Terrible defending. No one stayed alive for a pass inside they had two against zero waiting our guys just switched off thinking Graham would score. Copley did well but no one else helped.
Storm just too strong and experienced. Souths have played very foolishly, poor discipline. You can't hand Cronk the ball in your own half and get away with it.
Manly looked flat for 80 minutes. They were full of anger early and some strange 50/50's went there way in the first 20 minutes to give them cheap territory but they just never looked likely. Their halves were awful and as soon as Lyon went off they just had no answers, you just don't realise...
I think by far Manly's biggest and only obvious weakness is Steve Matai's defence against physically strong centres. The only place we ever look dangerous against Manly is Hodges on Matai, a month ago he got pushed off easily about 10 times and it isn't an isolated occurence I recall Inglis...
The Brownlow has a lot of issues as well due to Key Defenders and Key Forwards never winning the award despite some alltime legends playing those positions (Tony Lockett in 1987 or so was the last to do it) simply because they are on the end of free kicks both for and against so umpires don't...
The RLW player of the hear is the best award to showcase consistent performance as it is out of 10 so if your team goes great you cant unluckily miss out on votes due to 5 other guys having blinders and good players in crap teams dont get punished and the ratings system rewards both stats and...
We don't throw enough at sides as good as the Cowboys to make them "leak" that many points plus they didn't really push themselves today against another top 8 side away from home and won very easily.
Manly - They are cruising right now and will have too much class and experience for a finals-raw Dogs
Storm - Rabbits have looked awful everytime they have played a finals contender this year and this won't be different
Cowboys - They have too many points in them for us sadly
Raiders - The...
Yeah Blair has not looked at all the same player as the one that played for the Storm. I reckon Sika Manu will be very similarly poor for the Panthers next year coming out of the Storm system.
Cowboys scored 36 against a side that has been grinding and defending well all year and you got the feeling the Cowboys weren't really pumped they were just rolling through the 80 in second gear. I honestly cannot see us getting anywhere near this side whereas the Sharks don't score big numbers...