Round 7: Manly Sea Eagles vs Gold Coast Titans

[Coaster]

Prince was outstanding tonight. As Ryan said its amazing how different he looks with space.

[matti]

Zilly did something yay! i can't wait till ryan is back, idris and ryan is like the bash brothers out of mighty ducks

[travis burch]

i have never been so keen to log on and check the forum... I watched the game in pub and saw the boys carve them up. But I really wanted to check and confirm that manly showed up and played- and we still won!

I'd rather see us play well than another team play poorly

[shamus]

it really did look like we flicked a switch didnt it.

i hope we can locate it each weekend.

We finally get another 5/8 who genuinely takes pressure off Prince, and Prince gets the space to rack up 3 try assists..... Go figure. Nah wait, must have been a fluke because Prince is way past it remember

I think the boys have been on the verge of this win for a few weeks now. They finally were able to compete for at least 70mins, and hung onto the ball and the opposition ball runners. Prince didn't play any better than he has been for the last few weeks, the difference was the support he had around him, and the space he was able to work with.

Tonight was reminiscent of 2010: Dominant forwards marching up the field, repeat sets and a variety of points that followed.
While I'm happy (and relieved) with the win, I'm kinda disappointed with the final 10 mins - They could stuck the knife in and twisted it, instead of pissing around with penalty shots and letting another try in.

Still a salvageable season if they can carry this momentum. With the current ladder congestion we're actually only 2 wins out of the top 4! I hope you negative ****s can shut the **** up for at least a week now.....

Prince needs to be dropped!......I am sure he made a mistake somewhere in that game and for the life of me Ryan.......I am gunna find it!

[matti]

one game does not change anything, if he can do that week in week out, i will be happy. His defence was still poor ...

[Mexican titan]

i have never been so keen to log on and check the forum... I watched the game in pub and saw the boys carve them up. But I really wanted to check and confirm that manly showed up and played- and we still won!

I'd rather see us play well than another team play poorly

Mate, Manly were terrible and definitely suffered a let down after the return to Brooky hype on Monday and the short turn around. But as I said on here early in the week even though Manly are my main team I was just sick of all the negativity around the Titans and was almost hoping they would win. It was great to see Sezer there and go well and lets just hope they can back that up.

[travis burch]

Manly were terrible and definitely suffered a let down after the return to Brooky hype on Monday and the short turn around.

I am happy to be upbeat... but I am sad to hear this.

It was hard to tell from where I was how Manly played.

[Mexican titan]

I am happy to be upbeat... but I am sad to hear this.

It was hard to tell from where I was how Manly played.

No mate be upbeat. It's not been a great start to the year on and off the field and even though I follow Manly as well as a Titanium member from year 1 I am really happy they won. Regardless of Manly's effort that win should put some confidence in the team.

[Chaos]

What a debut for Sezer!

First time I've seen him play and he didn't let anyone down.
Besides the try he scores from nothing...he had sharp passing skills and a nice kicking game to keep Manly under pressure.

It's about time Prince produced his 'show and go' with a short ball on the outside...Idris running the line was scary.
I enjoyed the uppercut to Lyons chin...showed the Titans wanted to win.
Harrison joined in later.

[shamus]

Fox Sport's Stats (NRL's are not up yet) say the following..

Srama...........45 tackles.............missed........... 0
Idris.............. 1 tackle...............missed............3.......Huh !
Prince............11 tackles (way to go Princey!)....missed...2... I don't mind those stats for Princey as he is a well known turnstile but he turned up to play tonight!

Hey Ryan......Got my reason to drop Prince....he missed 2!

[teke]

It's about time Prince produced his 'show and go' with a short ball on the outside...Idris running the line was scary.

Idris line running was good until he busted through, he looked like an injured elephant running in to score

[Chaos]

Fox Sport's Stats (NRL's are not up yet) say the following..

Srama...........45 tackles.............missed........... 0
Idris.............. 1 tackle...............missed............3.......Huh !
Prince............11 tackles (way to go Princey!)....missed...2... I don't mind those stats for Princey as he is a well known turnstile but he turned up to play tonight!

Hey Ryan......Got my reason to drop Prince....he missed 2!

If you choose a team on tackle stats, you'd have 13 boring Hindmarshes and no football.

[Chaos]

Idris line running was good until he busted through, he looked like an injured elephant running in to score

I'd rather tackle a fit kangaroo, then an injured elephant

[shamus]

If you choose a team on tackle stats, you'd have 13 boring Hindmarshes and no football.

Nothing boring about Hindmarsh.......Without him Parramatta would be on the bottom of the table!

Hmm.........wait a minute!

[shamus]

Oh.....and I would have Hindmarsh on my team any day of the week..