Manly Week
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TIGERS
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I was fairly sure that the Eels were going to roll us yesterday… I was wrong. Having said that if Hayne and Sandow hadn't gifted us two tries a piece it could've been a different story.
If we keep it simple and defend over 80 minutes we'll give ourselves a chance. Our kicking game has to be spot on. Manly are never comfortable playing at Bluetounge... if it was Brookvale it would be another story.
I don't think we'll have as much luck close to the line as we got against Parra and Penrith. Matai, Lyon, Glen Stewart and Watmough are no pushovers. It'd be nice to see Moltzen and Benji link up for a few midfield linebreaks. A bit of show and go from Miller might do the trick as well.
Could go either way.. we have to earn some respect regardless of the result.
If we keep it simple and defend over 80 minutes we'll give ourselves a chance. Our kicking game has to be spot on. Manly are never comfortable playing at Bluetounge... if it was Brookvale it would be another story.
I don't think we'll have as much luck close to the line as we got against Parra and Penrith. Matai, Lyon, Glen Stewart and Watmough are no pushovers. It'd be nice to see Moltzen and Benji link up for a few midfield linebreaks. A bit of show and go from Miller might do the trick as well.
Could go either way.. we have to earn some respect regardless of the result.
happy_tiger
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Potter will need to quickly find a lot of defensive band aids for our side and if both sides play near potential Manly are clear cut favourites
These are the games one B Marshall has to stand up and perform
These are the games one B Marshall has to stand up and perform
supercoach
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All Iam looking for is improvement each week,it will not get you a win every week,but you will win more than you loose.On paper Manly should dominate our pack,but funny things happen .
You have to remember Jamie Lyon will be running at our left edge as well…he is up there with the elite centres. On the other side you have Matai and Jorgue who are class. I'm not worried so much about our defense up the middle but man are we going to need to step up our defense on the fringes
MacDougall
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It's kind of sad to admit but the same issues regarding selection mistakes will cost us against Manly imo. Potter has shown plenty to indicate he isn't going to make ongoing selection blunders but I can't see him selecting Tedesco at fb against Manly and I think that him at fullback would win us this match and without will cost us. His support play up the guts would make a critical difference in this match. Miller, Farah and the forwards will get through the middle often enough to create chances but Moltzen will not be there to ice them. Tedesco would be.
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Titans were good, Manly were off….apparently it was very very hot...manly looked stuffed, they had to do a lot of defense on the back of a six day break and flying interstate...they'll do recovery today.....maybe get two sessions in before Thurs.
F'aoso is on report and I'd say he may well miss it but dunno his points....
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....all that said, they'll be smarting over the loss, they still came home strong - theyve scored 52 points in three games in their 2nd halves, while we fade badly at the back...still Im not real confident here but I & many thought manly would win last night too
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@TIGERS said:
Without marika we got no chance, we are a small team we need speed
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@AmericanHistoryX said:
Like the Titan beating Manly? That will never happen….oh wait
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FARANGALANG
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@AmericanHistoryX said:
I think that would be the greatest victory of all just playing the 80 minutes.If we can start to do this the rest will start to fall into place.
@FARANGALANG said:
I think we are seeing all this right now- there will be highs & lows - its under your nose
AmericanHistoryX
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we switch off Ink - we're not their for the full 80.
We need to kill that switch.
We need to kill that switch.
I think if we were down points on Friday night we wouldn't have switched off.
Other than Melbourne/Souths last year we give the top teams a run for their money no matter where we are. I don't see us getting demolished like rd 1 but it will be a close contest.
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Other than Melbourne/Souths last year we give the top teams a run for their money no matter where we are. I don't see us getting demolished like rd 1 but it will be a close contest.
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foreveratiger
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Can't see us winning this , hope i'm wrong , last year we started the year 1 from 6 but then won 7 in a row , from round 7 to 13 , so we already started better than last year 2 from 3 , so fingers crossed.
Not expecting too much from the team this coming week to be honest. Hopefully we turn that excellent first 30 minute effort against Parra into a longer period of excellence against the Sea Eagles, but I'm not expecting to win this one. I think their big aggressive pack will be putting too much pressure on our guys for them to be able to handle for the full 80 minutes. Having said that, it'll be a terrific guage of where we are at in our progression under Potter. Good luck to the boys, and I'm hoping they prove me wrong!!
Gary_Bakerloo
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@Demonborger said:
Agreed. They are a team on the slide. Said this many a time before, but I don't think Toovey has brought any new ideas to that team and they are running on the momentum from the Hasler years.
Not to say they won't beat us this Thursday, they are still a good team, but their final position this season will be lower than last season. I mean they recruited David Gower…....please!
