Your Joking Aren't You?, The Amount Of Errors He Made In That Match And He Comes Away With A 7...

MCGUIRE?????

Yes. He made a number of errors tonight.

Peacock was marked down because of his sin binning. Senior was a bit quiet. Did Burgess come on after his injury?

Senior was better than a 6. He made loads of yards down that side and his defence was solid as usual.

Not impressed with senior at all last night. watkins was lively and looking forward to seeing what he can do in the season. Smithy was solid, Hall no complaints,Donald good try solid performance, Sinfield No complaints, Mcguire few shaky moments early on but found his feet, Kylie impressive powerful display, Diskin No complaints, Peacock Nice PUNCH, JJB some good runs solid as usual, Ali his usual self exciting to watch, Ablett just glad to see him not at centre, Kirke no comlaints, Allen out of depth, Mcshane lively, Burgess No complaints.

He gave him a 7 because he is Danny McGuire, some people think he is perfect. They only notice when he is doing usual supporting the runner, they often miss the poor decision making he makes quite often in defence.

elbow, a few of them

Whereas you appear to have failed to notice how instrumental he was in creating our opening try. He made a couple of errors, was rusty but was still our mean creative force and looked dangerous with ball in hand.

I wouldn't go that far vinny.


He is in my opinion a lot more than just a support player or a try poacher.
He creates a lot of doubt within the defence and is more creative than people give him credit for,ok he made a couple of errors early on but afterall it is his first game,the start of a season and he did a lot more than make a couple of mistakes.

anyone know what upset Mr Peacock?

Couldn't really see anything on the Sky replay?

What I thought it could have been was a sneaky tactic by Bryant to try and win the scrum against the head by holding Peacock.

when he came off he was still keyed up he never sat down ,someone must have been really winding him up

When the initial wrestling starts as they face up peek put his hand in peacocks face to shove him and before he knew it it was windmill season


As a side note having watched the game on sky there are little niggles throughout the game between peacock,peek,bryant and discko.

IIRC it was our head and feed at the scrum so as open side prop Peacock was entitled to the outside head and arm.

The Celtic player was taking liberties and paid the price as per the PFU rules...

think he got away with it once (winning a strick against the head) which will have defo rubbed JP the wrong way.......someone needs to tell the aussies or this might be a regular occurance.

Celtic player said ''Jamie you got real bad BO''

It snowballed from that point.

Personally thought Kylie was worth a 7 and would have given Ali 8. Other than that pretty fair assessment.

i was impressed with ryan hall but thought donald didn't look comfortable on the right hand side

What gave you that impression tad??

because i said so!

he was great with senior on the left last couple of years and i can't see the sense in splitting a good pairing. perhaps bluey didn't want two youngsters together

I agree on that one, strange decision. Suppose they are going to use Hall, Smith & Donald rather than just two out of the three.

That's good enough for me


Bluey did say during his interview(at the fans day)that he wanted to even out the experience.
I'm sure the combo with smith/watkins will work in the long run scotty is a quality player and i'm sure he'll adapt.

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He is keeping Manly guessing..

Perfectly rational decision. He wants Donald to shore up the right hand side defence which was a glaring weakness last year.