{"id":49815,"date":"2021-03-26T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49815"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:57:13","slug":"shambles-manly-roasted-and-winless-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49815","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Shambles&#039; Manly roasted and winless in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manly Sea Eagles have gone winless in their first three matches this season <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-live-scores-2021-dragons-sea-eagles-rabbitohs-roosters-start-time-results-news-round-3\/f551d850-f8cb-4f1e-908e-3853fa26178a\" title=\"after succumbing to a confident St George Illawarra outfit in Wollongong.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">after succumbing to a confident St George Illawarra outfit in Wollongong.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having bagged their <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/cowboys-dragons-todd-payten-criticism-of-scared-confused-team\/5d5c39ae-0328-4146-b7b1-431696184204\" title=\"first win of coach Anthony Griffin&#x27;s reign last week against the Cowboys,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">first win of coach Anthony Griffin&#x27;s reign last week against the Cowboys,<\/a> the Red V went back-to-back as they kept a cool head to box-out Manly in a 38-12 display.<\/p>\n<p>Doubles to Zac Lomax and Matt Dufty kept the points ticking on the scoreboard, but it was the confidence of skipper Ben Hunt that shone through once more, taking home a bag of assists in his third game back with the captain&#x27;s arm-band.<\/p>\n<p>For Hasler&#x27;s Manly, it&#x27;s a bleak picture. The absence of Tom Trbojevic is undoubtedly causing issues all over the park, but it&#x27;s the less than impressive form from skipper Daly Cherry-Evans which should have Silvertails fans more concerned.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"05e26eda-73bf-4b56-aced-dc61fdd4d64b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/05e26eda-73bf-4b56-aced-dc61fdd4d64b\" alt=\"Manly fall to the Dragons in Wollongong. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite holding a sizeable amount of possession, Manly looked clueless on their fifth tackle options, frequently stuttering on the crucial final play to leave their hard work fruitless.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think Manly&#x27;s game is a shambles \u2013 with and without the football,&quot; NRL great Cooper Cronk said on Fox League.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They are leaking down their right, the attack of the Dragons went through at will. They had 10 errors and 23 play the balls in the Dragons&#x27; 20m (in the first half) and haven&#x27;t come up with much except the Dufty knock-on try (that led to Garrick&#x27;s try).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think it&#x27;s more about Manly and what they are not doing.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We asked Corey Norman before the game where he was going to pick apart Manly and he said they were off down their right edge.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He steps up breaks the line himself, then Tariq Sims for Dufty&#x27;s try, Ben Hunt goes to Jack Bird down that same edge. The try Manly scored was through luck and an error.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6244384816001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/03\/350853\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Lomax flies high\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckmpznqqx002h0hpdpz8pdzwv\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE TO COME.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Manly Sea Eagles have gone winless in their first three matches this season after succumbing to a confident St George Illawarra outfit in Wollongong. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49815\" title=\"&#039;Shambles&#039; Manly roasted and winless in 2021\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49817,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions\/49817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}