Yep. Prounounced to rhyme with er...bleeth. Actually "teeth" would be a better example. Played a couple of hundred NRL games, very much the journeyman who wouldn't let you down.
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' des has stuffed our club once before' is a good one.
If you call 3 grandfinal appearances 2 wins and a decade of finals stuffed then i guess he has.
' dont let him give backended contracts'
I do agree here but again if he didnt then that side would have broken up after the 2008 GF win. But instead we had another 5 years of success due to the back ended contracts. Yes its stuffed us right now but what do people want... the devil always knocks down the door at somepoint to be repaid...
If you call 3 grandfinal appearances 2 wins and a decade of finals stuffed then i guess he has.
' dont let him give backended contracts'
I do agree here but again if he didnt then that side would have broken up after the 2008 GF win. But instead we had another 5 years of success due to the back ended contracts. Yes its stuffed us right now but what do people want... the devil always knocks down the door at somepoint to be repaid...
No loyalty. If he loved Manly he would have stayed instead of chasing fame and glory elsewhere.
And yet the same isn't said of Gutherson who left because the Dalai promised he would be fullback from 2017.
about Cleary leaving - maybe he didn't have the opportunity to stick with Manly and needed to work elsewhere. He's from here so I imagine he'd love to come back but cannot see why he would now.
Des is history - no turning back for either Club or him I reckon. Reunions can be a let down and too much happened for it to be possible I'd say.
It's a cycle and like Easts and Souths we have to start again. Need someone on the field to take control.. need a 5/8, a couple of tough young forwards and a Malcolm Reilly.. can't be that hard. The coach cannot create the play on the field but the one out crap cannot continue.
Des is history - no turning back for either Club or him I reckon. Reunions can be a let down and too much happened for it to be possible I'd say.
It's a cycle and like Easts and Souths we have to start again. Need someone on the field to take control.. need a 5/8, a couple of tough young forwards and a Malcolm Reilly.. can't be that hard. The coach cannot create the play on the field but the one out crap cannot continue.
Isn't it? I don't blame the club for letting him go, he wanted to leave. He has played well though.
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