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Now that the dust has settled
Defense - Manly scored 31 points, which on the surface looks very bad, but upon closer inspection it is a little bit fools gold for Manly and a huge credit for our D which CC is renowned for.
Manly scored 1 try where DCE kicked it, which deflected off a dogs player then turbo kicked it again and fell over the line with the ball. I do not care what anyone says that was a fluky try more than bad defense from us.
Manly scored another try where we bobbled it and DCE kicked and kicked it again. Again, another lucky try for Manly and says nothing about our defense.
Manly then scored off an intercept.
Thats 18 of the 31 that lets face it, had nothing to do with our D and more about luck than anything else.
Manly scored another try where we had a player in the bin. Yes, you should defend with 12 men but under the six again rule it is very very hard to defend with 12 men.
That leaves us with the try where the Manly player basically ran through us from 60 out. By that stage, we were out of gas but that was a very very poor effort.
At the end of the day, Manly scored 18 points from LUCK. I would actually give our defense an 8.5 out of 10 considering how much ball we had in that heat.
We defended pretty much everything they threw at us.
Offense.
Yes, speaking of luck, our try was also nothing but luck. A grubber that hits the posts and lands in Mahoney's hands who barely got it down.
Apart from that, we did not even look like scoring.
This is an absolute shambolic mess and reminds me of the Barrett era.
As has been mentioned several times, Flannagan is simply not a first grade half back. He looks completely lost. Has no game management skills, has not creativity, very average kicking game. He has had 2 years to have a go and has pretty much become worse.
This is alarming because look at Lachlan Ilias tonight. I mean WOW he was outstanding. He has improved since last season.
How come Flanagan cannot improve? He simply does not have it.
Burton. Again, he has no creativity, no pass. Only has a bomb and a left foot step but it seems the league has now caught on to that.
How come he has not worked on his game?
The last 2 weeks were real alarm bells. He looked like he did not want to be there.
Perham looks good on his feet. Safe under the high ball but he to cannot create for others. Has no pass on him.
Mahoney looked outstanding and the most threatening. There is some light at the end of the tunnel with him.
The most alarming thing for me is, it just looks like the halves did not develop in the off season. No coaching, no structure. They look absolutely lost and no one knows what to do, what there role is.
I am prepared to give it a few more weeks where we get more even possession, can apply pressure etc.
There is no smarts in the halves. We were down to 12 ONLY Mahoney showed he is THINKING where he kicked it out so the team can catch there breath and kill some clock.
Yet for some reason when a set later we tried to throw a miracle pass under extreme pressure in our own 30 and we lost it.
It shows that there is no game management, no plan, no purpose, just try and make it up as it comes.
The offense is a 1 out of 10.
If we can continue to defend the way we did today we will be in a lot of games but i have no idea where our points are going to come from.
Defense - Manly scored 31 points, which on the surface looks very bad, but upon closer inspection it is a little bit fools gold for Manly and a huge credit for our D which CC is renowned for.
Manly scored 1 try where DCE kicked it, which deflected off a dogs player then turbo kicked it again and fell over the line with the ball. I do not care what anyone says that was a fluky try more than bad defense from us.
Manly scored another try where we bobbled it and DCE kicked and kicked it again. Again, another lucky try for Manly and says nothing about our defense.
Manly then scored off an intercept.
Thats 18 of the 31 that lets face it, had nothing to do with our D and more about luck than anything else.
Manly scored another try where we had a player in the bin. Yes, you should defend with 12 men but under the six again rule it is very very hard to defend with 12 men.
That leaves us with the try where the Manly player basically ran through us from 60 out. By that stage, we were out of gas but that was a very very poor effort.
At the end of the day, Manly scored 18 points from LUCK. I would actually give our defense an 8.5 out of 10 considering how much ball we had in that heat.
We defended pretty much everything they threw at us.
Offense.
Yes, speaking of luck, our try was also nothing but luck. A grubber that hits the posts and lands in Mahoney's hands who barely got it down.
Apart from that, we did not even look like scoring.
This is an absolute shambolic mess and reminds me of the Barrett era.
As has been mentioned several times, Flannagan is simply not a first grade half back. He looks completely lost. Has no game management skills, has not creativity, very average kicking game. He has had 2 years to have a go and has pretty much become worse.
This is alarming because look at Lachlan Ilias tonight. I mean WOW he was outstanding. He has improved since last season.
How come Flanagan cannot improve? He simply does not have it.
Burton. Again, he has no creativity, no pass. Only has a bomb and a left foot step but it seems the league has now caught on to that.
How come he has not worked on his game?
The last 2 weeks were real alarm bells. He looked like he did not want to be there.
Perham looks good on his feet. Safe under the high ball but he to cannot create for others. Has no pass on him.
Mahoney looked outstanding and the most threatening. There is some light at the end of the tunnel with him.
The most alarming thing for me is, it just looks like the halves did not develop in the off season. No coaching, no structure. They look absolutely lost and no one knows what to do, what there role is.
I am prepared to give it a few more weeks where we get more even possession, can apply pressure etc.
There is no smarts in the halves. We were down to 12 ONLY Mahoney showed he is THINKING where he kicked it out so the team can catch there breath and kill some clock.
Yet for some reason when a set later we tried to throw a miracle pass under extreme pressure in our own 30 and we lost it.
It shows that there is no game management, no plan, no purpose, just try and make it up as it comes.
The offense is a 1 out of 10.
If we can continue to defend the way we did today we will be in a lot of games but i have no idea where our points are going to come from.
