2026 recruitment & retention

[Scorpio]

Maybe...

I think we can overly hype and be overly harsh on some of our players.

Edge backrowers starting or on the bench this week or last for the top 4 as the ladder currently sits.

Joe Chan, Alec Mcdonald, Simi Sasagi, Harry Hayes, Billy Burns, Jess Colquhoun.

Now all opinions and obvs you can cherry pit as you please but I dont think Burbo would be out of place amongst that lineup.

There are some comparatively average players that have won premierships this decade, this gets forgotten pretty quickly... The whole being greater than the sum of the parts and all.

 

[CoreyWaddellSuperFan]

Exactly. It feels like the recruitment team are sabotaging us. You are right about the Roosters, they have completely turned over their squad in 3 years, and here they are with a great squad again.

No excuses. Something stinks royally at this club and we need a broom through the whole place.

That’s probably why I would rather we just stack the club with Manly legends as much as possible: coaching, recruitment (remember Crusher Cleal?).

Walk all the imposters out. They seem to be at Manly to earn money for themselves, not to bring success to the club, and fall into shiny offers from agents for players they could not offload at that price anywhere else.

Such sad times. Change the lot.

NYEagle

Malcolm Knox described us perfectly in his DCE piece:

the ownership vacuum that periodically blew its breezy nothingness through the revolving door of the front office