Match Centre

FT - Manly 38 def Titans 8

Challenge inconclusive

Challenge time

Manly looking to add further salt into the wound.

Jurbo comes from the ground.

Manly come up with possession.

D. Fifita forces a drop-out

SIX AGAIN TITANS: Slow peel

Gold Coast recover the short-kick-off.

Manly just looking to end with a flurry here!

Both sides now closing the match out

Brian Kelly puts that one down.

Pass is called forward by Chris Sutton and it'll be a scrum.

SIX AGAIN TITANS: Inside 10m

Manly have to bat it dead and it's a goal-line dropout.

Campbell crunched in a quality tackle

Erin Clark is held up !

Kini splits them. He goes to Turbo, almost beats him but Turbo gets him to ground!

Talau is away, chased by Fermor and the back-rower gets to him!

PICKED OFF!

Away goes Kelly. Chased by DCE and the old seadog gets to him.

Gold Coast are just playing a little flat now after a strong start.

Gordon Chan Kum Tong now into the action for the home team.

Burbo has been great at centre and defuses that kick.

Burbo puts it down and we will have another set for the Coast on-top of a ruck infringement.

PENALTY TITANS: Marker not square

VIDEO REF: Kennedy has NO TRY - Talau is ruled to have gone into touch. Great effort from the Titans defence.

SIX MORE MANLY: Inside 10m

Manly are just on the rampage here in this second half.

Manly are just toying with the coast. Another big attacking set here.

Wave the WHITE FLAG ! The horse has bolted

Josiah Pahulu puts it down as the Titans look to come out of their own end.

Manly work up into the Titans attacking area. Brooks to Turbo who kicks it straight to JoJo Fifita.

Gold Coast got up to the Manly attacking 20m. But, they bundled possession. Saab and AKP collide with Liam Kennedy ruling he's tackled off the ball.

Back underway for the second 40 minutes of action.

HT: Manly 12 lead Titans 8

Gold Coast having open space galore down the right edge (left of Manly)

Loud call of forward from Matt Noyen and it looks correct. Touch judge is right there so Manly will get it back.

The boos ring out at 4 Pines Park as the home fans call for a penalty.

Gold Coast again asking several questions. Kelly kicks and puts too much on it!

PENALTY TITANS: Inside 10m

Manly have officially burnt the challenge.

Turbo ruled to have knocked on but DCE ran to Liam Kennedy to get a challenge in.

Lehi Hopoate can barely see out of his eye and now comes from the field. Meanwhile, Karl Lawton goes STRAIGHT THROUGH ! Manly on the attack here

A complete 180 in momentum in the last 5 minutes.

SIX AGAIN MANLY - Slow peel

PENALTY MANLY: Ball came out = hand on ball says Liam Kennedy and on first glance he looks right.

Somehow the bunker has cleared the massive bumper up from Garrick which has seen Fermor a little groggy! Manly get it back, some high drama at Brookvale.

Garrick cannot escape the in-goal. Fermor is on the ground - looked like a bumper up

Can the Titans get try number 3?

Lehi Hopoate is the world's most honest footballer. He gives himself up and rightly so as the replays show a knock on in the contest for the ball.

Talau's pass wasn't on-target. Manly had the extra man down this left edge but the pass was woeful.

Just entering the arm-wrestle here at Brookvale. Gold Coast leading by 8-0 !

Manly aren't having anything their own way at the moment.

Simpkin working his way around the rucks finding Bullemor. Manly have their first clean break of the game. However they again struggle with the last tackle options. The home crowd can't get their way unlike in the western suburbs.

Been a real hot topic the sticky spray with a lot of players struggling to come to grips with the football as they are playing the ball.

Now Manly lose it in the play the ball...

SIX MORE MANLY: Slow peel - Verrills

PENALTY MANLY: High tackle

Manly need some attacking field position. Gold Coast have dominated the early running with 6 line-breaks to 0!

PENALTY MANLY: Inside 10m

Now Sami goes straight through. Manly are stuck in the dressing rooms here at Brooky.

Turbo is out on the left edge here through the sets of six coming out of yardage.

Both sides starting to get into the arm-wrestle but is apparent that the Sea Eagles have been well and truly AMBUSHED !

Gold Coast get another set on the line. Manly have to be incredibly careful!

Gold Coast are tearing them apart!

Burbo almost gets through but earns his side an extra set. DCE goes for an early kick when the gap appears to open. Fortunately for the hosts, Alofiana Khan-Pereira bats ht dead.

PENALTY MANLY: Inside 10m

Fortunately, Manly are off the hook

Manly certainly pushing Liam Kennedy's patience early with their discipline on the line.

Verrills splits them. Comes to Turbo and he gets ran down. They earn an extra set of six in attack.

Pass is forward though as Manly look to get on the attack. DCE guilty and it's correctly called by the touch judge.

Gold Coast looking the more dominant side early. But a poor kick sees Manly go on the counter attack. Tommy Talau sprinting up and beyond Gold Coast territory.

PENALTY TITANS: Tommy Talau guilty of a high tackle!

Manly wearing a Community based jersey this afternoon! Both sides through their opening sets of the game.

We are underway

Liam Kennedy has the whistle for his 41st NRL match. Matt Noyen and Chris Sutton have the flags. Ash Klein continues his Origin rest with a second bunker appointment this weekend.

Des is home! Des Hasler returns to Brookvale Oval this afternoon as his Titans travel down from Broadbeach to the Northern Beaches. Manly have been thrilling to watch in attack, but questions remain about their consistency. Ben Trbojevic comes in to start in his place alongside older brother Jake in the back row. Elsewhere, Brown is benched with Sipley starting at prop. Taniela Paseka returns from injury on the interchange to fill the vacant spot. Haumole of course suspended for his part in the Origin melee. Gold Coast are 1-17 (yes - Des has done it).