Read from the Tele as mentioned by someone earlier:
Beaver said:
“I tried to get Sam to Manly,” said Menzies, speaking for the first time about his plan to steer Burgess to Brookvale.
“I was close to Manly, so I rang them and I said, ‘You should check this guy out, he’s keen to come over, he can play, he will be a star in the NRL’.
“It was in 2009, my first year at Bradford, and Sam said he wanted to test himself in the NRL.
“I said, ‘Des, I know Sam wants to come (to the NRL), I don’t know how many other people know it yet, all I know is the kid can play, so do what you have to do’.
“Des said, ‘Yeah thanks, we’ll check it out’ and that was all I heard.
“You have to fit people in the budget, so I didn’t press much further than that. The next thing I heard the Bunnies got him, so full credit to Russell Crowe and Souths for taking a chance with him.”
--- There's the genius who obviously didn't rate Beaver's opinion. We could have had the whole clan. Maybe.