Best and worst recruitment decisions

[Mark from Brisbane]

Without doubt Dollarevens is the worse signing by far, closely followed by Myles. And as someone reminded me in another thread, Myles came as a deal to appease DollarEvans. I mean, what a fuk up.

Best: plenty that have been great, but as others have mentioned BK And the great J Lyon for me.

DollarEvans ......lol, one of your funniest.

 

[47MVEagle]

Craig Field

 

[SeaEagle007]

ALot of people may disagree, the Decision to let Gutherson go was imo one of the biggest howlers.. Should of kept him instead of signing Walker. Guy can cover 5/8 , centres and Fullback , and can kick goals. I know where he would be playing right now and we wouldn't be missing a beat..

 

[Snake]

Those of you who have been cowering in the fetal position concerning Schuster leaving, should get some good news soon.

 

[Daddycool]

A bit left field but I’m going to say, Scott Penn for

1. Not agreeing to the $50k contract extension Des was after, in early 2011 when he and the club, were in the middle of a potentially multi premiership run.
2. Releasing Foran when he could have re-signed in early 2014.
3. Signing DCE to that massive 8 year $10M contract that has been hindering our recruitment ever since

 

[madmax]

Worst recruitment decision ??? There's alot of them! Letting AFB go, signing chez for life.. the massive trbojevic brother contracts, letting gutho go, not letting matai get his massive payday at the warriors after all he had done for the club, extensions of parker and taufua etc.
Best recruitment decision? Probably BK and Killer

Agree except the Gutherson decision.

 

[Mitch]

Those of you who have been cowering in the fetal position concerning Schuster leaving, should get some good news soon.

How could this be? We can't have any good news posted on this forum mate!

 

[jbb/james]

Best
Des as coach round 1. He was not a proven coach
The stewies
Kite
Bk
Ridge . From union, small frame but instantly gave the team steel with his attitude

I also wrapped with other posters throwing up matai and shane Rodney. Good buys
Letting go of T Rex - phew
Getting rid of dank just in the nick of time

Worst
Letting tooves go and part of our soul.
DCE
Losing gifty in the manner we did which in turn lost our culture and the opportunity for succession planning
Bozo fulton as footy figure to rebuild after it went to **** and responsible for a lot of our current mess
Barrett. Not a reflection on his coaching at all. Just poor timing for the club, team, etc.
deveraux and ropati, hight profile names - zero retun

 

[Cioran]

ALot of people may disagree, the Decision to let Gutherson go was imo one of the biggest howlers.. Should of kept him instead of signing Walker. Guy can cover 5/8 , centres and Fullback , and can kick goals. I know where he would be playing right now and we wouldn't be missing a beat..

We just couldn't get Gutho onto the field., Every time he tied his shoe laces at Brookie he did a ligament. He's become unbreakable at Parra and has had a chance to show his skills. We only had hints of how good he was going to be.

I might point out that we had to sell Gutho to stay under the salary cap and the eels signed him when they were already a million over the cap. But that's just the way the NRL works.

 

[Peter C]

Smokin Joe Gulavao, gave great service for someone I thought WTF are you thinking signing this bloke?,certainly proved me wrong.
I hope I'm wrong again, this time with Foran

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

Just a shut out to the recruitment of Graham Eadie. His contribution to the teams that dominated in the seventies can't be underestimated. In an era of fatigue he was agile and strong for 80 minutes.

“The greenhorn kid who came down to join Manly from Woy Woy in 1971 and stayed 13 seasons and imprinted his name among the ‘greats’."
Ian Heads Rugby League Week

Hall of Fame:

Graham Eadie

Graham Eadie, Australia's Test fullback after Graeme Langlands, played 237 first-grade games for Manly, and 12 Tests for Australia.

www.nrl.com

 

[Waz13]

Best
Des as coach round 1. He was not a proven coach
The stewies
Kite
Bk
Ridge . From union, small frame but instantly gave the team steel with his attitude

I also wrapped with other posters throwing up matai and shane Rodney. Good buys
Letting go of T Rex - phew
Getting rid of dank just in the nick of time

Worst
Letting tooves go and part of our soul.
DCE
Losing gifty in the manner we did which in turn lost our culture and the opportunity for succession planning
Bozo fulton as footy figure to rebuild after it went to **** and responsible for a lot of our current mess
Barrett. Not a reflection on his coaching at all. Just poor timing for the club, team, etc.
deveraux and ropati, hight profile names - zero retun

Lyon not in the best list???

 

[Damien2812]

Worst decisions will be DCE's, Turbo's and Jake's salary. Best signing Jamie Lyon.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

Worst recruitment decision ??? There's alot of them! Letting AFB go, signing chez for life.. the massive trbojevic brother contracts, letting gutho go, not letting matai get his massive payday at the warriors after all he had done for the club, extensions of parker and taufua etc.
Best recruitment decision? Probably BK and Killer

Let me try to break this down.

Letting AFB go - he wanted out and was playing like it last year. No motivation, no desire. How do you as a club fix that? You can't.

signing chez for life - directly caused by Foz and his Games in the contract debacle. Dce was gone so obviously had to dangle a huge carrot to stay... yes poor decision but unavoidable in a way.


the massive trbojevic brother contracts - see ya Manly. Those boys could have walked out the door for more money at any point. There would have been a world war had they been allowed to walk.


letting gutho go - 2 knees gone in 2 years. Still had most of the golden era players on contract. Yes sure would have loved if he had stayed in retrospect but at the time looked an OK decision.

not letting matai get his massive payday at the warriors after all he had done for the club. Agree pretty poor.

extensions of parker and taufua etc - tafua was good for a number of years. Injuries have caught up with him.

Parker. Yep I've got nothing. Sorry.

Bad decisions are only bad decisions when seen in retrospect with current knowledge.

I should have bought that funking bitcoin back in 2011 when I had a chance. What a cock I am.....

 

[jbb/james]

Lyon not in the best list???

I suppose i compiled my list based on shrewd recruiting. Lyon was always going to be special. But he was a very good recruit

 

[Go manly]

There is one clear winner
Mr Plod was a disgrace

Too many goodens to list but
BK
Malcom Reilly
Frank Stanton
All contributed to early success and our heritage and cultures & made us team to be feared

 

[wombatgc]

Horo played well in 13 and 15,both were contract renewal years

That’ll do it.

 

[wombatgc]

There is one clear winner
Mr Plod was a disgrace

By a cunntry mile.

 

[XV-1]

Worst decisions will be DCE's, Turbo's and Jake's salary. Best signing Jamie Lyon.

Better than Cliff Lyons?

 

[Damien2812]

Better than Cliff Lyons?

Hard to answer since both were influential players in their football careers