Nathan Cleary is a must, but I think the other two will be the two other ‘halves’ out there.
Jerome Luai was amazing, Manly had a strategy of shutting down Nathan, and it worked to a degree for a while, but Laui took advantage of the situation and put on some amazing play. His kicking, passing and running was on point.
The other will be Tyrone May. Thrown in to the centre role (a position he isn’t too familiar with) he showed why he deserves that utility role. that wing stayed sharp as ever, and having a extra kicking half out there made Panthers attack deadly.
As other have already said if I could give a vote to them all but alas we only have 3.
Thought the forwards were excellent as always this season, can’t fault them this week. But the three I had mentioned just took it up a notch on Sunday. They made sure Manly would collect the ball on their line and work for every metre, which as you have mentioned the forwards did not make the task easy for them.
Actually this would be the first week I have not picked a forward. To be honest the halves made it very hard to pick anybody else.
Bloody good problem to have right, the forwards don’t get a vote because they are continually achieving such a high level of result week in week out, and when the backs step up, it stands out more lol
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