Club News 2024

[double hoops]

Can one of you “tech geniuses” get through the paywall please,apparently there’s a story on Manly “handing a lifeline” to a half.Unless someone already knows who they’re referring to

No tech geniuse. But U got a link. Sounds lbit like article on the 👠

 

[Rackets]

Can one of you “tech geniuses” get through the paywall please,apparently there’s a story on Manly “handing a lifeline” to a half.Unless someone already knows who they’re referring to

Tanah Boyd maybe? I don't know just having a guess. He's been told by Titans he's free to sign elsewhere.

 

[Hertera]

Can one of you “tech geniuses” get through the paywall please,apparently there’s a story on Manly “handing a lifeline” to a half.Unless someone already knows who they’re referring to

SEA EAGLES THROW FORGOTTEN HALF A LIFELINE
Manly are set to throw a lifeline to injured half Ronald Volkman with the parties close to agreeing to a deal for next season.

The Sea Eagles are keen for Volkman to join the club next season – potentially on the supplementary list – in a bid to strengthen their halves depth.

Volkman wants to resurrect his NRL career after this season was a complete write-off following a shoulder injury which needed to be repaired. He had agreed to join St George Illawarra from the Warriors this season but the injury scuppered the deal.

Volkman, 22, played five NRL games for the Warriors in 2022-23.

The Sea Eagles have stars Luke Brooks and Daly Cherry-Evans locked in for next season while back-up half Jake Arthur hasn’t played first grade this year and has not featured in NSW Cup since round 12 because of injury.

The Sea Eagles lose half option Jamie Humphreys to South Sydney next season.

 

[XV-1]

The Brookvale based 4 Pines Brewing Co have committed to plant 100 native trees, shrubs or grasses for every try scored by the Sea Eagles in 2024.
Ironically, Pine Trees (Pinus Radiata) are not native to Australia.

Neither are 4Pines 😄

 

[eagleron]

Can one of you “tech geniuses” get through the paywall please,apparently there’s a story on Manly “handing a lifeline” to a half.Unless someone already knows who they’re referring to

Ronald Volkman

 

[Marto1970]

Manly great Anthony Watmough savages club over plan to offload juniors, women’s programs

The Sea Eagles are also in discussions with Blacktown Workers about taking on their inaugural NRLW team.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Nordburg]

No tech geniuse. But U got a link. Sounds lbit like article on the 👠

Sorry,I forgot to post the link,thus proving even more incompetency with technology
Turns out it was Volkman

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Manly great Anthony Watmough savages club over plan to offload juniors, women’s programs

The Sea Eagles are also in discussions with Blacktown Workers about taking on their inaugural NRLW team.

www.smh.com.au

Hi Marto,I have attached the entire article so non-SMH subscribers can read it:


Manly great Anthony Watmough savages club over plan to offload juniors, women’s programs

By Andrew Webster
September 5, 2024 — 7.46pm

Manly great Anthony Watmough has savaged his club for proposing to move its junior and women’s programs away from the northern beaches amid fears the North Sydney Bears will snap up the region’s best young talent.

The Sea Eagles want to slash costs in their pathways system by “outsourcing” their junior representative teams to other areas – and have board approval to investigate.

Negotiations with the Central Coast Rugby League earlier this year broke down after a disagreement over costs.

On Monday, football general manager John Bonasera and recruitment manager Peter Gentle met with Blacktown Workers about taking on Manly’s Jersey Flegg (under-21s) and Harvey Norman NSW women’s premiership team.

Blacktown Workers has served as the Sea Eagles’ NSW Cup team since 2017, but the partnership is reportedly on the verge of collapse.

Sources familiar with issue, not authorised to speak publicly due to sensitive nature of the negotiations, said the meeting on Monday ended acrimoniously after neither Bonasera nor Gentle could provide details about funding nor how many players were already contracted.

Brad Parker celebrates scoring a try for the Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles.CREDIT: NRL PHOTOS

Manly’s desire to offload their junior teams has infuriated former players like Watmough, a two-time premiership winner who coaches the Sydney Shield team.

Former players such as Geoff Toovey, Brett Stewart, Matt Orford, Jamie Buhrer, and Solomon Haumono have been used in the club’s pathways for the past two years to infuse “Manly DNA” into the junior system.

Watmough, a Narrabeen Sharks junior, fears that good work will be undone.

