Round 4 2013 SEA EAGLES V WESTS TIGERS

[TITAN PETE]

SEA EAGLES V WESTS TIGERS - 28TH MARCH, 8:05PM, BLUETONGUE STADIUM | #NRLMANWST

Sea Eagles
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Coach: Geoff Toovey

Wests Tigers
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Coach: Mick Potter

[DIEHARD]

[TITAN PETE]

Fantastic win by the Eagles 26-0 with the Tigers having more of the ball throughout the match.

More importantly shows how well the Titans played last week, lets hope they play the same on Sunday

[TITAN PETE]

Manly shut out Wests Tigers 26-0 in NRL
By Steve Jancetic
AAP
Thu 28th March,
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Manly rewrote the definition of a scrappy NRL win, as they poured on the points late to shut out a poor Wests Tigers 26-0 on Thursday night at Bluetongue Stadium.

In a match played in steady drizzle on the NSW central coast, the Sea Eagles overcame a horrendous opening in which they failed to get out of their own 30-metre zone to run out five tries to nil winners - winger David Williams finishing with a double.

For a large portion of the match, it looked like neither team was going to score given their lack of ball control, Manly completing just seven of 18 sets in the opening half.

So bad was Manly's handling that even one of the home side's cheerleaders had to complete her halftime routine minus her pom-poms after dropping them early in the set.

Yet somehow the Sea Eagles took a 4-0 lead to the break when, on just their second venture into the Tigers' half, Daly Cherry-Evans kicked for the corner - James Tedesco spilling the ball for Tom Symonds to dive on it after 28 minutes.

It could have been a greater lead too had Brenton Lawrence not ignored a flying - and unmarked - Brett Stewart in support just before the break.

Nothing was going right for the Tigers, an early miss of a simple penalty goal attempt by Benji Marshall - after Justin Horo and Lawrence had been put on report for a dangerous throw - summing up their half.

Whether it was by design or a sign of the Tigers' play, Robbie Farah was benched with eight minutes remaining in the half, the recently re-signed skipper seemingly far from pleased with the move.

By the time he returned seven minutes after the restart, the Sea Eagles were ahead 14-0.

Williams crossed twice early in the second half, with his first coming off a forward pass which couldn't be ruled on by the video referee.

Twice, the Tigers found themselves over the tryline as they searched for a reply but, twice, they were called back for obstruction offences, which also denied Cherry-Evans a four-pointer for the Sea Eagles.

With the game gone, Cherry-Evans then scored a miraculous try which featured more soccer than rugby league - the Sea Eagles going from their own in-goal to the other tryline in a bizarre sequence of events before Steve Matai scored on the bell.

[Tamwelg]

Good to see BJ have a blinder.

[C-Whiz]

Its a bit hard to take Tigers seriosuly after tonights debacle.

Manly did their best to gift the Tigers a win in the first half, dropping the ball on about their first 6 sets or more, and not even looking like they were every going to get out of their own half.

How the Tigers didn't get any points is beyond me, including Benji missing from almost right in front.