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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3670930, member: 1899"] Canterbury blew it. After that Skelton try, they just started to ease up and failed to put the Sea Eagles to the sword. Suddenly players were too busy sucking in the big ones and didn't want to take carries. Then players started making lazy errors and it just left the door ajar for Manly. To the Sea Eagles credit, they took their chances. That was a lovely set play for Cherry-Evans try and as you pointed out Freaky, Seibold has a few of them up his sleeve - that set play for Oates was one of my favourite things he ever came up with at the Broncos. Then the Koula try was special. I don't think there was anything rehearsed about it, that was just Cherry-Evans with his ingenuity, spotting something in the defensive line and looking to exploit it with one of the best strike weapons in the game. Turbo was clearly playing hurt and was well below his usual best but even then the class of the man to set that play in motion can't be understated. Brilliant work and Koula on one of his biggest stages stepped up and did something we've been waiting years for him to produce. Still, it felt like Canterbury's afternoon. It was just when the game was there to be won, it was Cherry-Evans and Trbojevic who stood up. Meanwhile Burton and Mahoney couldn't pull the trigger when they had the opportunity. Crichton also came up with that miss and seemed very subdued after he seemingly injured his shoulder - I wonder if anything more would come out of that. As disappointing as it is for the Bulldogs, they're a team on the rise and this should only just be the beginning for them. On the other hand, I'm not sure if I can say the same for Manly, they truly are the Jeckyll and Hyde of the competitions. Wins against the Storm and Panthers but also a humiliating loss to the Tigers - they can only rely on Cherry-Evans and Turbo for so long and they can only take them so far. [/QUOTE]

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