A pretty poor performance all round. Not sure that anyone o nthe field played to there usual standard. A few key observations:
1. With mosses out we are lacking a long kicking game. Whoever said jai field can kick is dreaming. We also lacked any organisation. Jai field went missing after the first 15 mins and it seemed to be left to brown to call the shots. Brown clearly plays better when he can chime in and out and doesn't have to be the main playmates which is understandable at his age.
2. Gennings whilst he give it his all just isn't up to the standard of first grade. That should be the last roll of the dice for him in the 17.
3.Our full strength side cant come quick enough. We scraped through last week and this week we were dismal. Hopefully we get some players back and don't fall into a bad trend
The team in general looked unenthusiastic. 10 minute ls to go and 2 tries down and still taking an eternity to get to their feet.
Next week will show just how far Parramatta have come. They will either bounce back or slump back to the Parramatta we all know so well.
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My observation of the game:
1. Manly turned up and needed to win to stay in the hunt and Parra didn't, possibly thinking we could cruise to a win.
2. I thought G Jennings was one of our best apart from the first error.
3. How dumb was Dez taking Levi off for so long.
4. How dumb were Parra not attacking the left edge enough.
5. Our middle was very soft early on reminiscent of 2018 and parts of 2019. In the first 20 minutes it looked like it would be 50 nil to manly and I had flashbacks of round 2 a couple of years back at Brookie. But thankfully we are a different team in 2020.
With Moses back next week surely we'll play with more structure and utilise our edges more effectively plus have better kicking options.
Matto will stiffen up our defence and Evans will give us better go forward when Paulo and RCG are rested.
Fox sports saying Sivo should be ok for next round.
We played like absolute shite tonight and just lost. I think we'll get back on track in the next week or two.