15′ Tom Trbojevic with a massive blunder
Kyle Flanagan’s bomb is a little scuffed and spins through the air a bit irregularly as a result, and Tom Trbojevic makes a meal of the catch.
Mercifully for the Sea Eagles, the errors keep coming as Valentine Holmes takes his turn dropping it cold.
Not the highest-quality contest thus far.
14′ Manly can’t make them pay
Moses Suli drops the ball cold as he trucks it out of danger, gifting the Sea Eagles possession inside the 20m zone.
But Manly’s attacking raid ends as Simione Laiafi fumbles a short ball as he makes a hard charge on the tryline.
7′ Hopoate avoids Manly disaster
Tom Trbojevic marks Kyle Flanagan’s long set-ending kick, and offloads to Lehi Hopoate on a wraparound, but the pass is way out in front and Hopoate makes a sensational one-handed catch to avoid handing the Dragons possession 15 metres out.
2′ Manly get right on the attack
First chance they get, the Sea Eagles put the ball into the air for big Tom Trbojevic to contest with Dan Atkinson.
Atkinson fumbles under the pressure, and I think we can expect a bit more of that tactic tonight.
Nathan Brown leads the Sea Eagles out
He’s playing his 200th NRL game and is accompanied out to the field by his three kids.
They’re ready at Brookvale
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About last night
It was another miserable evening for the Broncos — their ninth straight loss at Lang Park — but the stuff that happened between kick-off and full-time was only part of it.
After a rocky lead-up, the on-field tribute to injured and retiring captain Adam Reynolds was also botched.
The season in Brisbane ending in fitting fashion really.
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