2026 recruitment & retention

[SeaEagleRock8]

You've got the wrong Shibasaki, SER8. Not the Bronco, his younger brother.

oh sorry! I didn't even know there more Shibasakis !

 

[Eagles4Life]

You've got the wrong Shibasaki, SER8. Not the Bronco, his younger brother.

We should get both of them. I think Garrick is gone, and Ray Vaega as well.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

We should get both of them. I think Garrick is gone, and Ray Vaega as well.

Wouldn't mind a big power centre. We've gone all in on speed recently but it sometimes comes up short

 

[Eagledare2dream]

We are doing better than them? You cant be serious, they are on the rise with a relatively young team whilst we are a team of dinosaurs 🦖 heading south.

Bloody oath I'm serious, get your facts right before U open your ####. There's no dinosaurs in our back line apart from D$E 36y & Brooks 30y, the Drags got Gutho 31y & Holmes 30y. D$E might be older but he was playing rep footy till 35y old.

Now compare the forwards, u average that out who's older

Manly
TKO 33y, MCK 33y, Brown 32y, Jake 31y, Lodge 30y, Toff 30y
Drags
Cook 34y, Debelin 34y, Eisenhuth 33y, Marina 32y, Klem 31y, Leilua 30y

2023- We finished 12th with 30pts a win away from top8, drags finished 2nd last with 16pts
2024- We finished 7th 33pts F/A +113, drags finished 11th F/A -126 with 28pts
2025- We're 2wins in front 5games to go.

-Drags play sharks,Warr-away, Rab-away, Eagles-away, Panthers, maybe they'll get 2-4pts at best.

-We play faid-away, tige-away but at Allianz stadium thank God, dolp at home will be a pack house 3pm Saturday, drag-away, warr-home. F/A would be much better for us against the drag if we didn't get smashed the last 2 games, but still +64 for us so scoring is not a problem.

Depend on who we get and what team we come up with for next year. Most of the dinosaurs will be gone, hopefully we don't sign anymore. Dame right we're doing better than them, and we'll get them this year also.

 

[Tomay]

Not sure why we would waste our time buying a 5/8 or centre when we have such a big deficiency in the forwards. Seems like a distraction

He had a great game in the middle for the tigers the other day. Could be a better version of the impact middle Walker became. For the right cash I’d take a punt.

 

[Cliffycomeback]

Has never started as a forward in NRL. Only as centre or wing.
Obviously can play, as he did fine in Origin, but Manly needs ... forwards !

Wrong brother mate.

 

[Sheikheagle]

Bloody oath I'm serious, get your facts right before U open your ####. There's no dinosaurs in our back line apart from D$E 36y & Brooks 30y, the Drags got Gutho 31y & Holmes 30y. D$E might be older but he was playing rep footy till 35y old.

Now compare the forwards, u average that out who's older

Manly
TKO 33y, MCK 33y, Brown 32y, Jake 31y, Lodge 30y, Toff 30y
Drags
Cook 34y, Debelin 34y, Eisenhuth 33y, Marina 32y, Klem 31y, Leilua 30y

2023- We finished 12th with 30pts a win away from top8, drags finished 2nd last with 16pts
2024- We finished 7th 33pts F/A +113, drags finished 11th F/A -126 with 28pts
2025- We're 2wins in front 5games to go.

-Drags play sharks,Warr-away, Rab-away, Eagles-away, Panthers, maybe they'll get 2-4pts at best.

-We play faid-away, tige-away but at Allianz stadium thank God, dolp at home will be a pack house 3pm Saturday, drag-away, warr-home. F/A would be much better for us against the drag if we didn't get smashed the last 2 games, but still +64 for us so scoring is not a problem.

Depend on who we get and what team we come up with for next year. Most of the dinosaurs will be gone, hopefully we don't sign anymore. Dame right we're doing better than them, and we'll get them this year also.

Calm down. Thought you were referring to wests.

 

[Disco]

I dont want Klemmer but I'm always surprised when people are like 'If the club do this I'm done'

Maybe they are but seems awfully melodramatic. Most of us here lived through the Northern Eagles and are still here....but a player signing would just lead you to stop supporting the club.

Sheesh.

 

[Eagledare2dream]

Calm down. Thought you were referring to wests.

Feel better now mate, thought u were referring to drags, compare to the tige we're dinosaurs. I was talking about us doing better than the drags over the years if he has to choose. But we've been better than both of them over many years, don't think for long though if the tige keep all their youngsters.

So hopefully we get rid of our dads-army and get some decent young & experience forwards for 2026. The only forwards I'll keep is Peseka, Ola, Ben, Bull, Simo, TKO & Jake for a year. I haven't seen much of Navale, Patolo, Laiafi to comment. C'mon Eagles