Post Match Rd 16: Warriors Beat Broncos In Thriller!

[ToiletDuck]

Great win, ugly win. 5 in a row and first time the club has ever come through June undefeated.

Man of the match???

 

[Samwitwiki]

Good win! Mannering my MoM.

 

[wallacenz]

il go with mateo, mannering and rapira

 

[Fazz]

Mannering by a mile. Might have been his best game in years. He was a wrecking ball on defense and running with some actually venom. Couldn't be happier with the way he went.

43 Tackles
78 Meters
1 Offload.

90% of it was quality too. Massive.

 

[Xt1ncT]

Mannering
Fish
Matulino

Awsome performance from Mannering. His tackles were awesome. Once again Fish saves a certain try with an unbelievable play. Mutts - well what can you say?160 odd metres tells its own story.

HM - Konnie!! What an intercept try. Brilliant play.

 

[Magic Stick]

3 - Mannering...outstanding captains knock,defended like his life depended on it
2- Lillyman...the raging bull is in top form,has to be the form prop in the game the last 6 weeks
1- Fish... I really think he should be our num 1 for the rest of 2013,another top game

HM Leuluai,Neilsen,Hurrell

Johnson was pathetic today,constantly put his own team in poor situations
Locke other than 2 bombs defused,i thought he was woeful,never in position and just lazy

 

[Jay M]

3. Hurrell - 239 metres, saved a try and scored one with the intercept. 11 tackles, 1 missed per nrl.com. I don't know how many players playing out of position, tired, could have done that. Also, in the two games we have recently one 18-16 at home (vs Manly and now the Broncos) - Hurrell has been the one to score the match winning try.
2. Mannering - most influential game of the season for me for Simon. Defence was outstanding. Only one slight criticism... He knew he was offside when he gave away that penalty in the first half - he could arguably have left it (I don't know if it was the right play or not)...
1. Our props. All of them. They deserve it.

HM: Fish for the finger tip tap to save the try.

-10. Johnson

Side note: why is Gus in the 40-20 studio with McIvor and Halligan? Somewhat ironic that Gus is singling out Marquee for praise Gus is now saying that ET is the sole reason the warriors have won 5 in a row - he's gone from playing half a game to 80 mins...

 

[Swanley]

Mannering
Rapira
Thomas L

HM - Nielson Friend and Lowrie(for no stupid penalties).

 

[Sebastian]

3 - Mannering...outstanding captains knock,defended like his life depended on it
2- Lillyman...the raging bull is in top form,has to be the form prop in the game the last 6 weeks
1- Fish... I really think he should be our num 1 for the rest of 2013,another top game

HM Leuluai,Neilsen,Hurrell

Johnson was pathetic today,constantly put his own team in poor situations
Locke other than 2 bombs defused,i thought he was woeful,never in position and just lazy

Bro. The cards have been changed. New deck. Locke was our best fullback by a mile. But havn't things changed. He's still good. But Fish is possibly as good. If not better.

Hurrell 3 Don't give a toss about anything except it takes a top shelf player to win a game like that. Pure bred. Match winner.

Mannering 2 The octopus. Literally crushing in defence. Ran himself into the ground. Simply had an old fashioned blinder.

Leuluai 1 Brisbane were sprinting up like madmen today. Rushing up out of the line putting all sorts of pressure on our halves. And suprisingly it wasn't Shaun Johnson that stood up when needed. It was TL. A man as hard as nails. And managed to stay solid under the rushing defence. Brisbane were like the West Tigers at their best today. But TL still stood up.

H.M.

Jake. Ran hard. Tackled hard. Obviously loves the joint. I hope he gets to play origin again. If he doesn't at least 18th man. Which was well deserved.

Fish. Well. Well. Well. This player is the most improved of the year, IMO. ME's greatest achievement. Plays hard and fast now. Which brings his all important speed into play.

 

[eudebrito]

1. Mannering - others have covered how well he played, effectively giving away that penalty for offside just lets the d line get set, it was always broncs ball, six again. It'll affect his stats, but who cares.

2. All the props, its not matagi's fault ME refuses to put him back out there.

3. Konrad, he did win us the game!

 

[Magic Stick]

Think Elliott's plan to basically run with a 3 man bench is gona burn his forward pack out at the backend of the season.

 

[ToiletDuck]

Think Elliott's plan to basically run with a 3 man bench is gona burn his forward back out at the backend of the season.

I do not understand this either, whether it's Matagi or Packer, they play the opening 15 mins and are never seen again. It makes little sense having this as an actual gameplan...

 

[Marshthedarsh]

Hmm... According to ONE news - Konrad is spelt with a C, we beat Bris by 50ish (38) and we still play at Ericsson...




Do it right or not at all thank you

 

[Boats n Hoes]

1 = Mannering/Taylor
2 Lillyman

Great game. Heart attack stuff. Tbh I thought Bronco's were probably the more dominant team today. Their rep players bought a rep intensity and they probably lost it on one pass. Credit to us though. We kept scrambling and turning up with Mannering and Taylor outstanding in this regard. Lillyman was a monster and Mal would be hard pressed to ignore that performance against many of his Queensland mates.

Thought Konnie had had a pretty quiet game tbh and looked like he was running out of steam the longer the match went on but god I was riding him home every step. Nice to see we're now winning the close ones.

 

[BA-AD Luck]

3. Mannering (first time this season ever mentioned. The best sign yet)
2. Lillyman (should be Queensland 18th if not top 17 in Origin III)
1. Hurrell

 

[Inruin]

Mannering. Easy. Good to see us win a real arm wrestle game, possibly lucky to but we were losing gmaes like that eralier in the year. Locke looks like he is unfit match wise and perhaps should have played vulcans. Manu is slow to turn and got found out a couple of times. If we keep running with the bench we have it is going to cost us at some stage, probably against souths next week. we cant have lowrie and Peyroux on the bench together. They dominated us through the middle at times and maybe Gubb instead of DP or TL would have added some go forward. all that said we won all 3 grades and 5 in a row!

 

[wallacenz]

gonna be interesting next week if manu is out. how much will we miss his try scoring and attacking aerial game

 

[Hitman82]

Great game, epic win. Still bitter as about that sack of shit Hodges not getting penalised... he throws three clear elbows into Mateo's face and GETS the penalty. Video ref needs to stop giving himself reacharounds and actually watch the game.

3 - Mannering
2 - Leuluai
1 - Lillyman

 

[Ranger]

Just want to add congrats to Matt Elliott on 5 wins in a row for the first time.

 

[Jay M]

gonna be interesting next week if manu is out. how much will we miss his try scoring and attacking aerial game

Laumape would come straight onto the wing. be interesting to see who they put on the right with Konnie - Laumape or Fish...

I don't think we'll lose too much in the try scoring stakes with Laumape having about as much power and speed as Manu (IMO), and is probably a bit better on defence. I don't know that Laumape has the aerial game to match Manu (height wise) but he has impressed in his games so far.[DOUBLEPOST=1372574165][/DOUBLEPOST]Quote from ME in the post match conference: "It was certainly a high quality game of footy" (understatement of the year perhaps)?