Gameday Warriors vs Manly - [Round 2, 2025]

[Zaggo]

For everyone saying their pack is miles better, I would disagree.

JFH >> Paseka
Egan > Jazz
Barney > Aloai
Capewell <<< Hamole
Niukore = Burbo
Clark < Jurbo

Could probably make an argument that Niukore is better than Burbo - you'd certainly hope so considering he's on probably 4x the money - but he's such a lazy prick that I'm not going to make it.

 

[roguei]

For everyone saying their pack is miles better, I would disagree.

JFH >> Paseka
Egan > Jazz
Barney > Aloai
Capewell <<< Hamole
Niukore = Burbo
Clark < Jurbo

Could probably make an argument that Niukore is better than Burbo - you'd certainly hope so considering he's on probably 4x the money - but he's such a lazy prick that I'm not going to make it.

Havn't had a chance to have a geez, but have capewell and Olakau'atu ever faced off in origin? Hopefully facing off against him will bring out a more origin style Capewell.

 

[Beastmode]

For everyone saying their pack is miles better, I would disagree.

JFH >> Paseka
Egan > Jazz.
Barney Aloai
Capewell <<< Hamole
Niukore = Burbo
Clark < Jurbo

Could probably make an argument that Niukore is better than Burbo - you'd certainly hope so considering he's on probably 4x the money - but he's such a lazy prick that I'm not going to make it.

You could have said the same against the Canberra pack and look what happened…

more like

Ford < Paseka
Egan > Jazz
Clark < Aloai
Capewell <<< Hamole
Niukore < Burbo
Walker < Jurbo

 

[run_it_str8_again]

With us having to play Walker off the bench it really limits the Healy / Egan possibilities

thinking of how QLD use Hunt to start at 9 then swap to Grant might be predicated on the fact that Hunt can stay on the field in the halves and Grant subs a prop who then becomes part of a smaller rotation of subs. Or something like that. Don't know how we could make two 9s work in our situation

 

[Tohu’s_Knees]

First off, it pisses me off seeing Jazz play hooker for Manly, cause that tells me that we completely wasted a bench spot for nothing last year. (He played fairly well last week too)

I don’t like our chances at all tonight tbh.
But what I want is a CLEAR improvement on last week.

Happy to give CHT and Metcalf at least the first 4 rounds to get things going.

Forwards need to muscle up, I fear Manly just going straight through the middle.
Let’s see that legendary “line speed” I hear so much of. (If Ford isn’t starting AND playing 80, I don’t get why he’s in the team)

 

[roguei]

First off, it pisses me off seeing Jazz play hooker for Manly, cause that tells me that we completely wasted a bench spot for nothing last year. (He played fairly well last week too)

I don’t like our chances at all tonight tbh.
But what I want is a CLEAR improvement on last week.

Happy to give CHT and Metcalf at least the first 4 rounds to get things going.

Forwards need to muscle up, I fear Manly just going straight through the middle.
Let’s see that legendary “line speed” I hear so much of. (If Ford isn’t starting AND playing 80, I don’t get why he’s in the team)

Understandable to be pissed as i think he would of been prefect to cover hooker and middle for us instead of lussick. But Jazz put his foot down and said he is not playing hooker for us anymore. Looks like once his job was on the line going to manly he changed tune.

 

[Zaggo]

You could have said the same against the Canberra pack and look what happened…

more like

Ford < Paseka
Egan > Jazz
Clark < Aloai
Capewell <<< Hamole
Niukore < Burbo
Walker < Jurbo

Canberra had a far better prop rotation than Manly - between Tapine/Hors/Papa that's a lot of origins and internationals.

 

[Beastmode]

Understandable to be pissed as i think he would have been prefect to cover hooker and middle for us instead of lussick. But Jazz put his foot down and said he is not playing hooker for us anymore. Looks like once his job was on the line going to manly he changed tune.

What a selfish ****

 

[MrFrankWhite]

For everyone saying their pack is miles better, I would disagree.