“How this is a conversation is laughable,” he said. “Do they just not get it? Do they not understand the tribal nature of the game? If our fans’ kids aren’t playing for Manly, they won’t support Manly. They don’t want to travel to Blacktown to play NSW Cup or Flegg.

“Do they not get that the Bears, our biggest rival in history, is coming back into the NRL? Our fans and our people will just go. Do you think they’re going to support Manly if their kids are playing for North Sydney?

Anthony Watmough celebrates scoring a try for Manly in 2013.

Anthony Watmough celebrates scoring a try for Manly in 2013.CREDIT: ANTHONY JOHNSON
“I love this club and I hate to see the hard work of a lot of people destroyed by knee-jerk decisions.”

Manly chief executive Tony Mestrov would not answer questions specifically about offloading teams to Blacktown Workers or other leagues, but confirmed he had instigated a review of the club’s pathways four months ago.

“I wouldn’t call myself a pathways expert, but I know a hell of a lot,” he said. “I understand it and other people don’t. That’s no disrespect to them, but they don’t. I have for the last four months made it my job to review it to come up with a model that produces NRL players.”

Asked if Manly were abandoning their local juniors, he said: “That couldn’t be further from the truth. I have brought back the local juniors. This is where there is misconstruing of what is going on here.

“In Harold Matthews [under-17s] there are 23 players out of 33 who are local juniors. There’s a real focus on the local juniors. The club has had a focus on western Sydney. As of two years ago, that focus has changed to the local juniors. We want our local juniors to fill our rep jerseys. There’s a real vibe that local juniors are getting a go. That coincides with the home crowds and sellouts we’ve got.”

Which begs the question: why change it if it’s working?

“It’s so small-minded to think that your club’s success is determined by what the NRL side does,” Watmough said. “The community has been burned before. If they do it again, I don’t know how long it will take to rebuild the trust between the club and community.”

Manly coach Anthony Seibold denied he was one of the architects of the pathways overhaul.

“I have not personally been involved in any conversations around a restructure of the pathways,” he said via text message. “I have had others who work in that space discuss with me their proposals.

“The pathways are managed by the general manager, head of recruitment and pathways manager. I am not involved in that process other than being informed of what they are doing on a need-to-know basis. As the head coach my entire focus is the NRL program.”

Worktown Blackers declined to comment when contacted on Thursday.

 

[NREagle]

Thank you Brad.....you gave your all for our club. We can't ask for more than that.

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[double hoops]

Thank you Hank. When Manly needed a tough carry. You were always the man. Ran great lines. That tackle on Manu in your first game. Always courageous.

 

[The Wheel]

'If I get smashed, I get smashed': The back fence runs that made Nathan Brown a hero and saved his NRL career

With his NRL career on the line, all Nathan Brown could do was fight. Luckily for him and the Sea Eagles, that's exactly what the fiery prop forward does best, and Brookvale Oval has been reaping the rewards ever since.

www.abc.net.au

 

[BOZO]

'If I get smashed, I get smashed': The back fence runs that made Nathan Brown a hero and saved his NRL career

With his NRL career on the line, all Nathan Brown could do was fight. Luckily for him and the Sea Eagles, that's exactly what the fiery prop forward does best, and Brookvale Oval has been reaping the rewards ever since.

www.abc.net.au

Thank you @The Wheel
We all wish Nathan Brown a Smashing Good Time against the Sharks

 

[nightster]

The Brookvale based 4 Pines Brewing Co have committed to plant 100 native trees, shrubs or grasses for every try scored by the Sea Eagles in 2024.
Ironically, Pine Trees (Pinus Radiata) are not native to Australia.

Hoop Pines are though

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

Hoop Pines are though

And the famous Wollemi Pines.

 

[The Wheel]

Look out for Daly interviews every network tonight or this week. From NRL finals launch this morning.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Cannot wait.

No, actually, I can.

 

[Sheikheagle]

Does anyone know much about Daniel O’Donnell and what position he plays? I see he has won the players player award in Flegg. His old man was a handy hooker.

 

[Sheikheagle]

His a hooker
Played three games in NSW Cup
Did noticed he was the 9 and sometimes off the bench in Flegg

Lets hope he is a solution to our issues there.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Does anyone know much about Daniel O’Donnell and what position he plays? I see he has won the players player award in Flegg. His old man was a handy hooker.

He is DOD2. His dad is DOD1.

 

[The Wheel]

Turbo. Players player and best and fairest award of year

DCE member player of year

Froggy - club person of year