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Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have returned to winning ways in style defeating the Melbourne Storm 30-4 in front of a full house at 4 Pines Park in Round 17 of the NRL Telstra Premiership.<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles led 24-0 after a dominant first half, with both teams scoring just the one try each after the break.<\/p>\n
The victory though has come at a cost for Manly with Luke Brooks suffering a suspected ACL injury late in the first half.<\/p>\n
The five-tries-to-one victory keeps the Sea Eagles in touching distance of the top four with nine games remaining.<\/p>\n
Despite the slippery conditions both teams completed their sets early on before Manly were given first chance to strike.<\/p>\n
A disruptor penalty allowed Manly to kick themselves downfield before Jamal Fogarty forced a repeat set.<\/p>\n
Jake Simpkin showed his skills, delivering a short ball to Haumole Olakau\u2019atu who crashed through the line for the Sea Eagles first points in the fifth minute. Fogarty added the extras to put Manly ahead 6-0.<\/p>\n
A push and shove ensued on the Western sideline in the 10th minute, a little reminiscent of earlier battles between these two clubs, but it soon subsided.<\/p>\n
Manly then marched their way downfield before Simpkin once again linked up with Olakau\u2019atu to put him over for Manly\u2019s second try.<\/p>\n
Olakau\u2019atu continued to terrorise the Storm defence running off the Bob Fulton Stand back fence which resulted in a head injury to Melbourne winger Moses Leo.<\/p>\n
Manly continued to control the middle and their third try came off the back of a surging run by Ethan Bullemor.<\/p>\n
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An inch-perfect cross field kick by Fogarty allowed Jason Saab to outleap his opposite number to put Manly further ahead in the 29th minute.<\/p>\n
With 10 minutes to go in the first half, Manly continued to dominate, completing their sets and kicking well.<\/p>\n
Manly\u2019s fourth try came just after the half hour mark and followed a towering bomb from Fogarty which found the grass and went out for a 40\/20.<\/p>\n
The left edge continued to play with confidence with Tola Koula gliding over out wide for Manly\u2019s fourth try of the night.<\/p>\n
Unlike last weekend, Fogarty was perfect off the boot, kicking four from four and giving Manly a comfortable 24-0 lead at half time.<\/p>\n
Brooks was unable to return to the field in the second half after suffering what is believed to be a ruptured ACL.\u00a0 He is expected to have scans on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Storm looked much improved after the break and their first points came in the 50th minute.<\/p>\n
Gifted good field position after a Manly error, they shifted the ball left to right, with replacement half Trent Toelau throwing a speculator over the top to Will Warbrick, who finished with an acrobatic effort in the corner.<\/p>\n
Having already lost Brooks to injury, Manly were then forced to play without his replacement, Joey Walsh for 10 minutes after he was sent to the sin bin for a dangerous tackle.<\/p>\n
Manly\u2019s defence held firm while down a man and a Tom Trbojevic tackle on Storm captain Harry Grant which dislodged the ball helped relieve the pressure.<\/p>\n
The momentum then shifted in Manly\u2019s favour following a repeat set at Melbourne\u2019s end of the field. Melbourne failed to get the drop out away in time and conceded a shot-clock penalty in front, gifting Manly another two point.<\/p>\n
After mounting pressure for a few minutes, Ben Trbojevic was able to crash through three defenders from dummy half to score<\/p>\n
Manly\u2019s fifth and final try of the night came when Ben Trbojevic barged his way over from dummy half, carrying a few Melbourne players with him.<\/p>\n
Fogarty was unable to add the extras with Manly ahead 30-4 with just over 10 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
The Storm were forced to finish the match with 12 men when Toelau was put in the bin for a second effort in the ruck.<\/p>\n
A dominant performance by Manly, completing at 95% in slippery conditions, saw the team rewarded with a 26-point win.<\/p>\n
Next up is a clash against the Parramatta Eels at CommBank Stadium on Sunday 5th July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have returned to winning ways in style defeating the Melbourne Storm 30-4 in front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-763875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}