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    Will Croker be back?

    No one doubts effort and it is to be commended but if you are not good enough to be a first grade starter you should not be a first grade starter. My real issue is he was not a hooker to start with, never played there as a junior ,has none of the skills required to be a modern 9 yet he kept...
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    All NRL Games [Round 25, 2025]

    Tanner isn't special but Arthur is light years behind him. Jokes aside, this is just further evidence of the incredibly awful recruitment we have had. If you combine it with Johns, the idea that someone thought these two guys were adequate back in a first grade roster beggars belief. You...
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    Will Croker be back?

    If he plays 9 next year with Jake at 13 we get our first spoon. Croker should not play first grade again and Jake should play limited minutes at best with Navale at 13... both for health reasons and the fact he is just a first grader in the modern game.
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    Yeah you can argue that about individual players. Subjective. The real issue is that none of those top 4 clubs have decided it's. great idea to have 3 second rowers in their ENTIRE ROSTER with no 2 and no 3 being players of the quality of Ben and Waddell. Even if you rate Ben as a starter it's...
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    Caleb Navale

    The Klemmer deal includes a reserve grade winger of choice in the package deal. Need to be creative to get the big fish to the club.
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    2026 ( the Nostradamus thread )

    No one of note coming mate. Take it as read. Tupanua, Creighton and co had no interest at all plus a couple of lesser but still talented dudes. No one else on radar of quality. Players don't want to be coached by him.Everyone knows it. Throw in the fool who is owner. Same lack of line speed...
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    2026 ( the Nostradamus thread )

    The right mixture of youth and experience... not Dads army with wrong body shapes.It's not rocket science and is why Siebold needs to go. I bet he is going to pick Croker at 9 and even worse Jake at 13 -that is a gold plated stone cold certain spoon wrapped with a pink bow and deliverable at...
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    2026 ( the Nostradamus thread )

    There will be no good signings What you see is what you get in 26 Fog will improve usage of backs, especially off kicks With the exception of three or four the forwards are ****house now and won't get better An exception to that is Navale who will develop into good player but will Spoony play...
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    The fact this bloke is regarded as "one of our better performers " shows you the depths we have plummeted. At Manly these days all it requires is to "put in". It's the same warped logic that has allowed Croker to play hooker for 5 years and totally **** up any chance for us to progress our...
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    All NRL Games [Round 25, 2025]

    Like winning lotto
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    Sack Seibold Immediately

    This injury stuff is so overstated I Other than Paseka , Bull and Ola you could rotate any one of the others and it hardly matters a dsmn. TKO Sipley Aloia Brown Tevaga Waddell Burbot Jake Lodge Croker Sinpkin -on this years form they are basically all the same. Ordinary at best.Find...
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    Most underwhelming Manly EVER

    Croker was the issue, not the solution TKO = Aloia Jake is not an 80 minute 13 and gives us little these days. Jazz is a better 13. Burbot is bench at best Ola played 2/3 of year and we won the next two games after he was injured. Brown was average or worse this year. Paseka only definitive...
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    Sea Eagles Premiership

    A couple of obvious replacements for Saab in that picture
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    Next week

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    Next week

    A coach with any ****ing idea next week would 1. Play Joey Walsh in the halves with DCE and let Brooks **** up the hooking role after Simpkins has a break. Not as though we lose anything.( as much as I'd like to see Dollars get the flick it ain't happening in his last year )Siebold does not...
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    Manly Coach 2026 is...

    If we strike quickly we could snare Adam Obrien tonight ? He has a spoon under his belt and his players hate him so he ticks a lot of boxes. Perfect fit and won't break the bank.
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    Game Day: Tigers V Manly [Round 24, 2025]

    4 of those are no better or slightly better than their replacements and Ola was there for 2/3 of year. Losing Croker was a blessing.Allowed Simpkins, who unlike Croker , had some upside had been one of few positives for year.
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    Cheap isn't the issue. You can buy value forwards who fit the modern prototype and at least be a chance. Look at the dogs pack. Only one star in Kikau but the right " style" of player. Mann, Curran. Preston, Salmon, King ,Heywood. Mobile with skill. They are not expensive players. We buy slow...
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    This is more than just results and pondering if the next coach will be better/ worse. It goes beyond the technical aspect of coaching a squad week to week. He needs to go not because of results ( which are not good also ) but because he has built a forward pack that is not just too old , but in...
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    The way forward

    Also coincides with paying 1.3 mill for an overrated half totally incapable of managing big games. Penn is part of it but the backflip of The Chaser has been our biggest albatross, both in terms of his deficiencies and polarisation of the playing group , particularly the Trbojevics.

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