Manly in Crisis (a mega thread)

[Oligarch]

Article also buried down the bottom there is another offer to buy the Sea Eagles, interesting that they used Perry to try and broker a deal

 

[Budgie]

Good, seems to be sorted for now. If proszenko opted to focus on the bid that suggests to me that there is no other story to tell. Because the bid is old news and a bit of non-event because the club isn’t for sale.

I don't think this particular bid is old news.
And, if there's any way to get rid of Penn, I can live with keeping Dessie and his stranded player on the bench.

 

[Eagle 1]

ok..Des will be coaching Manly in 23...tight arse Penn's not a big fan of early pay outs anyway, maybe Donny and Chad leaving, apart from a few staff departing, pretty much normal service I'd say.

 

[Brooke]

I don't think this particular bid is old news.
And, if there's any way to get rid of Penn, I can live with keeping Dessie and his stranded player on the bench.

Stranded player ?

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Stranded player ?

Stranded for 75 minutes is the usual

 

[Budgie]

Stranded player ?

The player he keeps fresh until the last five minutes of each game. Drives me nuts 😊

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Article also buried down the bottom there is another offer to buy the Sea Eagles, interesting that they used Perry to try and broker a deal

Dave Perry was an excellent CEO, had a lot to do with him , got shafted as he backed the wrong horse during the war.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

I really shouldn't be surprised, given the lack of professionalism at every level of our club, but I'm still kind of staggered by the lack of a statement/media release/Tweet/comment of any kind after yesterday's summit meeting between Des, Des's Manager, Tony Mestrov and Penn. If you want to take control of the narrative and put an end to the endless commentary and speculation, you need to at least say… something, right?

Does it mean that nothing was achieved? Or maybe they're counting on the finals kicking off tonight and taking the heat off. Bound to be a refereeing howler or player atrocity to hold everyone's attention for a couple of days…

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Dave Perry was an excellent CEO, had a lot to do with him , got shafted as he backed the wrong horse during the war.

He was. In more recent times he’s also been helping out North Sydney.

Of course Perry’s ultimate (Manly) fate was sealed when he sacked Zorba for his ‘imported via the 1966 time tunnel’ comment to a young female journalist in 2011.

From then on Peters corralled his allies like Rothfield (and maybe Ritchie) to keep referring to Perry as the ‘CEO with training wheels on’ in newspaper columns.

Funnily enough everyone has to start somewhere in their chosen profession/s. Including Zorba and Rothfield at some stage.

That obvious piece of logic apparently eluded them when they were attacking Perry.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

I really shouldn't be surprised, given the lack of professionalism at every level of our club, but I'm still kind of staggered by the lack of a statement/media release/Tweet/comment of any kind after yesterday's summit meeting between Des, Des's Manager, Tony Mestrov and Penn. If you want to take control of the narrative and put an end to the endless commentary and speculation, you need to at least say… something, right?

Does it mean that nothing was achieved? Or maybe they're counting on the finals kicking off tonight and taking the heat off. Bound to be a refereeing howler or player atrocity to hold everyone's attention for a couple of days…

You would hope that something appears today. It shouldn’t take to long for Dwayne Sisters to draft something, get it approved and then published.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

He was. In more recent times he’s also been helping out North Sydney.

Of course Perry’s ultimate (Manly) fate was sealed when he sacked Zorba for his ‘imported via the 1966 time tunnel’ comment to a young female journalist in 2011.

From then on Peters corralled his allies like Rothfield (and maybe Ritchie) to keep referring to Perry as the ‘CEO with training wheels on’ in newspaper columns.

Funnily enough everyone has to start somewhere in their chosen profession/s. Including Zorba and Rothfield at some stage.

That obvious piece of logic apparently eluded them when they were attacking Perry.

A real pity as he was a very sharp operator and took no **** !!

 

[BOZO]

Dave Perry was an excellent CEO, had a lot to do with him , got shafted as he backed the wrong horse during the war.

Smart CEO's are more political correct

 

[Forster eagle]

I'm loving it. 8 teams to write and talk about at the start of the semis and yet we get front and back pages. As it should be.

Got another 20 minutes coverage on NRL 360 last night. Arguing about stuff they can only guess on. This is of course the finals edition of 360. Imagine if we'd made the semis. Just pissing myself laughing.

 

[HK_Eagle]

I really shouldn't be surprised, given the lack of professionalism at every level of our club, but I'm still kind of staggered by the lack of a statement/media release/Tweet/comment of any kind after yesterday's summit meeting between Des, Des's Manager, Tony Mestrov and Penn. If you want to take control of the narrative and put an end to the endless commentary and speculation, you need to at least say… something, right?

Does it mean that nothing was achieved? Or maybe they're counting on the finals kicking off tonight and taking the heat off. Bound to be a refereeing howler or player atrocity to hold everyone's attention for a couple of days…

This is Penn's brilliant idea of free publicity.

 

[Oligarch]

Dave Perry was an excellent CEO, had a lot to do with him , got shafted as he backed the wrong horse during the war.

It’s obviously a better move to have someone in your tent who knows the club and its issues well if you are looking to buy it. As a comparator the broncos have a market cap of $126m, versus a rumoured bid price of 20m for Manly.

 

[Nordburg]

Things have some way to play out. It’s Des vs Mr Fluffy, aka Custard Face:

NRL 2022: Josh Schuster keeps training in the week after Manly Sea Eagles’ season ending as club still no closer to knowing whether Des Hasler will coach in 2024

The man considered pivotal to the future of the Manly coach has shunned an early start to his holidays as the club remain no closer to knowing if Hasler will still be in charge in 2024.

www.smh.com.au

I question the Clifford link given he was keen to head back to QLD because his partner and kid moved back there this year,hence why he had time off mid season

 

[niccipops]

Our #crisis has turned #boring
Maybe it will liven up again #nextweek 😛

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Our #crisis has turned #boring
Maybe it will liven up again #nextweek 😛

Remember I did say “ it’ll be all good #nextweek “

They just rehashed the same stories over and over today so I reckon they’ve run out of puff now.

 

[ALinda]

I question the Clifford link given he was keen to head back to QLD because his partner and kid moved back there this year,hence why he had time off mid season

I question what this means "Manly have been offered Newcastle No. 7 Jake Clifford as another halves option, are unlikely to take up the option as they seek insurance for Cherry-Evans and Schuster." ??

 

[Nordburg]

I question what this means "Manly have been offered Newcastle No. 7 Jake Clifford as another halves option, are unlikely to take up the option as they seek insurance for Cherry-Evans and Schuster." ??

May mean the Knights said “do you guys want Clifford?” and Manly just laughed