New signings to be announced #nextweek

[HappilyManly]

By the way it’s “ next week “ right now, but of course it could still be “ next week”.

Lottoland is on Mercury

 

[Fluffy]

maybe its 9/10/3017?

 

[Blake A]

Harry I have to disagree. I think Kelly in only his first year in League did an outstanding job. he had a lapse mid season (not at all surprising for a first year player) and came back with a bang. The kid has silky skills and by next year could be rep standard

1- trboyevic
2-taufua
3-walker
4-hopoate
5-uate
6-green
7-dce
Kelly does not make that backline, and he is nowhere near a rep player standard.... yet

 

[Deleted member 26876]

1- trboyevic
2-taufua
3-walker
4-hopoate
5-uate
6-green
7-dce
Kelly does not make that backline, and he is nowhere near a rep player standard.... yet

That is one hell of a backline

 

[Bearfax]

1- trboyevic
2-taufua
3-walker
4-hopoate
5-uate
6-green
7-dce
Kelly does not make that backline, and he is nowhere near a rep player standard.... yet

We'll see Blakey. Kelly may have gone off the boil a little at one stage this year, but do you really think Hopoate played any better for Canterbury. Hopate hasnt been 'The Star' since he left Manly. He'll be coming back on memories rather than form.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Perhaps it was 9/10/1917 - the first announcement about upgrading brookvale oval. Apparently we had secured funding from the NSW Premier, Jack Lang.

Yep Jack wouldn’t **** around would he?

 

[Holmsey]

1- trboyevic
2-taufua
3-walker
4-hopoate
5-uate
6-green
7-dce
Kelly does not make that backline, and he is nowhere near a rep player standard.... yet

Hopoate isnt even first grade standard. I dont see the up side in signing an overrated slow centre for over 500k while we can have Kelly who is first year in and had a much better season than Flopoate.

 

[Deleted member 26876]

Hopoate isnt even first grade standard. I dont see the up side in signing an overrated slow centre for over 500k while we can have Kelly who is first year in and had a much better season than Flopoate.

We likely wouldn't sign him for over 500K, but regardless of price you need to factor in that he was playing with parramatta during their wooden spoon glory years, and then the dogs in their '****ING SACK DES'-Kennel member years. Hoppa was always under the ball and always was reliable. He will be great for helping trbo. At centre, in a team that has a right to play football, and in a team with players like dce, walker, uate, trbo, taufua etc, he will be able to show his true ability again.

For an entertaining tonga side he played brilliantly, for the shocking dogs and eels he has a positive, although small impact (imo due to circumstances). There is a correlation there. If he comes to manly, I strongly believe he'll fix up the defence on our weakest edge, he'll tutor trbo on field positioning and he'll get the best out of surrounding players through all his ball handling skills and through the new skills learnt he'd have learnt at the back over the years

 

[HappilyManly]

Wills has talent to spare, plus he has grown and filled out to add strength to his defensive skills

He wouldn't be on more than 300k, as the Dogs were a last minute reprieve after his Parra TPA fell over

Hoppa is an asset

 

[Holmsey]

We likely wouldn't sign him for over 500K, but regardless of price you need to factor in that he was playing with parramatta during their wooden spoon glory years, and then the dogs in their '****ING SACK DES'-Kennel member years. Hoppa was always under the ball and always was reliable. He will be great for helping trbo. At centre, in a team that has a right to play football, and in a team with players like dce, walker, uate, trbo, taufua etc, he will be able to show his true ability again.

For an entertaining tonga side he played brilliantly, for the shocking dogs and eels he has a positive, although small impact (imo due to circumstances). There is a correlation there. If he comes to manly, I strongly believe he'll fix up the defence on our weakest edge, he'll tutor trbo on field positioning and he'll get the best out of surrounding players through all his ball handling skills and through the new skills learnt he'd have learnt at the back over the years

He will not come for any less that 500k, he is on 600k at Dogs and he would even be worth it if he came at 300k. He has no x factor what so ever, no speed or skill. He is a solid first grader nothing more. And I do not want him teaching Tom, as Hoppa him self is a centre/winger.

He had the chance to play footy in 2016 with the Dogs behind a power pack and did nothing. He would be up there with signing Lewis Brown to play centre as a bad signing.

 

[Deleted member 26876]

He will not come for any less that 500k, he is on 600k at Dogs and he would even be worth it if he came at 300k. He has no x factor what so ever, no speed or skill. He is a solid first grader nothing more. And I do not want him teaching Tom, as Hoppa him self is a centre/winger.

He had the chance to play footy in 2016 with the Dogs behind a power pack and did nothing. He would be up there with signing Lewis Brown to play centre as a bad signing.

