Who is our bogey team & do we have a better team on paper this year?

[Guest]

They've also won 2 premierships, were runners up, and hardly missed the finals if at all during that time.

Bogey team is a team which usually manages to win despite an apparent weakness. Hardly Manly.

But I would agree, head to head, they would be up there.

While I see where you are coming from, our worst, most embarrasing performances and losses seem to always be against manly irrespective of how good/bad they are we are always no where near our best and get absolutely flogged

[SConcierge]

They've also won 2 premierships, were runners up, and hardly missed the finals if at all during that time.

Bogey team is a team which usually manages to win despite an apparent weakness. Hardly Manly.

But I would agree, head to head, they would be up there.

then I will bet my right one for the last 20yrs Manly, did we play them at brookie with all their forwards out in the last two yrs and Foran tore us one

[John Corey]

Saints. Manly, Penrith. Take your pick. Manly bash us, no matter how many injuries they have. Saints win the big games against us, we win the ones that matter little. And Penrith? It don't matter how crap they are. They make it real tough.

[SConcierge]

Here we go, I wont say I TOLD YOU SO

head 2 head every game

Manly 72 Easts 37
Penriff 26 Easts 44
Dogs 72 Easts 74
Steelers 7 Easts 9

[John Corey]

They've also won 2 premierships, were runners up, and hardly missed the finals if at all during that time.

Bogey team is a team which usually manages to win despite an apparent weakness. Hardly Manly.

But I would agree, head to head, they would be up there.

then I will bet my right one for the last 20yrs Manly, did we play them at brookie with all their forwards out in the last two yrs and Foran tore us one

Yeah mate. They bashed us. Very embarrassing.

[Salvatori Grubber]

Away from home we always lose to the Warriors. We're always in the match, but ultimately lose.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Our bogey team is the 3 pricks in pink.

[Guest]

Here we go, I wont say I TOLD YOU SO

head 2 head every game

Manly 72 Easts 37
Penriff 26 Easts 44
Dogs 72 Easts 74
Steelers 7 Easts 9

Clearly you are missing the point.

[Guest]

Manly, Brisbane, Bulldogs IMO.

When we came from behind to beat all 3 at the end of 2010 it was a massive omen for me.

Enter, the men in pink.

[ROC181]

Cronulla cause they have crap and manage to have beaten us when it was ours to win. I still remember that try by the Sharks fullback at the SFS on a night game when he ran the full length of the field from the Paddington end and cut through every tackle. Manly or Saints can't be our bogey team cause they are always competitive.

[ism22]

I've always felt St George to be our bogey team but it's year just matching the two sides up on paper it looks like to me we have it covered.

Just thought I'd see what everyone else's thoughts were?

St Merge on the ANZAC day test and Manly at Brookie.

Last year was a disgrace how we lost te ANZAC day test and that's when the irreversable rot set in for our 2012 campaign.

Manly... I always think they're not such a magnificent team but they ALWAYS beat us (last week doesn't count.) Again last year during Origin Mortimer scored the game winner against them... wait no, it was wrongfully disallowed and after that Manly put 20+ points on us. We were paying $7 to beat them and I remember contemplating dropping a gorilla on that game... glad I didn't.

I have a feeling we CAN beat both this year. Whether we do comes down to attitude alone. If we beat them, we have the right attitude to go all the way IMO!

[Headless Chook]

Take out 2010 and I think you will find our recent record against the Sharks is pretty good. They were the only team we managed to beat twice in 2009 when we got the spoon!

[mightyrooster]

Manly for sure. We have an abysmal record against them since forever.
I also hate playing Penrith.

[Bansai Pipeline]

We never beat Penrith.

Or the Dogs.

Or the Saints.

And Manly have had the wood on us for a while.

[ism22]

Manly for sure. We have an abysmal record against them since forever.
I also hate playing Penrith.

Yeah since that bloody GF in horrible wet weather I'm always scared of playing the Riff.

It's VERY often the case that we get SMASHED by the Riff when they're seen as having no hope. Last year we were rubbish but more respectable teams didn't beat us in such a convincing manner.

In 2010 when we thrashed the Riff in the finals I was amazed... and that was with us on fire and Carney doing no wrong.

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The plus side? We have Jennings now, Kennedy got Burns pretty well banned for life and Gus is doing his best to destroy the Riff for us. I'm not all that worried about the Riff this season, but you never know... s*x even more when they are wearing pink and still thrash us.