I think Siebold not defending him but when you have DCE, Turbo, Jake. You can have a couple of “up and coming” first graders to balance the cap. Brooks is a great buy and our forward rotation is super solid. You can down play Crooker all day but he is playing $200k above his weight to balance...
I shouldn’t get spooked after 1 loss but I think the teams looks a lot better balanced with Burbo at 12 and Waddell with some agression off the bench. Lawton good early season and last two games he has thrown forward passes and been average. I wonder as long term you give humpherys the 14 for...
That was like watching NSW v QLD and with 10 minutes to go and NSW up by 10 you just knew they would lose. Gee agree with comments above DCE what about the game management, 20 points up you can play the other side out of the game, you don’t need to score another 30 points.
Klemmer can play but at $750k, not for me. Lodge apparently on $600k and I rate better than Klemmer, for $750k better bet would be Saifiti or Leo Thompson. Tigers in swap deal for Fulton and we pick up $400k and we can talk.
IMO Manly have fallen into the Warriors trap of 10 years ago, big pack and good halves that gas themselves after 25 minutes and get run over by the opposition. The current 6 again and ball in play does not suit a big pack which need a stop start game.
Looking to add some mobility I would look...
Kyle Felt from Nth QLD, out of favour at the moment and would be great 6 week cover, would help out Nth QLD cap as well lending player for rest of the season
Talua was on the bench for tigers last week and didn’t even get used. He is signed with Manly for next year so Tigers may let him go, pay Tigers $50k transfer fee and Talua the remainder of his contract for this year. Garrick can them move to Fullback and have Weeks at 14.
If you could buy an available fullback for rest of the season rather than use Garrick you would be looking at Dane Laurie, Charlie Staines, possibly CKN if you offered 2 year deal, maybe Lachlan Miller.
Any chance of managing the cap by signing Tommy to $50k per game, could cost Manly $1m per season or more likely $500k for the 10 games he plays each year.
Garrick to fullback and we see if we can get Taula before 30 June from Tigers. Possible swap for Aaron Woods and Myers who I think it going to Tigers next year anyway.
Seibold first order of business is to recruit a gun Prop to go with Alaoli, every team in the finals this year had Props that ran off the back fence and let their halves dominate. DCE will look great at WC behind a decent pack, need that here too.
We are just being dominated in the forwards and that makes our backs just defenders, Saab before injury did have a open run for the past month and neither has anyone in the backs. We need a big running prop to start with Alaloi to give us some go forward. Is there any decent Props we could pick...
Lawton return from injury as 9 backup and regular 14, Tommy back, say we need another Prop and a half backup. Jake Clifford could be of interest at the right price.
Newcastle did not have a good year but just as a thought if we picked up Klemmer as a hard running forward and Jake Clifford as a backup half-5/8 I think we could get change out of $1m and with Tapaua going ($700k) and Foran ($400k) plus Walker on (?) I thought you would have some value
Think we have some really good backline options with a bit of depth (Tommy comes back next year), just not competing in n the forwards, Aloiai and then that’s it for the front row. AFB come back please and sparing that we need to pick up a hardship running prop to partner Aloiai.
