Manly Sea Eagles wary of wounded Melbourne Storm Matt Russell and Laurie Daley preview the Storm v Sea Eagles clash. Manly coach Geoff Toovey watches on at Sea Eagles training. AFTER successive losses, you get the feeling someone is going to pay. Manly coach Geoff Toovey just hopes it isn't his team. Champion Melbourne have been defeated by Canberra and Penrith in successive weeks, the defending premiers in a rare mid-season rut. "They are coming off two losses so they will have a sore tooth," Toovey said on arrival in Melbourne yesterday afternoon. No doubt they will be trying to find that little bit extra. Melbourne will be focused. We have to match that. These are two quality sides who have a great traditional rivalry. We hope that will continue but we also hope we come out on top. We would like to be at full strength but it is what it is. We trained well and the boys go in confident. Manly forward Tom Symonds remains in doubt with a quad injury. The Sea Eagles are also without forwards Richie Fa'aoso, Joe Galuvao, Jason King and star fullback Brett Stewart. Stewart will again be replaced by youngster Peta Hiku. Hiku replaced Stewart for last Monday's match against the Roosters and retained his place for the Storm game, where he will oppose the brilliant Billy Slater. He may only be young but Hiku isn't afraid to reveal his emotions. "It's a big game," Hiku said. I don't really like Melbourne so I really want to beat them. It (facing Slater) is going to be an awesome challenge. Hopefully I come out and have a good game and do my part. Hiku said he was still coming to terms with yelling at more experienced teammates from the back. You don't really want to yell at them because they've got more experience than me, but 'Snake' (Stewart) has been telling me, 'See what you see, play how you play and just play your game.' The team's been real good to me, telling me not to be shy because I am a shy person. They all just help me out and give me their own opinions. Storm coach Craig Bellamy denied his post-match comments after last week's loss to Penrith that his players "didn't seem to be excited about playing." "I just said we need opportunity to get a bit more excited about our footy," Bellamy said. The last two games we've only got to the way we want to play when we got into trouble in both the games.