2025 recruitment & retention

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Ryan

Journey Man

Impressive in changing players but still being at the top. Our salary cap is so unbalanced and we will never win until the 1 million plus contracts of Turbo, DCE and Jake retire.

Thought a lot about this. We could have a very young, fast, much more balanced team without them, and a huge 4-5 million dollar war-chest available:

01. Lehi Hopoate
02. Jason Saab
03. Tolu Koula
04. Tommy Talau
05. Reuben Garrick
06. Luke Brooks
07.
08. Taniela Paseka
09. Jake Simpkin
10. Ethan Bullemor
11. Haumole Olakau'atu
12.
13. Caleb Navale

14. Jake Arthur
15. Josh Aloiai
16. Jazz Tevaga
17.

We are so far behind the top teams in terms of agility, mobility, line-speed, intensity, speed (basically, ALL the attributes of 2024-2025 NRL). Maybe it's time guys?

Surely there are three players available (absolute marquee) for that 4-5 mill to fill those holes.
 

BOZO

Journey Man
Tipping Member
We are a club and team on the improve.
Our consistency was markedly the best it's been in a decade this year.
But winning a comp ain't easy.
Thanks for your reply feathered friend

We are a club and team on the improve. ???
Last season we underachieved .
This season we made the top 8 with a top 8 squad .
This season we met expectations . We did not over achieve
For our club to improve from this years effort we must do better next year than this years underwhelming finals exit .

Our consistency was markedly the best it's been in a decade this year ???
A decade marked by what ?
Our Benchmark is Winning Grand finals !

But winning a comp ain't easy.???
Especially when you dont have a Grand final Winning coach

I hope I am wrong and you are right because I want Manly to win a Grand final
But I have no faith in Seibold
 

master blaster

Bencher
Premium Member
Reading the Cowboys forum they dont seem to rate DJ, the consensous seems he showed talent early but hasn't kicked on.

They seem happy he wont be taking a top 30 spot.

Doesn't read as sour grapes either.

That said, kid is still you so I wont write him off, but I'll have measured expectations to begin with.
Lets not forget this is where Condon came from, hope he is better than him
 

double hoops

First Grader
Thanks for your reply feathered friend

We are a club and team on the improve. ???
Last season we underachieved .
This season we made the top 8 with a top 8 squad .
This season we met expectations . We did not over achieve
For our club to improve from this years effort we must do better next year than this years underwhelming finals exit .

Our consistency was markedly the best it's been in a decade this year ???
A decade marked by what ?
Our Benchmark is Winning Grand finals !

But winning a comp ain't easy.???
Especially when you dont have a Grand final Winning coach

I hope I am wrong and you are right because I want Manly to win a Grand final
But I have no faith in Seibold

We both want Manly being Premiers in 2025.

Now if Seibs is doing a great job and if he can get us to premiership glory for mine are unfortunately 2 different things.

And to find out if Seibs can take us all the way.

To find that one out Scotty needs his US connections and $ flowing.

Ok. I know we both put Bellamy & Bozo Fulton in that top shelf category of coaches.

The gut ache started coaching the Storm in 2003. Stripped of a Premiership in 2007 & 2009 for cheating the cap. So a club clearly willing to find a way with....$$$ to win.

So history will show took 9 years even for the painful one to (officially) win a comp.

Storm still owned by Murdock. So you think just $ to burn regardless of how many record books are kept.

They buy great juniors which is part of their sustained success. But belly clearly gets the best out of his players too.

Back when those great Manly teams had Premiership glory and set those high standards you speak of. It is interestingly Bozo Fulton had Kerri Packer he could debrief with.

Bennett the $$$ follows.

My point. Even the greatest of coaches need. $ for a premiership to follow.

Now as a top 6 coach Seibs can be considered a good coach, he's done better than most have achieved.

Now even if we do have a top 4 list right now. It's not Premiership capable yet.

What's the saying, premierships are won in the front office!

Now's the time for ahh sponsors to come a knocking, or Scotty to find a Sombrero perhaps.

