather than being to slow in attack?

 

[Leon Black]

Shaun Johnson defends DWZ on his show, calling us all couch fans. Absolute dickhead defending the indefensible. One of the last plays for Manly in that half, ended with a poor tap on pass from Turbo, which showed his nepotism! Leka had Talau covered, DWZ was on Leka’s shoulder leaving young Hoppa unmarked, defend that!

 

[Wahs_Ultras]

Nightmare stuff. Where is our team's leadership?! Why are no senior players stepping up, settling and directing the team?! We look absolutely flustered.

Definitely missing Barney. He’s more of a traditional captain than Fish who leads more through his actions

 

[Leon Black]

On attack we are shuffling the ball again and not running and engaging the line

 

[RustyFT]

Our chaps are tired. Been a long season and we have probably been punching above our weight to finish 6th.

 

[BarnesNZ]

I fail to see why Noone in our whole squad is near capable of even trying a 40/20 why can't they train them...

 

[Bay39er]

Definitely missing Barney. He’s more of a traditional captain than Fish who leads more through his actions

FISH a leader, you are joking aren’t you?

 

[Boats n Hoes]

Leka's hold and release is much better than Dals

Dallins having one of those games where he's just on default jam, that edge has actually looked better once Niukore went off (i suspect a lot of it starts with his non lateral ability) but jesus they still look likely to score when they spread that way cause fucking Dallin is just all over the place.

Leka's actually defending well i thought

 

[MXRecord]

Shaun Johnson defends DWaz on his show, calling us all couch fans. Absolute dickhead defending the indefensible. One of the last plays for Manly in that half, ended with a poor tap on pass from Turbo, which showed his nepotism! Leka had Talau covered, DWZ was on Leka’s shoulder leaving young Hoppa unmarked, defend that!

SJ has always been sensitive to criticism and arguably contributed to our victim mentality. It doesn't suprise me to see him defending DWZ and instead being critical of those who see the obvious.

 

[Beastmode]

Rocco Berry.. hope he’s ok needs to practice how to fall properly and not land in so many awkward positions

 

[roguei]

On the positive side:

CNK is looking surprisingly fun in attack with the grubber and then rainbow pass.

Healey looks great as an individual player, breaking lines and even involved in support play. Don't think he replaces Egan fully, as Egan makes the halves look really good imo with his service where Healey is unable to currently. But Healey's defense and creativity demands a 20-30 min stint.

Eddie felt like an immediate effect on the field.

Not gonna get into individual awfulness as I think fundamentally a 70% completion rate will never win you a game.