I’ve just finished watching the Warriors lose to the Eels, and while the result will eventually be forgotten, the fumbling, bumbling performance of Manu Vatuvei will not be.
This was the absolute worst display by a winger I have ever seen, the last 20 minutes of the game was torture for the winger, and torture for any Warriors fan watching.
His body language was awful, you could tell he just wanted to be somewhere else, and the Eels as you would expect did not let up with bombs and grubbers aimed straight for him. Things got so bad that the attacking Eels players did not always play for the ball – they were that confident he would fumble.
I felt really sad and sorry for Manu, because there is a high chance his confidence will not recover from the number of dropped balls and fumbles. I certainly hope it does, because when he is on song, he is awesome to watch. We’ve just not seen it for a long time.
Ivan Cleary was in a tough position – he could have benched him and run the risk of destroying his confidence even more . . .although the Eels ended up doing a good job of that.
If I were Ivan I would be having a quiet word Kiwi’s coach Brian McClennan, who has been able to extract some good performances from Vatuvei.
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I felt sorry for Manu as well. They should have benched him though, you could see he was getting worse each minute
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