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By STEVE MASCORD MANLY coach Geoff Toovey said overtime should be scrapped because draws are a fair result – but also argued the Monday Night Football deadlock with Melbourne was completely unfair. Toovey was fuming after the epic 10-10 AAMI Park result, which came after a 79th minute Cameron Smith penalty goal levelled the ledger […]
By STEVE MASCORD MANLY’s woes after last night’s bruising loss to Sydney Roosters have been compounded by the news that co-captain Jason King could miss the rest of the season. Despite having a one-man advantage over Sydney Roosters for the final 10 minutes of Monday Night Football at Brookvale Oval, the Sea Eagles crashed to […]
By STEVE MASCORD WHEN it comes to teasing team-mates, little is usually off-limits in the NRL. But Manly players last week drew the line at geeing up Daly Cherry Evans over the line-dropout that cost them the match against Gold Coast. And the Sea Eagles halfback rewarded their tact with an irresistible performance in the […]
By STEVE MASCORD AFTER being carried off in his 250th game on a medicab after friend Richie Fa’aoso’s shoulder charge knocked him out, Gold Coast lock Ashley Harrison last night said: “He got me from a place where couldn’t see it coming.” Manly replacement Fa’aoso admitted he forgot about the new ban on shoulder charges when […]
By STEVE MASCORD MANLY players have revealed how Immortal Andrew Johns has overhauled the attacking play of halves Daly Cherry Evans and Keiran Foran for 2013. It was a feature of the Sea Eagles’ 22-14 win over Brisbane on Friday night that the playmakers were often next to each other rather than patrolling different sides […]
By STEVE MASCORD MANLY coach Geoff Toovey and captain Jamie Lyon last night each said they were “not worried” about the sudden escalation in the impact of ASADA’s investigation into NRL drug use. The Sea Eagles, one of six clubs mentioned the landmark report compiled by the Australian Crime Commission, beat Brisbane 22-14 in the […]
By STEVE MASCORD IF events at Cronulla last night were supposed to spook the other NRL teams named in ASADA’s Doping report, then clearly no-one told Manly about events at Cronulla. The Sea Eagles are one of six NRL teams mentioned in the report , which caused its first round of havoc some two hours […]
By STEVE MASCORD THIS is March, which means Bondi Beat again has to make a fool of itself with a bunch of predictions for the forthcoming National Rugby League season. Last year we listed Five Things That Could Go Wrong in 2012. Did the Independent Commission isolate Australia internationally? Well, the green-and-golds refused to play […]
By STEVE MASCORD ON the surface of it, the current plight of the Newcastle Knights proves that the NRL and Super League are not that far removed from each other. Soft rock kings Dire Straits are in Salford and Newcastle? No, it’s the other way around. We Australians like to think we’re flying, with our […]
