Manly were good, great in fact I have to give them that. They played the whole 80min of the first final without a single line break recorded against them yet lost 4-0 to the Roosters. They played the whole first 40min of the first half of the grand final without conceding a line break except for one in the last 10sec that ended in nothing yet were down at half time. That is awesome defence in anyone's language, but the Roosters were better!

I was glad Roosters won by more than 6, because of that forward pass. But Manly got a lot of the ref's helping hand with a blatant strip of the ball in front of the sticks off JWH and a penalty try that was by no means a certainty (although it did save us 10min in the bin!)

DCE winning the Clive Churchill medal was the biggest joke of the year, they must have decided that before the game! He may have been manly's best but he wasn't the best on field. SBW was kept quiet in the first half but tore manly to shreds in the second half.