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I've got 17 years on you Mick, I've got Buckley's
Club News 2022
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Heckenberg
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I'd still put Foz as a club legend. Moreso than DCE. His first stint here was brilliant and I think his most recent redeemed him in my eyes.
And your still going strong Sir Eagleton
Keep on keeping on feathered friend !!!
Good to see that tribute, especially like the part about how he'd like to return to the club in some capacity down the track. The words of Des summed him up well. Also nice to see Schu post a message, the kid had such a tough year but getting to watch Foran at close quarters for 2 years should be a great base for his NRL education.
Kieran Foran… Sea Eagle 531
On behalf of all of us, we thank you Kieran for your exemplary contribution to our Club.www.seaeagles.com.au
Many thanks for this @Mitch. What an awesome tribute to Kieran and such a heartfelt interview. I'll always have him in the # 6 maroon & white jersey in my heart too.Kieran Foran… Sea Eagle 531
On behalf of all of us, we thank you Kieran for your exemplary contribution to our Club.
We're sure going to miss him in '23 and I hope he comes back to us sooner rather than later.
You would have to think he will be on the coaching staff in 2025
master blaster
Bencher
Exactly . Thats what we need players that want to be here and blokes like Foz being on the coaching staff would only attract other players to the club
OK, as a compromise can you be called Ryan but with MOD picture?
Terry Zarsoff
First Grader
The Ministry of Defence.
MadMarcus
Toovey for NRL CEO
The North Sydney Bears had past glories?
1921 and 1922
Yep ... 4 years before Queen Elizabeth II was born .....
More positive news for MWSE
Had it all’: NRL star who missed out on millions
A man was on a trajectory to be one of the great NRL players before he was arrested for stabbing a church leader, a court has been told.
Manase Fainu missed out on potential millions in career earnings and Des Hasler compared him to some of the best to ever play before his career was cut short when he stabbed a church leader in the back, a court has been told.
Three years ago Fainu was on track to be one of the NRL’s shining lights.
But he is now facing the prospect of spending his prime years in prison after he was found guilty of plunging a steak knife into the back of Faamanu Levi at a Mormon church dance at Wattle Grove in southwestern Sydney.
Fainu, 24, on Friday sat silently in Parramatta’s District Court as he waited to learn his fate after a jury earlier this year found him guilty of one count of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The jury found that Fainu stabbed Mr Levi in the back near his shoulder blade during a brawl, also involving four of his mates, in the carpark of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the evening of October 25, 2019.
In a victim impact statement tendered to the court, Mr Levi detailed how he was still struggling with the physical effects of having his lungs pierced by the knife, forcing him to abandon his dream of becoming a police officer.
“I wake most nights in terror, as it haunts my dreams,” Mr Levi said in a victim impact statement that was tendered during a sentence hearing on Friday.
“I am always watching my back and live in constant fear that this could happen again.”
It was not in issue during the trial that Fainu was in the carpark and that he had his arm in a sling at the time after undergoing shoulder surgery a month earlier.
But he denied playing any part in the stabbing or the brawl, claiming it was a case of mistaken identity.
Fainu’s lawyers have previously flagged that they would appeal the jury’s verdict.
During his trial, the court was told that during the evening, two of Fainu’s friends – including Uona “Big Buck” Faingaa – were involved in an altercation on the dance floor and escorted out of the church.
The group then drove to an adjoining Coles carpark and CCTV showed Fainu and his friends jump over a concrete fence back into the church grounds where the brawl erupted.
One eyewitness, Tony Quach, told the court that he saw Fainu, with his arm in a sling, stab Mr Levi.
At the time of the stabbing, Fainu had been earmarked as one of the NRL’s rising stars and was set to inherit the Sea Eagles No.9 jersey in 2020.
However, he was stood down under the NRL’s no-fault policy and has not taken the field since September 2019.
Fainu’s barrister Margaret Cunneen SC argued that at the time the Tongan Test representative was on a trajectory to earn a million-dollar-a-year contract.
