Rick777, I don't fly the 777 but from what I have read, the Boeing policy is for manual flight to be with Autothrottle ON? Also pushing the go-around buttons doesn't work once on the ground.
To the OP, our SOP is to apply thrust and pitch up, call for go-around flap and airbrake in, once a positive rate has been confirmed call for gear up, then check power. This sequence, although it does check the power, does not check it soon enough to fix the Dubai crash. We have a type with autothrottle and a type without, the SOP is the same on both except the TOGA buttons would be pushed on the autothrottle type.