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\u201cAnd I felt the way that everyone responded to that was excellent, so really pleased.\u201d <\/p>\n
Despite the resounding victory, Foran still lamented Manly\u2019s inability to play for 80 minutes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are a helluva footy team,\u201d Foran said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a great footy team in there and we know that. It just hasn\u2019t been clicking. But we\u2019ve got a footy team there. It\u2019s just a matter of building on that. That\u2019s a building block. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t started the year the way that we would have wanted, but that performance tonight was a step in the right direction. That\u2019s not the end result. <\/p>\n
\u201c52 points was nice, but we finished again poorly. We let in 18 points at the end of the game, but for 67 minutes we were outstanding.\u201d <\/p>\n
The rookie coach admitted nerves played a huge role in the lead-up to the game, which saw him go walkabout in Brisbane. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous throughout the day,\u201d Foran said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cI was going for walks around Brisbane. I couldn\u2019t sit still. I think I did about four or five kilometres.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s nervous at the best of the times this bloke,\u201d Trbojevic interjected. <\/p>\n
Foran continued: \u201cBut naturally nerves, right? Like you step into this role, and there\u2019s been a lot going on through the week. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted it for the club. Like I wanted the win tonight for the boys and for the club. It\u2019s been a disappointing start to the season and we all knew that, but they deserve that tonight. \u201cThey\u2019ve worked their backsides off all pre-season, and we\u2019ve seen in the four walls how hard they\u2019ve worked and the commitment that they\u2019ve shown from the day that they walked through for pre-season. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThey have poured everything into it, and they deserve that tonight. They just went after it, and that\u2019s all you can ask.\u201d <\/p>\n
Manly played with a much more simple formula, which seemed to work against the Dolphins, but Foran deflected praise on his players. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s all the boys, that\u2019s on the players,\u201d Foran said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey took accountability for where things were at, and they decided to front up and go to work and that\u2019s all we\u2019ve asked of them to do is have a look at themselves in the mirror and turn up and put some pride back in the jersey and they did that tonight.\u201d <\/p>\n
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