Im going to give a Wrap to Mcmanus, Yes Mcmanus. Mad Dog does NOTHING for him. never passes the ball,and leaves James to Defend two players. Not a good center. Centers these days need to draw and pass. Mad dog has done that like once this year.
A few things on todays game:
Well I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks what I currently think about Mad Dog's form over the last 2 seasons. That try he was directly responsible for (which turned out to be the matchwinner for the Roosters) was absolutely pathetic and was just one of the many faux pas he's made since re-signing with the Knights. Firstly, he passes an unnecessary pass to a player that wasn't expecting it (Bailey), then he gets heaps angry at Bailey for not catching the ball properly and knocking on (when it was his crap pass in the first place). Then the criminal part: After all the great defense the Knights did on the Roosters and the pressure they put on Anasta on 5th tackle, MacDougall was in the best position of all the Knights players to catch the bomb (as was said by the commentators on Fox and KO-FM). But, what does he do? He turns his back on the ball, doesn't even know where the ball is, AND, takes out a Roosters player instead!!!!!!!! I mean, when I saw that live, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that, because it was shocking football to the nth-degree. That was pure Under 8's stuff right there. And it turned out to be the turning point. Sure, the Knights had many chances in the last 10 mins, but in the context of the match, at the time in the 65th min, nothing was happening, the Knights were cruising along, playing safe, and then it all started with a no look pass.
Secondly, the Fox Commentators: I fully 100% agree with some of the comments made about them. Gary Freeman (who use to play for Roosters) should just be on camera, wearing a Roosters jersey. Deadset, every single bit of brilliance the Knights did was classified as a 'fluke', whereas the Roosters were classified as 'Brilliantly constructed". ROFL! Yes 'Whiz', we all know you're a closet Roosters fan, why don't you admit it? And this whole agenda of how brilliant Mitchell Pearce is?????? Get out! I know he's a good player, but to the God-like extent they've made him out to be, they've clearly propagated this agenda out of respect for their friend Wayne Pearce (who is a member of the Fox Commentary team, was in the crowd today, but wasn't commentating today after all the complaints probably made about him when calling Roosters games). You cannot look me in the eye and say that a lot of the bias on Fox isn't agenda-driven. I can literally name countless times and examples where this has happened. One of them was the Canberra/Wests Tigers game before Origin I. Before the game, there had been all of the talk that the Origin #7 jersey was up for grabs between Todd Carney and Mitchell Pearce (before Peter Wallace came into the scenario). Fairdinkum, throughout the whole game, Wayne Pearce was deliberately belittling all the good pieces of play that Todd Carney did in that game (which climaxed when Carney set up the match winning try for Canberra), as he clearly didn't want Carney to get the #7 jersey. Not also to mention that Pearce sounds like he's about to cry everytime he calls Raiders games, as he's clearly not over the 'painful' defeat he suffered at the hands of them in the 1989 GF.