Mr Hasler, in a personal reference tendered to the court, compared Fainu to some of the great players who he had worked with.
“As the coach of the Manly Sea Eagles, I have the good fortune to work with some of the best players that have ever played the game,” Mr Hasler said in his statement.
“In writing this short note to share my thoughts about Manase, I compared the qualities, skills, capacity and natural flair of the so-called best to Manase and genuinely believe that Manase had it all and more.
“This man had the world at his feet post-2019. I have absolutely no doubt that he was destined for greatness.”
Mr Hasler said he hoped Fainu could be a “phoenix of sorts” and rise to the “fires of his challenges” upon his release.
CCTV played in court has shown rising NRL star Manase Fainu jumping over a fence into a Mormon church shortly before a wild brawl that ended in a stabbing.
Fainu’s mother Lile Fainu told the court on Friday that her son was caring and instrumental in bringing up his younger brothers and sisters.
She said their family, which included eight children, struggled to make ends meet and at the time of the stabbing he was intending to buy the family a house.
When asked by Ms Cunneen if he was the kind of person who would stab someone, Ms Fainu said: “It’s not the Manase I know and it’s not the Manase I raised.”
Ms Cunneen argued that the stabbing was not “vicious” but rather “instantaneous, simple, terrible, but one application of the knife”, noting Finau had not inflicted any harm after the first stab wound.
Fainu will return to court for the second half of his sentence hearing in November before he is sentenced at a later date.
With Cunneen arguing that the stabbing was spontaneous and not vicious, it's looking like they won't appeal. Cunneen seems more interested in putting forward arguments that will mitigate Fainu's sentence. Such a tragic waste of talent.
It's about time that the last Fainu hangouts on here accept that not only was Fainu found guilty, but he is guilty, and always has been. His adherence to gang rules (particularly in his evidence) have cost him everything. Perhaps its a good time for Olakau'atu et al to re-think his associations as well.
Had it all’: NRL star who missed out on millions
A man was on a trajectory to be one of the great NRL players before he was arrested for stabbing a church leader, a court has been told.
Manase Fainu missed out on potential millions in career earnings and Des Hasler compared him to some of the best to ever play before his career was cut short when he stabbed a church leader in the back, a court has been told.
Three years ago Fainu was on track to be one of the NRL’s shining lights.
But he is now facing the prospect of spending his prime years in prison after he was found guilty of plunging a steak knife into the back of Faamanu Levi at a Mormon church dance at Wattle Grove in southwestern Sydney.
Fainu, 24, on Friday sat silently in Parramatta’s District Court as he waited to learn his fate after a jury earlier this year found him guilty of one count of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The jury found that Fainu stabbed Mr Levi in the back near his shoulder blade during a brawl, also involving four of his mates, in the carpark of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the evening of October 25, 2019.
In a victim impact statement tendered to the court, Mr Levi detailed how he was still struggling with the physical effects of having his lungs pierced by the knife, forcing him to abandon his dream of becoming a police officer.
“I wake most nights in terror, as it haunts my dreams,” Mr Levi said in a victim impact statement that was tendered during a sentence hearing on Friday.
“I am always watching my back and live in constant fear that this could happen again.”
It was not in issue during the trial that Fainu was in the carpark and that he had his arm in a sling at the time after undergoing shoulder surgery a month earlier.
But he denied playing any part in the stabbing or the brawl, claiming it was a case of mistaken identity.
Fainu’s lawyers have previously flagged that they would appeal the jury’s verdict.
During his trial, the court was told that during the evening, two of Fainu’s friends – including Uona “Big Buck” Faingaa – were involved in an altercation on the dance floor and escorted out of the church.
The group then drove to an adjoining Coles carpark and CCTV showed Fainu and his friends jump over a concrete fence back into the church grounds where the brawl erupted.
One eyewitness, Tony Quach, told the court that he saw Fainu, with his arm in a sling, stab Mr Levi.
At the time of the stabbing, Fainu had been earmarked as one of the NRL’s rising stars and was set to inherit the Sea Eagles No.9 jersey in 2020.
