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The Headline on the back of today's Daily Telegraph….. A DNA Freak.....Why Watmough is now World's best forward.
And the Article......Don't you get the feeling sometimes that rag hacks only get their ideas from what that read on our club forums :laughing:
**Watmough goes from zero to hero**
By Dean Ritchie
HE BEGAN the NRL season mired in controversy but Anthony Watmough is being hailed as the best rugby league forward in the world after **one of the greatest individual performances of the past 40 years.**
Manly's powerhouse back-rower produced the perfect forward's game against Wests Tigers on Monday night - stunning statisticians with his workrate and physical capabilities.
Watmough scored two tries, ran for 271m in 23 runs and made three line breaks, 15 tackle busts and 27 tackles - in a side that lost 19-18.
"He is a DNA freak. **Anthony is blessed with a body that is a machine and he uses it aggressively,"** said Don Singe, Manly's head strength and conditioning coach.
"In the gym he doesn't perform any better than other players.
"You don't build bodies like his - you are born that way. He has good balance, muscle fibre and energy systems that recharge.
"I have been in a lot of different sports but he is the best complete physical athlete I have seen."
Watmough tore Wests Tigers to shreds and was virtually unstoppable, scoring a double in a high-intensity performance that left experts in awe. "His workrate, strength, speed and ability to offload the ball in this match ranks among the best games I have seen from a forward in my time watching the sport in over 40 years," league historian and Fox Sports statistician manager Ian Collis said.
"The fact he could maintain his intensity for 80 minutes and still be having the same impact at the back end of the game as the opening was incredible."
After being man-of-the-match in Manly's World Club Challenge win over Leeds, Watmough was then embroiled in controversy when he was accused of punching a Manly sponsor at the club's troubled season launch.
But his performance on Monday night prompted former greats Laurie Daley and Paul Sironen to declare Watmough the game's premier forward. "He is the best forward in the world at the moment. Anthony has more tackle-breaks than any other forward in the NRL," Daley said.
Sironen added: "He is in a real purple patch. Anthony has reached a new level in confidence. When they hit him, he just spins out of the tackle."
Watmough yesterday was reluctant to talk up his Monday night effort but did say: "Mentally it was one of my best games. I tried to stay in the game for the whole 80 minutes."
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:laughing: :laughing: Watmough DNA freak…..I new he was missing a chromosome or two......
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DNA freak Watmough to play Corky in "Life Goes On" telemovie
DNA freak Watmough to play Corky in "Life Goes On" telemovie
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/lhqnews/marshall-returns-fire-at-8216lucky8217-claim/2009/08/04/1249350548331.html
**Marshall returns fire at ‘lucky’ claim**
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THE war of words between Wests Tigers and Manly continued yesterday, with Tigers five-eighth Benji Marshall hitting back at the suggestion by Sea Eagles second-rower Anthony Watmough that the Tigers got lucky in Monday night’s thriller.
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Watmough, when interviewed on the field by Fox Sports straight after the Tigers had won 19-18 at the SFS, said: ‘‘It came down to two 80-metre, 90-metre tries they scored. If it wasn’t for that, [and] the bounce of the ball goes our way, it’s a different game. But that’s footy and they got all the luck, and we had to work hard for what we did.
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‘‘It’s a credit to our boys, we really stuck in there. I’m not going to take anything away from them, but we really dug deep when things were going against us,’’ he said.
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The Tigers gathered for a recovery session at Enfield pool yesterday and their star players said the win was as well deserved as any of the four in a row they had recorded to revive their hopes of making the finals. The Tigers are ninth, two points outside of the top eight.
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‘‘Yeah, I heard that,’’ Marshall said of Watmough’s comments. ‘‘He’s entitled to say what he wants, he was the best player with the comeback that they had, but it was no fluke that we won. We were leading 18-0 in the first half and football’s football, you’ve got to take every opportunity as it comes.
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‘‘You’ve still got to defend the next set or hold teams out. In the end we could have let it go, but we held on and got the win and got the two points we needed. You have to make your own luck and he knows enough about football to know you need a bit of luck and to play well, and we did play well.
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‘‘In the first half we played some of the best football we’ve played and in the second half we knew they were going to come back. They’re a great team, but we held them out and we deserved that win as much as any of the four we’ve had in a row.’’
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Hooker and captain Robbie Farah added: ‘‘First half, we were the better side. We defended well and even though they made a few line breaks our scramble was great. I thought, counterattack-wise, we blew them off the park with our counterattack.
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‘‘He’s probably right [that] in the second half they came home the stronger and we probably put the cue in the rack there a bit. Credit to them, but they had their chances to win the game in the end. I thought we deserved to win, especially the way we started.
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‘‘It was a big game for both teams and I thought our first 50 to 60 minutes was great. Even at the start of the second half we were kicking to the corners, making them go the length of the field. In the last 20 minutes I thought we probably panicked a bit, but we held on in the end.’’
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Tigers second-rower Gareth Ellis said the team’s veteran coach, Tim Sheens, was good at keeping things calm and ensuring the Tigers don’t get overexcited as they bid to continue their late-season run all the way to the finals.
