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[Mark from Brisbane]

So you think it’s actually Zorbalist not Zimbalist.

Well, he’s been on my back since day 1 and to be honest I’ve never said anything about him , so yes it could be!!

 

[Chip and Chase]

I love how demountables are associated with an inability to work productively and efficiently. There are thousands of construction and mining operations across this county with budgets / project values that dwarf the pissant $15mil the MWSE turnover - yet they survive quite well working out of temporary office space. Jesus half the classroom space at our local school is demountables these days. Kids aren't whining.

 

[Mals]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...d/news-story/09fb58a45ad7f35eb2e404a068739a86

The full and worrying extent of Manly’s troubles, on and off the field
MICHAEL CARAYANNISAugust 18, 2018 1:40pm
UNDERSTAFFED, under resourced and under fire.

The Manly Sea Eagles are reeling from yet another self-inflicted wound amid suggestions coach Trent Barrett resigned a month ago.

Now they are faced with an even tougher question: who would want to take control of the NRL’s worst club?

The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered startling figures that illustrate why Barrett reached breaking point leading a club playing out of the most dilapidated stadium in the NRL.

The once almighty Silvertails rank as one of the poorest clubs in the NRL.

Owner and chairman Scott Penn has poured more than $10 million of his own money into the club.

Serious concerns surround the club’s long term viability with their home crowd attendance slipping by 39 per cent in the past decade at Lottoland.

Manly are one of the lowest spending clubs in the NRL, confirming Barrett’s concerns that the club lacks the resources needed to compete with the competition’s big guns.

Club sources revealed that Manly spent just $13.7 million on their entire football department operations last year. That figure includes the $7 million spent on player contracts through the salary cap.

The total football club spend is about $5 million below some of the top spending clubs such as the Brisbane Broncos.

Manly sit alongside the Gold Coast Titans and Wests Tigers as the lowest spending clubs.

The NRL’s new $13 million club grant has been a saving grace for the Sea Eagles this year.

Requests for advances in grants from the NRL has been par for the course in recent seasons.

The football staff operate within demountables at Narrabeen where the number of staff is about three or four short compared to the rest of the NRL competition. Simple requests like club lunches or training camps that some clubs take for granted come with their own obstacles.

The biggest absence has been a head of recruitment, which has left the club with no long-term strategy to manage their player roster. There is also no chief operating officer since Neil Bare was banned for 12 months by the NRL for his role in the salary cap cheating in March.

The front office is not much better with a high level of turnover as the club operates on a shoestring budget. Most clubs employ about double the staff of the Sea Eagles.

They are still locked in a battle with the NRL regarding their salary cap punishment which included a $660,000 penalty applied to the club’s salary cap for this year and next year. A decision is expected by the end of this month.

Fans are also abandoning the Sea Eagles in their time of needed. The club has the second least amount of members in the NRL with just 12,000 — 2000 more than the least supported Titans. Rival Sydney clubs Parramatta (25,000) and South Sydney (29,000) have more than double the members of Manly.

Only once this year have more than 11,000 fans attended a home game at Lottoland with just 6382 turning up for their 6pm clash against the Titans on Friday night.

Their home crowds have been so poor that they will average less than 10,000 for the first time in 16 years at Brookvale, down 22.6 per cent on last year.

On the field, the situation is similarly dire.

After reaching 10 consecutive finals series from 2005 to 2014 the Sea Eagles will miss September action for the fourth time in five years.

With two weeks remaining they are in danger of “winning” the club’s first wooden spoon.

By my count we’ve missed the finals in 2015, 2016 & 2018. So that’s 3 times in the last 5 years. Still pretty cr@p but not as bad as Carayannis makes out.

 

[Cameron]

By the way, purely for everyone else reading this , I worked happily with the club from 2006-2013 the year I retired.

I never had a knockback for doing anything and worked very well with every CEO from Graham Lowe to David Perry.

With the clubs assistance we ran two very successful WCC tours and numerous MWTS events.

Whoever’s feeding him his information ( provably “ the leak “) is giving him some very wrong information.

I concluded my dealings with them after I ran the final MWTS tour with about 70 people to NZ in June 2013.

Never ever once was I “ knocked back” for anything!’

I don’t know who the flog is but he deserves a smack in the mouth.

You good bloke @Mark from Brisbane and deserve the **** this fool is trotting out.

 

[Cameron]

The silly thing is. If hasler and toovey were bought back in to the club memberships would boom.

People love tooves and while there would be angst about Des returning all that would be forgotten once the wins start flowing under his coaching

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

So you think it’s actually Zorbalist not Zimbalist.

I don’t think he would bother with being a member of this forum. Besides he is a journalist. He would probably take care with his grammar and syntax if and when he posts anything.

It could be someone who had a high profile in the Club’s relatively recent (9-16 years ago) past. And whose age matches that of Efrem/Stephanie.

 

[globaleagle]

Isnt that another rehash of the same **** we have been reading for weeks. Manly are going thru interviews for the recruitment officer, we tried to get O'Sullivan we will hire someone when we find the right person. I agree we need more funds but what can we do? Dont have a leauges club and not situated in league heartland like parra . Hasn't stopped us being successful in the past.

No new news is new sports 'journo' news.

Every day of the week.

 

[OneEyedEagle]

Or Zorba ( who hates me with a passion).

Don’t know what drugs he’s on because I had nothing other than an excellent business relationship with the organisation over an 8 year period.

Oh well to each their own I suppose.

Funny you say that, I was thinking the same thing after the garbage I had read by him.

@Mark from Brisbane , don't you worry about that antagonistic knob, his personal attacks are signs of person that has a hidden agenda. Its all clear for everyone to see.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Funny you say that, I was thinking the same thing after the garbage I had read by him.

@Mark from Brisbane , don't you worry about that antagonistic knob, his personal attacks are signs of person that has a hidden agenda. Its all clear for everyone to see.

Thanks buddy he’s on ignore now but doesn’t mean he can’t continue to bag me.

Hidden agenda for sure, he’s been attacking me for a while and I of all people on here don’t get into that petty game.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

The real shame is that as the club tries to implode some supporters on here are dead set on doing the same.

In no way am I saying we need to all agree with each other however, in times like this, let’s try to treat each other with respect

As we should ALWAYS do in rain, hail or shine!!

 

[mave]

Well unless you are a Barrett bagger... then you are just a num nut, sore bottomed, etc, etc.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Well unless you are a Barrett bagger... then you are just a num nut, sore bottomed, etc, etc.

I supported him for a fair while , and still don’t believe it’s all his fault , the stuff about demountable’s etc is just fluff, it’s not really about that.

My opinion only is it’s a mixture of 3 things.

1) key injuries at times, no Sirronen / Tafua first half of the year was a big loss and Walker at other times.

2) a **** roster , let’s face it we have a number of players who wouldn’t make it anywhere else.

3) Coaching shortfalls, including who picked and bench choices and or rotation.

Every one of those things have played a part.

And not just one!!