However, he was stood down under the NRL’s no-fault policy and has not taken the field since September 2019.
Fainu’s barrister Margaret Cunneen SC argued that at the time the Tongan Test representative was on a trajectory to earn a million-dollar-a-year contract.
Mr Hasler, in a personal reference tendered to the court, compared Fainu to some of the great players who he had worked with.
“As the coach of the Manly Sea Eagles, I have the good fortune to work with some of the best players that have ever played the game,” Mr Hasler said in his statement.
“In writing this short note to share my thoughts about Manase, I compared the qualities, skills, capacity and natural flair of the so-called best to Manase and genuinely believe that Manase had it all and more.
“This man had the world at his feet post-2019. I have absolutely no doubt that he was destined for greatness.”
Mr Hasler said he hoped Fainu could be a “phoenix of sorts” and rise to the “fires of his challenges” upon his release.
CCTV played in court has shown rising NRL star Manase Fainu jumping over a fence into a Mormon church shortly before a wild brawl that ended in a stabbing.
Fainu’s mother Lile Fainu told the court on Friday that her son was caring and instrumental in bringing up his younger brothers and sisters.
She said their family, which included eight children, struggled to make ends meet and at the time of the stabbing he was intending to buy the family a house.
When asked by Ms Cunneen if he was the kind of person who would stab someone, Ms Fainu said: “It’s not the Manase I know and it’s not the Manase I raised.”
Ms Cunneen argued that the stabbing was not “vicious” but rather “instantaneous, simple, terrible, but one application of the knife”, noting Finau had not inflicted any harm after the first stab wound.
Fainu will return to court for the second half of his sentence hearing in November before he is sentenced at a later date.
With Cunneen arguing that the stabbing was spontaneous and not vicious, it's looking like they won't appeal. Cunneen seems more interested in putting forward arguments that will mitigate Fainu's sentence. Such a tragic waste of talent.
It's about time that the last Fainu hangouts on here accept that not only was Fainu found guilty, but he is guilty, and always has been. His adherence to gang rules (particularly in his evidence) have cost him everything. Perhaps its a good time for Olakau'atu et al to re-think his associations as well.
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Well that sounds like that then. So if Cunneen is now saying he did stab the bloke, the defence was a sham and Des put his reputation on the line for nothing. With all that's going on, Des must feel bloody fantastic. No matter whether you're for Des staying or not, I certainly feel for the bloke.
Fainu is a dumb POS and time to forget about the waste of space he is. He dragged Manly down for 3 years with his lies and more lies.
His family and friends must be so proud.
No she is simply referring to the facts that the jury found, based on the Crown case. She has to try to highlight everything possible in mitigation, obviously she can't say he is sorry because he has denied guilt. He can't appeal the finding of guilt until after the case is finalised, which will be when the sentence is handed down, so if he goes ahead with an appeal we'll find out later. His barrister initially seemed adamant there would be an appeal.
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I got the impression they were giving up on the appeal but that could just be the journos interpretation. But then, I'm terrible at impressions.
We will have to wait and see @SeaEagleRock8 Personally, I think Cunneen will initially appeal both severity and conviction after sentencing but will narrow the grounds to severity only at the hearing. I think she knows full well she won't get up on conviction. However, I never worked that side and I have seen stranger things happen over the years.
Wonder if this included our "home" game at Suncorp?
| Team | P | W | L | PD | Pts |
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5 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 10 |
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5 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 10 |
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6 | 4 | 2 | 48 | 8 |
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6 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 8 |
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5 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 8 |
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5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 7 |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 7 |
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6 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 6 |
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6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 6 |
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6 | 3 | 3 | -13 | 6 |
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5 | 2 | 3 | -15 | 6 |
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6 | 3 | 3 | -36 | 6 |
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6 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 4 |
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6 | 2 | 4 | -7 | 4 |
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5 | 0 | 5 | -86 | 2 |
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6 | 1 | 5 | -102 | 2 |
