Lehi Hopoate

Lehi would have taken note on what happened to Albert after leaving Manly. Lehi loves it here at Manly, would take a lot of coaxing and then some to get him to leave Manly.
Maybe if it was Canberra knocking but if the Chooks want a replacement for Teddy in two years, it’ll be a different story.
 
Lehi does love Manly - True
But keep in mind Hoppa senior will be involved in getting a deal done at the highest or close to, when locking in the future of young Lehi....and there will be any number of teams knocking on the door.
My tip would be to start offering more "Life after football" opportunities to our young guns, when this situation arrives.
Other clubs seem to do this better than us and it can 100% make a difference to these vital decisions.
Winning helps also and in 2024, has definitely looked a happier camp for all the players in general.
 
Clubs need to be aware that Lehi may want to take two years off to do missionary work for the Church of Latter Day Saint.
 
Considering HIA and the modern game you can easily make the case for carrying a back on the bench - in an ideal world it would be a burbo style player who can move into other areas but I am not seeing that
 
Yes, that stood out to me too. It like he is playing in the backyard. He is so calm and collected.
Perhaps the most complete Manly junior (on arrival in first grade) since the great (and greatly underestimated for the first half of his career) Alan Thompson over 50 years ago.

And there have been some great ‘instant first graders’ out of the juniors since then, like P. Blake, G. Toovey and S. Menzies.
 

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