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Message: [QUOTE="Twiztid, post: 2445222, member: 2144"] Frankly we didn't play to the conditions. For NYC it was extremely windy and heavy rain so the ground would have been extremely heavy. The rain did slow down but the wind was still up for the first grade game. To the game itself we just didn't produce. In that first half we handled Manly pretty well. Running into the wind and with the wet track we just looked exhausted by half time. We couldn't really use a high kicking game in that first half so had to relay on low driving kicks for field position. For an example DCE kicked from their 30 metres trying for a 40/20 and the wind grabbed it and took it dead. In that 2nd half we again didn't use the wind to our advantage. We had lapses of letting them get metres and then the next set not giving them much at all. But the biggest issue was just their first 2-3 tries were scored basically all the same way and by the Bennett pet play move with the sweeping fullback. The 2nd last try was terrible defence from King, he always back pedals against good players and keeps getting beaten. Lyon was doing it all night again. The last try was just soft and showed they had given up. Manly used their weapons better than us. Tony Williams didn't have a great deal of ball but he did have some very strong runs at Reynolds and Farrell even though I thought Farrell handled him pretty well considering. He was just eating the metres with 3 guys trying to bring him down. Taylor never really had any good ball to break weak lines and was sort of expected to do it himself but he never could. I am not sure who came in for Manly in #19 (Dean Whare??) he was killing us with his amazing speed at times. I find our centres are not the fastest in the league and also don't run as half as hard as some others do. I also didn't like how Maguire used Luke and Peats it just didn't work today. Sutton wasn't on like he had been and Reynolds kicking game is one of our best weapons but in that 2nd half when we had the wind behind us, I didn't think we used it enough. He tried a kick to Evo but the wind took it too far away from Evo. Plus our mistakes on the 50 really hurt us making any good attacking chances almost impossible. I am happy with some things in the performance in the conditions but disappointed in our defence at times. If the wind wasn't there and it was just raining it would have been a completely different game. Manly just outplayed but we held on for a good 70 mins but those late soft tries blow the score out to make it look worse. Sorry I sort of going everywhere there as I try to recall the game. [/QUOTE]

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