It is important to the Manly Sea Eagles that this partnership with Blacktown is a success. That growing area of Sydney will continue to produce a lot of RL juniors, which will bolster to relatively small numbers of juniors from the Manly-Warringah region.
To date the lack of on-field success of Blacktown has hindered our chances at NRL level, but it will be better when many of the Blacktown matches are played prior to our NRL matches so that we can watch the progress of players, like we used to do when reserve grade was played.
Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing these young fellas progress from junior wanna-be gangsters into the fully fledged real deal gangsters.