: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:01 pm  

If we hadn’t have come out of the changing rooms eight minutes late for the second half it might have been a different sorty.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:14 pm  

No shame in being beaten by Manly. But I suspect Haslers team talk might have included - maim Burrow (Watmough did a class job at that - should he have remained on the pitch let alone be man of the match!) & wind Peacock up to get him sinbinned. We certainly missed Peacock more than they missed Perry(?).

There start to the second-half was awesome though.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:15 pm  

a few points, bearing in mind i have not seen the game on sky + yet.

1- donald looked far more effective when he played on the left for me.looks wasted on the right.

2- we need a right centre. manly hammered us there.ablett is a decent stop gap and watkins has a great future but we looked very,very vunerable there.
fair enough we won't meet anyone of manlys class again this season but it's still a weak link for me.

3-i'm not sure we were that poor.manly were awesome and full credit to them. well deserved winners

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:50 pm  

Manly were excellent. No complaints from me about it at all. Orford and Whatmough were excellent, as were their 2 props.
The semi- frustrating thing for me was that once we started attacking them at abit of pace, and moving it quickly left, we caused them all sorts of problems.
Lauitiiti for me went from a 4/10 first half to an 8/10 second half. Senior was excellent, and Lee Smith was our MOTM (again) by a mile.
McGuire is frustrating at the moment, we know that there's nobody to organise next to him, and he's lacking support in the creative side, but in the last 10 minutes he started to show some invention. Before that he just shipped the simple ball, or took the tackle. When he's got Burrow and Webb around him is when we'll see the best of him.
Good game of RL though, alot of whistle from the ref but I think I agreed with most of it.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:52 pm  

Given that 9 minutes into the second half, it looked like we could have had 40+ points scored against us, at least we showed some pride for the rest of the second half.

No complaints tonight - the better side won.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:58 pm  

Smith was outstanding and Senior showed true class (I’ve almost surprised myself saying that) – god knows how we’d have done if there was a winger outside him.

It would have been a much closer game if we’d not had a little tem minute nap after the whistle blew fro the second half.

But got to agree with tad – it was our right side that was vulnerable tonight.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:58 pm  

Other than what I can only describe as a brain fart in the first 10 mins of the second half by Rhinos we would / could have beaten Manly. I really enjoyed the game and feel that the Superleague is not a million miles away from the NRL as people would have us believe. Well done Rhinos!

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:59 am  

did stuart play good

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:02 am  

fredie wrote:

did stuart play good

So despite your english ISP address you are a manly fan now... Is it relayed?

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:10 am  

I always fancied Manly to win, they were outstanding at times and Leeds could not live with them. Leeds needed to play with more width but they miss Webb and Burrow in that area, still you came back at them and gave them a run for their money.