Dont think we are in any position to golat at the minute.

I had a feeling Manly would win this one, they are a very classy outfit. Leeds made a good fist of it though. I shudder to think what Manly would do to us right now. They would probably put on a hundred.

Glenn Hall I believe it was.

I think we need to put together an RAB committee to kidnap Hasler.

I know. I'm not gloating. Just having a little harmless fun.



What would we give to be reaching WCC finals at the moment...

It was the poster as a Wigan fan and to his/her credit they have been saying the same thing now for a while.

Nah, I put it down to Manly being the better team on the night



I dont think anyone could have lived with them in that 10 minute period just after half time.

Though Jamie Lyon was their weak link though. When was the last time you saw Keith Senior make easy yards like that

Yeah, Leeds going down fighting was the big story of that game. Pretty craven 'this way we should sell more copies' editing there.

Or, how about e) we can't win expect to everything, Manly showed how wide the skills gulf between the NRL and SL still is



Naturally I'm disappointed but as a Leeds fan of nearly 20 years I've plenty of experience of them losing games big and small so it doesn't affect me too much

i think a lot of the nrl teams have a long way to go in catching manly too

Well said. I missed my first WCC for a few years as I was working in the evening, and was pretty sick about that, as this Manly team are indisputably amongst the ranks of the best there's ever been, and such teams deserve to be watched at any opportunity.

Phil Clarke (for it was he) pulled out the 2008 stats showing that, on average, it's the 3rd quarter when Manly come out and pulverize teams, and boy didn't they just. Nobody could have lived with that, and it is no disgrace to Leeds that they were on the receiving end. It's one thing knowing what they are likely to do, but quite another doing something about it.

Manly have a rare blend of players and as a team, are currently head and shoulders above anything else in the game. I thought it was a treat to watch.

Good to see you're back too FA.

Just shows how good Manly are, when they turned it on, they were unstopable against one of the best defences in SL, shows the gulf between the 2 leagues.

I would love to have watmough in our team he is absolute class, was the best player on the pitch, and looks to have everything in his game.

very poor leeds , very good Manly

You missed the link!

Certainly since the reformation of the competition in 2000, it knocked the Roosters demolition of Saints in 2003 off of the second best performance in the competition.

Neither team could have lived with the Bulls performance in 2005.

A bit tough that one seeing as we weren't involved.

Assuming you meant 2006, I'm not sure I agree. Manly were surely a class apart from anything we have seen in the WCC, especially in that third quarter before they relaxed a little too much?

Shouldn't 2002 be classed as the best win by any club considering the Newcastle side contained the supposedly greatest player ever in Andrew Johns.

Wish I could agree, but realistically and without taking anything away from a superb Bulls performance in shocking conditions I don't think so. Regardless of who their personnel were, the Knights looked nothing like as prepared, professional and determined as Manly did, IMO.

I guess we'll never know though, because had Leeds been more effective at containing Manly then obviously they would not have looked as good. So its hard to compare directly, isn't it?

Manly won fair and square, the best team on the night, and arguably one of the best RL teams in a long time. Orford was amazing as was Stewart.

menzie's was missing aswell

was it the nrl style

Be quiet?

stewart is a steelers dragon junior

I can't find that on the T&A website is my computer broken?