austin71
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Manly and dominance in the same sentence.
Is it April Fools Day?
PRE-GAME Round 10 - Sea Eagles vs Broncos
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Is it April Fools Day?
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GCBRONCO
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Manly putting an absolute clinic on Souths.
Turbo bros are special players
Turbo bros are special players
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Bunnies are garbage but this kind of performance is what most were expecting from broncos last week
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Not just Walker and Uate and their right hand side, but also Lawrence and Tapau, in fact the whole team. Manly's offloading is seriously good. This will be one very tough assignment for our defence in wrapping up the ball.
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It will be tough, but then again Rabbitohs were absolute garbage tonight so that contributed to Manly's performance quite a bit.
They won't have that same luxury with us.
They won't have that same luxury with us.
It won't be easy but I believe, the broncos have a lot more upside in them, even without hunt. We haven't quite put it together for the 80 minutes but are still winning. Letting our opponents back into the game has been the main problem, especially in the second half. I admired what macca was trying to do with his kicks, even if the execution was aweful. We have to try and "manage" the game and where we play it. One option would be to allow Boyd to do some long kicks. He, of all people would know when the players need a rest, and when to throw the throttle up, and go for the jugular.
To me its the difference between putting teams to the sword and scraping through at the end as we are want to do.
Its another option at least. I think the main problem we have in our kicking is not our skill but where we are trying to do it. A lot of times, I noticed halves trapped on the sideline, trying to put some low percentage bomb or punt, whilst defenders knowing there was nowhere for him to go were breathing down his neck. A bit more direction in plays leading up to the 5th tackle wouldnt go astray. The halves need to give macca or whoever is at dummy half a clear target for a pass on the 5th and stand deep enough to not have to rush their kicks, or at least have a kicker who is and knows it's his job to do just that. Ive seen maguire, billet, thaiday and other forwards end up punting or bombing a ball to varying (though mostly bad) effect. Its something the best teams rarely do, if ever.
To me its the difference between putting teams to the sword and scraping through at the end as we are want to do.
Its another option at least. I think the main problem we have in our kicking is not our skill but where we are trying to do it. A lot of times, I noticed halves trapped on the sideline, trying to put some low percentage bomb or punt, whilst defenders knowing there was nowhere for him to go were breathing down his neck. A bit more direction in plays leading up to the 5th tackle wouldnt go astray. The halves need to give macca or whoever is at dummy half a clear target for a pass on the 5th and stand deep enough to not have to rush their kicks, or at least have a kicker who is and knows it's his job to do just that. Ive seen maguire, billet, thaiday and other forwards end up punting or bombing a ball to varying (though mostly bad) effect. Its something the best teams rarely do, if ever.
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I'm pretty confident. Manly probably won't even get off the bus. No Roberts concerns me but all that does is give Mead a chance at redemption