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‘‘Tim offers perspective and that’s the key,’’ Ellis said. ‘‘We’re nowhere near there yet. We’ve put ourselves in the position where every week now is a bit of a grand final for us. We’re out of the eight still, so we need to keep winning and take each game as it comes.
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‘‘We’ve got the Roosters this week and they’re playing for their pride. That’s a dangerous team to be playing against.’’
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The last-placed Roosters will host the Tigers at the SFS on Sunday and Farah said people who thought this would be an easier game for the Tigers didn’t see the Roosters beat Newcastle last weekend.
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‘‘I thought they were awesome against the Knights,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s going to be a tough one for us. They don’t want to run last, they’re playing for their coach, Brad Fittler, they’re playing for ‘Fitzy’ [Craig Fitzgibbon], who’s going overseas at the end of the year, and they’re playing to impress Brian Smith as well for next year.
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‘‘So they’ve got plenty of reasons to play well.’’
**Marshall returns fire at ‘lucky’ claim**
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THE war of words between Wests Tigers and Manly continued yesterday, with Tigers five-eighth Benji Marshall hitting back at the suggestion by Sea Eagles second-rower Anthony Watmough that the Tigers got lucky in Monday night’s thriller.
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Watmough, when interviewed on the field by Fox Sports straight after the Tigers had won 19-18 at the SFS, said: ‘‘It came down to two 80-metre, 90-metre tries they scored. If it wasn’t for that, [and] the bounce of the ball goes our way, it’s a different game. But that’s footy and they got all the luck, and we had to work hard for what we did.
>
‘‘It’s a credit to our boys, we really stuck in there. I’m not going to take anything away from them, but we really dug deep when things were going against us,’’ he said.
>
The Tigers gathered for a recovery session at Enfield pool yesterday and their star players said the win was as well deserved as any of the four in a row they had recorded to revive their hopes of making the finals. The Tigers are ninth, two points outside of the top eight.
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‘‘Yeah, I heard that,’’ Marshall said of Watmough’s comments. ‘‘He’s entitled to say what he wants, he was the best player with the comeback that they had, but it was no fluke that we won. We were leading 18-0 in the first half and football’s football, you’ve got to take every opportunity as it comes.
>
‘‘You’ve still got to defend the next set or hold teams out. In the end we could have let it go, but we held on and got the win and got the two points we needed. You have to make your own luck and he knows enough about football to know you need a bit of luck and to play well, and we did play well.
>
‘‘In the first half we played some of the best football we’ve played and in the second half we knew they were going to come back. They’re a great team, but we held them out and we deserved that win as much as any of the four we’ve had in a row.’’
>
Hooker and captain Robbie Farah added: ‘‘First half, we were the better side. We defended well and even though they made a few line breaks our scramble was great. I thought, counterattack-wise, we blew them off the park with our counterattack.
>
‘‘He’s probably right [that] in the second half they came home the stronger and we probably put the cue in the rack there a bit. Credit to them, but they had their chances to win the game in the end. I thought we deserved to win, especially the way we started.
>
‘‘It was a big game for both teams and I thought our first 50 to 60 minutes was great. Even at the start of the second half we were kicking to the corners, making them go the length of the field. In the last 20 minutes I thought we probably panicked a bit, but we held on in the end.’’
>
Tigers second-rower Gareth Ellis said the team’s veteran coach, Tim Sheens, was good at keeping things calm and ensuring the Tigers don’t get overexcited as they bid to continue their late-season run all the way to the finals.
>
‘‘Tim offers perspective and that’s the key,’’ Ellis said. ‘‘We’re nowhere near there yet. We’ve put ourselves in the position where every week now is a bit of a grand final for us. We’re out of the eight still, so we need to keep winning and take each game as it comes.
>
‘‘We’ve got the Roosters this week and they’re playing for their pride. That’s a dangerous team to be playing against.’’
>
The last-placed Roosters will host the Tigers at the SFS on Sunday and Farah said people who thought this would be an easier game for the Tigers didn’t see the Roosters beat Newcastle last weekend.
>
‘‘I thought they were awesome against the Knights,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s going to be a tough one for us. They don’t want to run last, they’re playing for their coach, Brad Fittler, they’re playing for ‘Fitzy’ [Craig Fitzgibbon], who’s going overseas at the end of the year, and they’re playing to impress Brian Smith as well for next year.
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‘‘So they’ve got plenty of reasons to play well.’’
watmough was fuming they lost that game n couldnt hack it.
everything went his sides way n yet we still held on 4 a win.
no penalties for almost the 3/4's of the game n manly all over us in the ruck n we won the game in 9mins midway thru the 1st 1/2.
the final 15mins we defended n scrambled enough to win the game.
no luck. just guts n determination.
go the tigers. watmough, hasler n the rest of manly can burn!!!
everything went his sides way n yet we still held on 4 a win.
no penalties for almost the 3/4's of the game n manly all over us in the ruck n we won the game in 9mins midway thru the 1st 1/2.
the final 15mins we defended n scrambled enough to win the game.
no luck. just guts n determination.
go the tigers. watmough, hasler n the rest of manly can burn!!!
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