Quote: Dunbar "Just watched the Souths Manly semi so thought I would clear up some of inaccuracies posted on this thread
As he has been all season, Sam Burgess was one of the most dominant forwards on the pitch – he played the full 80 minutes, his work-rate was immense and his defence brutal. He knocked on trying to ground the ball after taking 3 defenders over the line, that may go into the mistake category but it’s a bit harsh as the grounding was very difficult
George and Luke played 48 and 40 minutes respectively. George as usual added a lot of go forward off the bench and left a lot of defenders on the ground. I thought his late effort was a try also
Luke was solid if unspectacular but as good as the other props on the field
One of the posters earlier in the thread said that a George Burgess knock on led to a Manly try – it was actually a Luke Burgess knock on after a ridiculous off load from Bryson Goodwin whose mistake it was
There were a few players in Souths colours who didn’t play as well as they could have, Isaac Luke for example made two mistakes from the base of the scrum (knock on and forward pass) and also knocked on at the play the ball two metres from the Manly line when Souths were 14-8 up just before half time
The Manly comeback was great from 14-0 behind and they deserve all the credit but none of the blame for the Souths defeat lay with the Burgess boys, and in particular not Sam
Here's hoping Sam and George get a couple of weeks rest and come out firing for England'"
you're falling into the classic rlfans trap of letting good and correct facts get in the way of folk who post on here with a preconceived agenda
