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Set Restart MANLY

PENALTY MANLY - Tigers with a short kick off and Koula gets the ball and makes a break, offloads to Sipley who gets a good ball away on halfway to Schuster who then has the ball illegally stripped from him.

SCRUM TIGERS - 10m from the Tigers line. Harper with a knock on.

Set restart Manly

After 4 tackles the Tigers had made 3 metres. Hastings kicks on the last from the Tigers 20m line.

Challenge unsuccessful. SCRUM MANLY - 30m from the Tigers line.

Refs Challenge - Tigers pinged for a knock on. Tigers challenge

PENALTY MANLY - Brooks with an illegal strip

Schuster grubbers into a Tigers defender and gets the ball back. 6 more tackles inside the Tigers red zone.

Foran with a good grubber and Naden takes it dead. Tigers drop out.

PENALTY MANLY - They take the tap 10m from the Tigers line.

Olakau'atu makes a break, kicks ahead, but it ricochets off a Tigers player and falls in the hands of Koula who is tackled.

Walker on the last decides to try a brainfart play. He succeeds in turning the ball over while his team mates stand looking at him in disbelief.

Harper makes a break and now Manly are in the Tigers half

Harper with a strip 2 tackles later.

Nofoaluma intercepted, ran 40m, passed infield to Laurie in support, who added another 20 metres before getting the ball onto To'a who stumbles and is tackled 30m from the Manly line.

PENALTY MANLY - Challenge Successful. Bunker rules that Ofahengaue swiped the ball loose.

Croker holds the ball out away from his body looking to offload, but no one seems interested and then he drops the ball. Ref calls knock on. Manly challenging.

PENALTY MANLY - Seyfarth holds on too long in the tackle. Manly find touch 10m inside the Tigers half.

Hastings grubbers and its blocked and regathered by Harper.

PENALTY TIGERS - Liddle runs straight at Jake Trbojevic who wasn't square at marker. Brooks finds touch 20m from the Manly line

Well that half was about as exciting as watching the Wests Tigers selecting a new coach.

Foran with a little grubber from dummy half and its pathetic. Brooks stops it at marker and then falls on the loose ball - 5m from the Tigers line.

Brooks kicks it out on the full.

PENALTY TIGERS - They find touch 10m inside the Manly half

Both sides have been very nonchalant after turning the ball over.

PENALTY MANLY - Tigers with an illegal strip.

SCRUM TIGERS - Schuster with a quick switch of play to the short side, sends a ball over the top to Saab, who was about to score, but the ref ruled the pass forward.

Naden got hit by a bus, or something similar in size. Flattened. He looked to be knocked out for all money, but the trainer looked at him and gave the all clear. Thankfully, the referee told him to get off the field and be properly assessed.

PENALTY MANLY - More Leilua brain snaps. Illegal strip this time.

The Tigers attack through the middle has been as poor as the clubs record of sacking coaches

SCRUM MANLY - 10m from the Manly line

Brooks with a shortball for Leilua but Leilua was doing Leilua things and dropped it.

PENALTY TIGERS - Taupau penalised for not being square at marker. Tigers find touch at halfway

Hastings grubbers and finds touch 10m shy of the Manly line

PENALTY MANLY - Liddle with a second effort in the tackle. Manly find touch 10m inside the Tigers half.

Manly early in the set and deep in their own half, start throwing the ball around before eventually throwing it to the Tigers.

Tigers with some nice passing on the left side before Laurie's ball is taken by Naden above his head and he almost gets the ball down for a try.

The Tigers with the first almost useful kick of the game by Maumalo. Croker takes it dead. Manly drop out.

The kicking game from both sides have been average, at best

Saab catches the Hastings kick ingoal.

Sipley with a strip on Tamou 2m from the Manly line.

Tigers with a set restart, camped on the Manly line

SCRUM TIGERS - Sloppy play by the Tigers on the 5th. An offload by the Tigers is knocked on by Manly, 20m from their own line.

Manly attack rolling down field with ease, by Foran's kick on the last is too deep and Maumalo takes it comfortably in goal.

Tigers service from dummy half in that first set was slower moving than a queue at Australia Post on Saturday morning.

Aloiai mows upfield with his first run

Brooks kicks off

Brett Kimmorley having a chat to the Tigers players. Not since the end of the Tigers debut season have they had a coach who departed on their own terms (aside from interim coaches)