Manly v Cows - In game

This game is so hard to predict its not funny.....probably the hardest game of the year......

Cowboys last week was smoke and mirrors...To say every drop of luck went there way in the opening 20 mins last is an understatement.

- Bowen misses a bomb, JT tries to bat it back dead in goal, mis taps it, goes straight to Morgan who runs it out.

- Beale goes to catch a simple kick, slips over on nothing and drops it.

- Graham going over the touch line, throws a Hail Mary and Bowen is there waiting...

After that 20 mins, that was the ball game....Also, the broncos were mighty awful...pathetic actually.

Now Manly, how fit really is Lyon? Shane Watson had a calf injury and he was out for 6 weeks...I have seen many many athletes get calf injuries and they are out for a long time and Lyon recovers in 1 week?

More concerning for Manly is the absence of Matai....That left edge in defense looks very very vulnerable....Whare and Tafua out that side? Thurston and Bowen with Tate might run a muck out there......

The cows do offer some value.....How fit Lyon really is the issue here....

Agree with what you say and then to add to all that the cows have huge revenege angle in this match up after losing out lsat year and the 8-6 loss at home not so long ago and to add to all that they will want to make a huige point and prove they can win away from North QLD.

Calf injuries are a box. Can't see how Lyon is effective unless he along with the NRL was telling us fibs last week regarding the extent of his injury in an attempted TAB conspiracy.

Lyon and Snake (Stewart) are the glue that hold that backline together. The Manly wingers are shithouse...

killer lyon confirmed to play

If you are a cows backer, u might be worried as to what TRex might do to Morgan......

Lyon will be ineffective and what Rostos says is true the cows will attack that other edge and should have a field day down there

calf injuries differ in severity

Tafua? The Dogs made him look like an immortal last week....based on that game, he should be paid $5.5 mill a year...no one could stop him..

Defensively however, he has some issues......The only 2 losses the eagles had in the last 8 weeks were against the dogs...

I was on Manly when they beat the Cows and the cows made plenty of breaks up the middle but they had very veru poor handling...

Can cows win in Sydney?

Looks like a sellout...

NRL needs a change of scenery in the finals surely. Sick of seeing Manly vs Melbourne or vice versa...

now that my pussies are out of finals
It's NRL for me

Took Cowboys in this one...just like a team that' in better form at the right time of the year

Cows the popular choice it would seem...

Manly for me jamie lyon half fit better then no jamie lyon

Damn this is a hard game to choose

Concerned at the amount of Cowboy love spreading across the internets...

manly is the play boys

Rostos jamie has been going to play all week trust me he is ready to roll

Emkee you f*cked mate cowboys. get knocked out tonight

YODA

This is a cows backing thread JJ's

As bad as Manly were last week, missing Lyon for most of the game....dont forget, if matai executes a simple 2 on 1 right at the end, Manly draw level.......against a good Dogs team.......

Matai is not playing tonight though...

There was a bigger crowd at Bunnies/Chooks during the regular season...

so much overthinking here. cowboys are shit on the road, slipped past a shit broncos team now face manly who nearly beat the best team in the comp without their most key player for most of the game

The point is, as bad as manly were last week, they should have probably won.....