Talau makes a line break but then drops the ball on halfway when the cover defence meets him and thats it
A loose pass on the third tackle sees them have to go back to their own 10m line to clean it up
Pretty average set by Manly there. Tigers have 50 seconds to travel 90 metres to score
PENALTY MANLY - They find touch 20m from the Tigers line
Garrick lines up the penalty goal and pots it
PENALTY MANLY - 5m from the Tigers line.
SCRUM MANLY - Garrick drifts a long way across field then grubbers. Bula fumbles the ball 10m from his own line.
Brooks drops the ball on the last with a genuine tryscoring option in front of him.
Garrick from the sideline, converts the try
DCE puts up a bomb to the right corner and Saab outleaps Tupou, takes the catch and then scores.
Tom Trbojevic coming off the field with a slight limp
2nd tackle and Utoikamanu loses the ball.
Wakeham grubbers and forces a drop out. The Tigers best set of the game.
SCRUM TIGERS - Manly drops it almost straight away
SCRUM MANLY - Bateman loses the ball.
Wakeham fails to convert
To'a runs straight and two Manly defenders produce woeful tackle attempts which he runs through and scores on the right side.
Koroisau grubbers, Manly fumble the ball and Bula regathers 2m from the Manly line
SCRUM TIGERS - Brooks with a useless bomb. Schuster though drops it cold with no one around him.
Schuster runs on the last and is crunched as he attempts to kick.
Wakeham converts from in front
From the scrum win, Koroisau picks up the ball at the back of the scrum, shrugged out a tackle and crawled across the line to score under the posts
SCRUM TIGERS - Saab gets a hand on a Tigers pass and Harper regathers, but its ruled to have gone forward
To'a grubbers from himself but Tom Trbojevic takes it dead. Manly drop out
SCRUM MANLY
Bateman drops the ball, 25m from the Manly line
Brooks grubbers and forces a drop out.
Ofahengaue gets across the Manly line but he is held up.
Garrick lands the penalty goal
PENALTY MANLY - Tigers offside from the scrum.
SCRUM MANLY - 20m from the Tigers line
Bula with his first mistake, dropping a DCE bomb, 20m from his own line
Tigers get the second half started
Wakeham from the right sideline converts
Tigers send right to Stains who puts in an impressively high dive to score a spectacular try in the corner
Set restart Tigers on the second tackle
Set restart Tigers late in the set. They are on the Manly line
SCRUM TIGERS - Tom Trbojevic caught a bomb cleanly, then drops the ball when tackled around the waist. Both sides then knock it on while trying to regather.
SCRUM TIGERS - Manly get a quick play the ball but throw a forward pass. The corner could be getting crowded if this continues.
Brooks runs, draws the defender, gets tackled, then drops the ball. Brilliant.
DCE put up a bomb and then a fumble-a-thon happened. No team deserves the ball after that. They should all be made to sit in a corner for 5 minutes and think about how atrocious they've all been ending their sets and promise to be better.
PENALTY MANLY - Bateman with a sloppy high tackle over the shoulder on Parker.
PENALTY TIGERS - On the attack again
Garrick converts
DCE just passed the ball early, didn't engage any defenders, just dishing the ball along to Haumole Olakau'atu, planning for the next tackle. But Olakau'atu strolled into open space and continued strolling 10 metres to score the softest try seen in some time.
Wakeham with a beautiful cut-out pass, but unfortunately, it cut-out the only player outside him and went into touch.
SCRUM TIGERS - 30m from Manly's line
Rain is falling steadily now.
DCE's bomb to the right wing is a bit too wide and goes out on the full
Brooks gets the ball on the last and nobody is giving him any options, so he grubbers and hopes. But it just ends up going dead.
SCRUM TIGERS - 30m from Manly's line
SCRUM MANLY - Pole gets a lovely pass to the back of his shoulder and he drops the ball, 8m the Tigers side of halfway
Garrick converts
From the play the ball, Haumole Olakau'atu refused to be grassed despite the attention of 3 defenders, he then gets an offload away to Harper, who runs 20 metres before sending the ball out to Saab in the clear, who then turns it back inside to Tom trbojevic who then offloads to Cherry-Evans who strolls away to score a brilliant 80 metre try.
Challenge Successful. This just means Koroisau doesn't cop a handling error and there's no scrum. Manly regathered cleanly, so its just a play the ball.
SCRUM MANLY - Koroisau ruled to have dropped the ball. Tigers challenging saying his atrocious attempt to grubber the ball actually grazed part of his leg bits
Tigers have had the ball for 20 tackles and have executed about 25 passess. Real Expansive.
PENALTY MANLY - Papali'i with a crash ball run and gets almost to the line. he cannot resist the temptation to score and is pinged for a double movement
Challenge successful. Tigers get a fresh set 20m from the Manly line
Brooks put in a crossfield kick which found no one from any side. Tigers cleaned up and Staines got tackled on the last. Tigers challenging, saying Manly touched the ball.
PENALTY TIGERS - Illegal strip by Manly on Klemmer late in the Tigers unimaginative set. Tigers start their new set 30m from the Manly line
Manly kick off
The Last time the Tigers had a bye, they played Manly the following week at Campbelltown and got beaten 30-4
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Todd Smith
Touch Judges: Jon Stone, Kasey Badger
Video Referee: Gerard Sutton
WESTS TIGERS (16)
Tries: Charlie Staines, Apisai Koroisau, Starford To'a
Conversions: Brandon Wakeham (2/3)
MANLY-WARRINGAH SEA EAGLES (22)
Tries: Daly Cherry-Evans, Haumole Olakau'atu, Jason Saab
Conversions: Reuben Garrick (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Reuben Garrick (2/2)