JFH >> Paseka
Egan > Jazz
Barney > Aloai
Capewell <<< Hamole
Niukore = Burbo
Clark < Jurbo

Could probably make an argument that Niukore is better than Burbo - you'd certainly hope so considering he's on probably 4x the money - but he's such a lazy prick that I'm not going to make it.

Based off what culminative life long stats?
Off last week

117m vs 152m
64m vs 59m
88m vs ?
39m vs 156m
69m vs 80m
160m vs 145m

 

[roguei]

Based off what culminative life long stats?
Off last week

117m vs 152m
64m vs 59m
88m vs ?
39m vs 156m
69m vs 80m
160m vs 145m

How far has marata fallen off to be a weaker 2nd rower to fucking burbo of all people.

 

[Christchurch_Warrior]

Jazz
51mins
8 runs
59meters
4 dh runs
22 dh meters
20 tackles
3 missed

Egan
80mins
7 runs
64 meters
6 dh runs
62 dh meters
51 tackles
2 missed

Points go to Egan for now

Egan didn't do too bad actually since he was behind a beaten pack. Still would like to see Healy get time though.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Egan didn't do too bad actually since he was behind a beaten pack. Still would like to see Healy get time though.

I was surprised too. I certainly dont have anything against Egan but I wonder if we are using him properly. I think he'd be more effective off the bench

 

[roguei]

I was surprised too. I certainly dont have anything against Egan but I wonder if we are using him properly. I think he'd be more effective off the bench

Maybe... To me while we have a new halves combination, he's gotta lead the rest of the spine and be a rock there. Not sure we have the flexiblity in leadership there to allow him to be off at the start of a game.

 

[Zaggo]

Based off what culminative life long stats?
Off last week

117m vs 152m
64m vs 59m
88m vs ?
39m vs 156m
69m vs 80m
160m vs 145m

Unlike some on this forum, my memory and judgement of a player extends past the previous fortnight.

Did our pack get beaten by Canberra? Yes. But you can't effectively judge anything using a single metric from a single performance.

All of our forwards made more tackles than the Eagles ones did - does that mean they were a better defensive unit? Of course not.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Unlike some on this forum, my memory and judgement of a player extends past the previous fortnight.

So what sort of time frame are we talking here? 1 season ago? 2?

All of our forwards made more tackles than the Eagles ones did - does that mean they were a better defensive unit? Of course not.

Of course not, it means the Raiders had more sets than us and the Eagles had more than their oppo

 

[sup42]

Manly are one of those clubs that sees us as their patsies.

They usually give us a hiding by beating up our forwards and then playing second phase to tire our defenders.

We really struggle to contain their second phase game when they play us and I see tonight as being no different.

Even when we beat them it is a close game and they are not scared of us.

Realist says we probably get flogged this time, not being negative at all, I am not in any way saying that I have no hope for a competitive game.

Gonna try enjoy it all the same, probably be looking for silver linings out of individual performances rather than some miracle turn around.

 

[ShaunJohnson7]

Sure, but he is part of that better platform. He’s wasn’t at his best for parts of last year and in game one he didn’t offer anything special.

I think you are being very generous there with only parts of last year. The worst thing is he's actually the strongest part of our spine currently

 

[ShaunJohnson7]

Glad I started drinking early today....won't remember much of the game now at least.

 

[SJ2k]

If Webby doesn't fuck up the bench rotation as much as he did last game, we have a small shot here. Would need the rub of the green for sure. Be nice if Jazz could pull a Jazz and punch someone.

 

[snake77]

We often start well at home. Similar to other clubs playing at their home ground.

Guys run hard with the crowd behind them. Bend the line allowing to play more direct, dummy half runs. Hopefully that gives them enough confidence to stay in the contest.

Then it will be how well we defend and if we can find a way to get points.

Hopefully an improvement on round 1 and a consistent performance. Too many games at home we've got off to a good start and lost momentum.