Match Centre

PENALTY MANLY - Cowboys restart fails to go 10 metres

PENALTY MANLY - High tackle. DCE finds touch on halfway

A rubbish pass by the Cowboys in attacking position is intercepted by Walker.

Tom with a break and brilliant offload to DCE in traffic who can't get into space. Foran with a poor kick on the next play gifts the Cowboys a 7 tackle set

Condon drops the ball 30m from his own line

Saab and Holmes have had a collision when contesting a high ball. Holmes' hip hits Saab in the head and Holmes' head hits the ground hard as he falls back to the ground.

Drinkwater with a cut-out pass and - lets be honest - its utter garbage, as it goes behind 3 players and rolls into touch

SCRUM COWBOYS - Murray Taulagi takes an intercept and runs 80 metres before Saab brings him down. On the next play, Saab bats down a pass and saves a try again.

PENALTY MANLY - Cowboys drop out goes 9 metres and out on the full.

Tom goes close to scoring (held up). On the next play, Foran grubber's and Holmes has to take it dead. Cowboys drop out

SCRUM MANLY - Neame drops it on the first tackle. If Payten had hair, he'd have none left now.

PENALTY COWBOYS - They find touch 20m shy of halfway

DCE with a short restart and Harper gets the ball back

SET RESTART COWBOYS

SCRUM COWBOYS - 10m from the Manly line

Manly send the ball wide with quick hands but Tom's finally pass misses its mark and goes into touch

PENALTY MANLY - Stupid lifting in a stationary tackle. DCE finds touch 5m inside the Cowboys half

Manly get us going again

SET RESTART COWBOYS on the first tackle.

Foran kicks to the left side but Parker drops the ball.

Walker makes a break courtesy of a nice ball from Jake Trbojevic. On the next play, Manly kicks into the Cowboys ingoal but Dearden cleans up, however he can't get into the field of play. Cowboys dropout.

Holmes almost gets to the line in the left corner. From the play the ball, Asi tries to score an oztag dummy half try in the corner, but he drops the ball.

PENALTY COWBOYS - Manly penalised for not social distancing at marker.

DCE grubbers but its a bit heavy. Cowboys with a 7 tackle set

SET RESTART RESTART MANLY

SET RESTART MANLY

SCRUM MANLY - Dunn with a 1-on-1 strip and he knocks it on after stripping the ball.

PENALTY MANLY - Holmes catches a bomb and offloads quickly, into Manly defenders. Tom Trbojevic falls on it and then Taumalolo gives away a penalty trying to push the Manly fullback ingoal.

Harper drops a poor pass. Cowboys on the attack 30m from the Manly line

Manly choose not to contest the bomb and it pays off as the Cowboys knock it on, 20m from the Manly line.

SET RESTART COWBOYS

Manly finally get pulled up for throwing a forward pass. Thank goodness, because I thought I'd started watching the NFL

PENALTY MANLY - Illegal strip. Manly finds touch 10m inside the Cowboys half

Cowboys cover defence bundle Harper into touch when he was just 2 metres shy of scoring in the corner.

Garrick with another break.

Garrick with a 30m run down the left sideline

It seems that the hammer has a leg injury, he's come off the field. Doesn't look serious, he's unassisted and not even really limping.

Cowboys playing like a side vying for 4th while Manly's defence looks like a side vying for 14th.

Cowboys back 3 are making easy metres. Manly's defensive efforts on the edges of the ruck are atrocious very early.

SCRUM MANLY - Cowboys with a knock on at dummy half on halfway

Cowboys get this MASSIVELY VITALLY important game underway

The equations are simple here. Manly needs to win to move up to 4th, while for the Cowboys, they need to win to move into 14th place and a win by 85 points will see them jump into 13th on the ladder.