Snake
Snake's Alive!
Love Foran, want him to stay and hope he will. But put yourself in his shoes and ask yourself, why should he stay at Manly? He's always said it's not about money and I believe him, so it won't matter how much cash we throw at him. So what have we got to offer besides a convenient location and "lifestyle"?
He's 24 and already achieved pretty much everything there is to achieve in the game of rugby league. Maybe he wants a change, a "new challenge" - new people, new faces. It could be as simple as that.
And yeah, it's easy to say he should stay loyal, but stay loyal to what? The other players? The club management? The fans? The "Manly" ideal? Maybe he once thought that loyalty went both ways at Manly - that for all the talk about rugby league being a business things were different at Manly. But then the Gifty fiasco happened and it was pretty obvious that things weren't different at Manly.
Cherry going to the Gold Coke Titans puts even more pressure on Foran to make a decision, and to make it soon. So - serious question - why should he stay?
If he is after a challenge, then sticking around to rebuild and bring the new talent through, before going onto to another premiership down the track, would be more satisfying than blowing into town at some other club with an established roster and winning a competition of their coattails in a foreign jumper that means nothing to him.
The biggest challenge he could place on himself would be to stay and do the job that was done for him by the other senior boys when he first came to grade.