Last 10 years recruitment gains

[Frogz]

Just sitting back on a quiet Monday and thought id flick thru Wiki and see what our last 10 years gains look like.
Anyway this is the list....

2014...
Gains: Cheyse Blair, Josh Starling, Delroy Berryman, Jayden Hodges, Tyson Andrew

2015

Gains[edit]​

Player	Signed from	Until end of	Notes
Willie Mason	Newcastle Knights	2015	[1]
Feleti Mateo	New Zealand Warriors	2016	[2]
Siosaia Vave	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	2016	[3]
Brayden Wiliame	Newcastle Knights	-	[4]
Blake Leary	North Queensland Cowboys	2016	[5]

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2016

Gains[edit]​

• Rhys Armstrong from Wests Tigers
• Lewis Brown from Penrith Panthers
• Addin Fonua-Blake from St George Illawarra Dragons
• Pita Godinet from Wakefield Trinity Wildcats[1]
• Fabian Goodall from Parramatta Eels
• Nathan Green from St George Illawarra Dragons
• Isaac John from Penrith Panthers
• Dylan Kelly from Berkeley Vale Panthers
• Apisai Koroisau from Penrith Panthers
• Halauafu Lavaka from Parramatta Eels
• Darcy Lussick from Parramatta Eels
• Tim Moltzen from Wests Tigers
• Nate Myles from Gold Coast Titans
• Matt Parcell from Brisbane Broncos
• Martin Taupau from Wests Tigers
• Siosaia Vave from Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
• Dylan Walker from South Sydney Rabbitohs
• Matthew Wright from North Queensland Cowboys[2]
• Tom Wright from rugby union

2017
Gains

• Cameron Cullen from Gold Coast Titans
• Blake Green from Melbourne Storm
• Jackson Hastings from Sydney Roosters
• Brian Kelly from Gold Coast Titans
• Jarrad Kennedy from Canberra Raiders
• Shaun Lane from New Zealand Warriors
• Lloyd Perrett from Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
• Peter Schuster from rugby union
• Curtis Sironen from Wests Tigers
• Kelepi Tanginoa from Parramatta Eels
• Akuila Uate from Newcastle Knights
• Jonathan Wright from New Zealand Warriors

2018

Player	2017 Club	2018 Club	Ref
Joel Thompson	St George Illawarra Dragons	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[2][3]

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2019

Trent Hodkinson	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[1]
Brendan Elliot	Gold Coast Titans	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[2]
Kane Elgey	Gold Coast Titans	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[3]
Reuben Garrick	St. George Illawarra Dragons	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[4]

2020​

Gains[edit]​

Player	2019 Club	2020 Club	Ref
Danny Levi	Newcastle Knights	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[5]
Morgan Harper	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	[6]

2021 gains​

• Josh Aloiai from Wests Tigers
• Andrew Davey from Parramatta Eels
• Kieran Foran from Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
• Christian Tuipulotu from Sydney Roosters
• Jason Saab from St. George Illawarra Dragons

2022 Gains

Playe	Club	Until	Source
Ethan Bullemor	Brisbane Broncos	2023	[3]

2023
Gains

Ben Condon North QLD Cowboys2025[8]
Austin Dias Wests TigersTBC[9]
Cooper Johns Melbourne Storm2023[10]
Kelma Tuilagi Wests Tigers2025[11]

 

[DieHardManlyFan]

I understand we have a large stake of our cap tied up in our big three but this just shows that there’s more at play than just that. Through our dominant years players would play for less to play for a club that offered more than football. Hope we can fix our issues off the field so it can start translating to success on it.

 

[Budgie]

Ouch

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I understand we have a large stake of our cap tied up in our big three but this just shows that there’s more at play than just that. Through our dominant years players would play for less to play for a club that offered more than football. Hope we can fix our issues off the field so it can start translating to success on it.

The games changed , the managers have a much bigger say now , our recent exits are good examples , they didn’t want to leave but were talked into it for the $$$$

And don’t let that bull**** that the Roosters players stay for less money influence you , that’s absolutely crap.

 

[Rocky]

To be expected.

Not like we are going to recruit absolute marquee names when DCE was already on the team and Jurbo and Turbo are home grown.

 

[Frogz]

To be expected.

Not like we are going to recruit absolute marquee names when DCE was already on the team and Jurbo and Turbo are home grown.

T Brothers updated in 2019. Was 5 years before that with nothing.

 

[John Nicholson]

Not many left (if they are still any good anyway?) and not many starred after leaving Manly.

Not a good report card for our scouts; to their credit, some jnrs may kick on.

We have to identify our (many) weak positions and buy one or two Mr Bigs to lead the team.

I don't think Aaron Woods or his predecessors Nate Myles etc fit the bill at the end of their careers.

 

[Uk eagle]

To be expected.

Not like we are going to recruit absolute marquee names when DCE was already on the team and Jurbo and Turbo are home grown.

Do they have to be marquee names? A decent set-up would identify and develop the unknowns into good quality players

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

**** me, I’d forgotten we signed Tim Moltzen. Along with a few returning favourites, what a list of the once weres and never would bes…

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

T Brothers updated in 2019. Was 5 years before that with nothing.

We still had the big names on very big money from our premiership winning teams until 2017. When they left we got Taupau, trumpeted at the time as the greatest signing in Manly's history (might even have been Arko who said that?) and also Walker. Both Turbos were up and about by then too and their pay packets were never small and quickly became huge.

We were hamstrung in recruitment by having to pay DCE a few 100k more because the club botched those Foz/Cherry negotiations, then we had a salary cap penalty which held us back for 2 or 3 years.

 

[Rocky]

Do they have to be marquee names? A decent set-up would identify and develop the unknowns into good quality players

You mean identify guys like Haumole and Koula when they were youngsters?

Or identify players like Saab and Garrick? When were they fringe first graders at an average club like St George?

I'm not giving the Manly club a free pass for their recruitment. They could have done better and so could every club.

But Spoiler alert - there are 15 and now 16 other teams trying to find the best talent out there.

 

[Woodsie]

That HIM ... that's the bloke I was trying to think of .... Cameron Cullen .... he was another World's greatest Dummy half .. who we just had to get into first grade to replace Api ... because Api was ****house and threw passes like a brickie ....

 

[manly al]

Cullen was another manufactured 9 and whose best positions were in the halves . A very competitive bugger though and would have a decent go in any position Had to make the choice between Manise Fainu and API , seemed a good idea [ just ] at the time opting for Manise, just the unpredictability of fate for it to be eventually a negative

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

We still had the big names on very big money from our premiership winning teams until 2017. When they left we got Taupau, trumpeted at the time as the greatest signing in Manly's history (might even have been Arko who said that?) and also Walker. Both Turbos were up and about by then too and their pay packets were never small and quickly became huge.

We were hamstrung in recruitment by having to pay DCE a few 100k more because the club botched those Foz/Cherry negotiations, then we had a salary cap penalty which held us back for 2 or 3 years.

But how conveniently everyone will forget many of those situations and just blame it on “ **** recruitment by a ****ed up club”.