Night of heroes as Manly thumps Souths

MANLY has the rest of the NRL teams looking over their shoulders after a 42-8 rout of South Sydney at Allianz Stadium last night.

The Sea Eagles had heroes all over the park with Akuila Uate turning back the clock to score four tries, Dylan Walker terrorising on the right edge all night and Tom Trbojevic running riot all over the park.

After narrowly beating premiership contender Canberra at home last week, the Sea Eagles will head into the representative round break with five wins from their last seven — a stretch that includes the big scalps of the Sydney Roosters, Canterbury and North Queensland.

The result leaves Souths with one win from their past six and the players were booed by the crowd as they left the field at halftime after Manly opened up a 30-2 lead.

Trbojevic turned in a performance that would have made the NSW selectors sit up and take notice after having a hand in four of his side’s six first-half tries and finishing the match with 209 metres, one linebreak and three linebreak assists.

Walker — playing against his old club — continued his devastating form, throwing the last pass for all of Uate’s tries.

After falling out of favour and spending most of 2016 in NSW Cup, former Australian and NSW winger Uate looks a new man playing under Barrett this year.

“I’m happy for both of them, particularly Aku, he had a horrible 12 months, he was down on confidence and doubting his ability, I suppose,” Barrett said.

Meanwhile, North Queensland Cowboys last night lost star Johnathan Thurston to injury prior to kick-off against the Eels — and it got worse from there.

Parramatta ran in four tries in a 26-6 win.

MANLY 46 (A Uate 4 B Green B Lawrence C Sironen J Taufua J Trbojevic tries D Walker 3 J Hastings 2 goals) d SOUTH SYDNEY 8 (H Hunt try A Reynolds 2 goals) at Allianz Stadium.

PARRAMATTA 26 (C Gutherson 2 T Mannah W Smith tries C Gutherson 5 goals) d NORTH QUEENSLAND 6 (A Winterstein try K Feldt goal) at 1300SMILES Stadium.