Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold has slammed his facet’s “disappointing” lack of effort after taking place to the Eels 34-4 in a “frustrating” show.
An early sin bin to fullback Kaeo Weekes noticed Brad Arthur’s facet rating two quickfire tries and from there, Manly have been on the again foot.
Seibold believes the Sea Eagles “need to be better” in a sobering actuality for a facet which are thought of premiership contenders.
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“Really frustrating night, at the moment we take one step forward and two steps back, that’s where we are at as a group,” Seibold mentioned within the post-match press convention.
“We just couldn’t handle the chaos of that early sin binning, I think we scored two tries while he was in the sin bin.
“Then it was a tough old night for us from there, a really frustrating night.”
The Sea Eagles have been with out key duo Daly Cherry-Evans and Tom Trbojevic who have been away on Origin responsibility.
But that wasn’t an excuse for Seibold who pointed to Parramatta additionally lacking their common beginning halves in Mitchell Moses and Dylan Brown.
“That’s not why we lost the game, we need to be better than that,” Seibold mentioned.
“They are big losses, but they are missing Mitchell Moses and Dylan Brown as well.
“It’s not an excuse for us. We’ve shown a lot of effort and toughness this year, even in the games we haven’t been great… we’ve been tough and hung in.
“But we weren’t as good at the effort part of the game tonight which was the most disappointing part of our game.”
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In Round 15, Manly delivered an eye-watering efficiency to pile 58 factors on the NRL’s latest franchise, the Dolphins.
Fast ahead every week and Seibold’s facet might solely manufacture a single attempt in a poor attacking show.
Seibold believes the Sea Eagles must “close the gap” between their greatest and worst performances to search out consistency.
“At the moment our best halves of footy and our worst halves of footy are too far apart and we are trying to close the gap,” Seibold mentioned.
“At our best we have been really good, but sometimes we put too much pressure on ourselves and I think all four of their tries in the first half came off the back of our errors.
“We’d cough up the footy and we are then on our tryline.
“We hung though in that second half, but we weren’t good enough at the effort part of the game.”
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