Welcome to Round 19 - the Rivalry Round
After two fantastic games and a bye week we head up to Newcastle's Hunter Stadium to hopefully keep up the winning streak in the run to finals. If we remember back to last years game up at Newcastle, the Sea Eagles scored a try in the opening set. If last weeks game is anything to go off I'm sure we're set for another ripper opening few sets that hopefully bag us a few tries as well!
With Newcastle not travelling so well we are expected to grab the two points in this game. In saying that, it is not the time for complacency and the team should be looking to score as many tries as possible and end up with a large points differential. We need to cement a spot in the top four and scoring as many tries against, the lower-ranking teams is one way to climb the ladder.
We have just heard that we signed Richie Fa'aoso for two years from 2013 which is an enormous boost and with Matt Ballin also recently secured until 2015 the lead up to the finals seems almost trouble-free. Our team looks ready and the most fired up I think they have been all year.
While last weeks game against Parramatta was a great win, we copped another blow in the form of injury to our fullback Brett Stewart. Manly seem fairly certain it's just a small injury, and he should be back for our game against the Bulldogs in round 20. Let's not forget the last time they down-played an injury for Kieran Foran, he was out for six weeks. There is hope that Glenn Stewart will be back, but Daniel Harrison has been named on an extended bench to move into lock if needed. Dean Whare will play fullback going up against Darius Boyd, who while his time at Newcastle hasn't been the greatest of his career, is still an unreal fullback who cannot be underestimated.
Good Luck to the boys and Happy Footballing!
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