Show us the 💰 🤑 Scotty. Give Seibs a chance.
 

Nambawan

Reserve Grader
We both want Manly being Premiers in 2025.

Now if Seibs is doing a great job and if he can get us to premiership glory for mine are unfortunately 2 different things.

And to find out if Seibs can take us all the way.

To find that one out Scotty needs his US connections and $ flowing.

Ok. I know we both put Bellamy & Bozo Fulton in that top shelf category of coaches.

The gut ache started coaching the Storm in 2003. Stripped of a Premiership in 2007 & 2009 for cheating the cap. So a club clearly willing to find a way with....$$$ to win.

So history will show took 9 years even for the painful one to (officially) win a comp.

Storm still owned by Murdock. So you think just $ to burn regardless of how many record books are kept.

They buy great juniors which is part of their sustained success. But belly clearly gets the best out of his players too.

Back when those great Manly teams had Premiership glory and set those high standards you speak of. It is interestingly Bozo Fulton had Kerri Packer he could debrief with.

Bennett the $$$ follows.

My point. Even the greatest of coaches need. $ for a premiership to follow.

Now as a top 6 coach Seibs can be considered a good coach, he's done better than most have achieved.

Now even if we do have a top 4 list right now. It's not Premiership capable yet.

What's the saying, premierships are won in the front office!

Now's the time for ahh sponsors to come a knocking, or Scotty to find a Sombrero perhaps.

Show us the 💰 🤑 Scotty. Give Seibs a chance.
First priority - secure a competitive dummy-half - otherwise same result next year
 

Darren

Bencher
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As long as croker is here alongside now Simpkin don’t think the club will be looking at hookers. Although that bulldogs 18 year old hooker we signed seemed to have some raps about him on the bulldogs forum
And the new Tigers kid has a gun hooker brother who may come over as well. Can't believe there isn't a young gun lerft side 2nd rower wanting to play first grade now. It's waiting. Must be a kid at Penrith or NZ.
 

BOZO

Journey Man
Tipping Member
Show us the 💰 🤑 Scotty. Give Seibs a chance.
Seibs had his chance this season
Going down heavily to the sharks and losing at home which cost us a critical Home final
Then being totally out played by the roosters and eliminated
Seibs has a Good roster
He has both origin captains
He has the Top Turbo and plenty of speed in the back line
He has accomplished halves
He has a Big pack and the unstoppable Haumole
What Seibold Has not done is over achieve
I do not believe that Seibold is the one to take Manly to the top
Scotty should have spent more money and got Bennett at Manly
You watch Souths go up the ladder next season
 

BOZO

Journey Man
Tipping Member
And a salary cap like the Roosters 🐓
The salary cap is only as affective as the astute people that manage it
Remember ...
It is not what you have
It is what you do with it
 
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globaleagle

01100111 01100101
Staff member
Premium Member
Tipping Member
A Johns on nine.com.au about how Bellamy recruits players:

The key - says Johns - is the unique recruitment policy Bellamy and his football boss Frank Ponissi have in place.

"They go back to the school, they will phone the principals, school teachers, they go to junior coaches, people in the area where they grew up - and if one or two people say 'he's a bit of a dick', they don't sign them," Johns said.

Well...in that case munster must have had to take out a huge bank loan to pay off everyone he knew as a kid.
 

BOZO

Journey Man
Tipping Member
A Johns on nine.com.au about how Bellamy recruits players:

The key - says Johns - is the unique recruitment policy Bellamy and his football boss Frank Ponissi have in place.

"They go back to the school, they will phone the principals, school teachers, they go to junior coaches, people in the area where they grew up - and if one or two people say 'he's a bit of a dick', they don't sign them," Johns said.
The Dick Perspective....
Every boy can be a bit of a dick . But some boys are bigger dicks than others
A Johns undoubtably a Great player was also a bit of a dick . So is the Magnificent Munster
But Great coaches get the better of them and keep them in line for most of the time

Red Alert ...
Who can ever forget A Johns Red hair day at Brookvale
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