The dogs pack were practically the same as 2016. I didn't see anything bad from him this year, he was just quiet, and had no opportunities due to his side, which as a fullback is needed. At centre he can get involved more often without being dependent on service from players around him. Their forwards were pathetic, got over-involved and were slow. No back can do anything with such a ****ty foundation, there's a reason they had to sign Woods, a hugely expensive forward. Hoppa's positioning was up there with the best in the comp so no reason he shouldn't teach trbo at least that, as trbo was constantly found out in that aspect this season.

Didn't you want a Morris brother? They've done less in their last 3 years than Lewis Brown and Nate Myles combined

Hoppa averaged 178.9 metres a game this season and displayed his defencive efficiency once again. He played a ball playing fullback role, although the problem was that the dogs were too bad to ever get him in good field position, and even failed to get the ball to him at times because of their slow passes from their shocking forwards

Agree to disagree

 

[Shoe1]

Perhaps it was 9/10/1917 - the first announcement about upgrading brookvale oval. Apparently we had secured funding from the NSW Premier, Jack Lang.

Governor Arthur Phillip passed through Beacon Hill on his way to Broken Bay in 1789, naming the landmark.

He was heard to remark to Capt Tench and Capt Hunter that he would set aside the substantial sum of 25 pounds for the development of sports grounds at the bottom of that hill next week.

 

[Budgie]

It’s a bit like that isn’t it?

The worst parts of off season are ( same most years).

1) not knowing what the final make up will be for the next year, and often we won’t know until December, so that’s two full months of this crap, and two months of rumours, posters discrediting each other’s rumours and slagging off at the sports journo’s ( that part I like ).

2) then from about February , when the Silvertails natives are starting to get very restless and most threads degenerate into a mud slinging , name calling children’s playground.

Thank goodness inbetween there’s fishing and cricket!

PS: that last comment is sure to bring out some dislikes!!!

You forgot the bit where we sign some bum from another club who everyone hails as the next messiah, building up our hopes for a premiership winning season and then the bum turns out to be nothing more than ... a bum!

 

[Snake]

Someone needs to inform the football department at Manly that they're looking at bringing Hopoate over from Canterbury, because they aren't aware of it. The guy signed a contract to play 1 at the Dogs and he would have to play centre at Manly...something I imagine he and his manager are not overly keen on doing, given the money that a fullback can generate in the market, as opposed to centre. I guess that's beside the point though because he will be a Bulldog next year.

It will also take some serious trouble for Klemmer to leave the Dogs and even if he did, it'll take a mammoth effort to get him to Manly considering so many other clubs would be interested and willing to throw coin at him. Players and their managers are not dumb, if they seek a release, they explore ALL options, they don't just pick Manly because we want them to!

Also, the NRL only clear players when clubs try to select them for a match (as Manly did in 2016). The club is not waiting on a clearance for Jamil because they haven't got him in their full-time squad...there was talk of him moving into this squad but it's still up in the air.

 

[Deleted member 26876]

Someone needs to inform the football department at Manly that they're looking at bringing Hopoate over from Canterbury, because they aren't aware of it. The guy signed a contract to play 1 at the Dogs and he would have to play centre at Manly...something I imagine he and his manager are not overly keen on doing, given the money that a fullback can generate in the market, as opposed to centre. I guess that's beside the point though because he will be a Bulldog next year.

It will also take some serious trouble for Klemmer to leave the Dogs and even if he did, it'll take a mammoth effort to get him to Manly considering so many other clubs would be interested and willing to throw coin at him. Players and their managers are not dumb, if they seek a release, they explore ALL options, they don't just pick Manly because we want them to!

Also, the NRL only clear players when clubs try to select them for a match (as Manly did in 2016). The club is not waiting on a clearance for Jamil because they haven't got him in their full-time squad...there was talk of him moving into this squad but it's still up in the air.

Klemmer's ship has sailed, Supreme Leader said that Hoppa was a chance (I think it was SL, sorry if not). So I don't think we can rub it out yet, he does have a contract though, although then again, contracts aren't all that

 

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Geez Bozo. Maybe you need a 10 day cooling off period!

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Governor Arthur Phillip passed through Beacon Hill on his way to Broken Bay in 1789, naming the landmark.

He was heard to remark to Capt Tench and Capt Hunter that he would set aside the substantial sum of 25 pounds for the development of sports grounds at the bottom of that hill next week.

I wish I had thought of that one.

Well played Sir, well played.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

It gets muddier each “ next week” we get to.

I’m expecting next week to be even muddier, and the one after positively filthy.

 

[Snake]

Klemmer's ship has sailed, Supreme Leader said that Hoppa was a chance (I think it was SL, sorry if not). So I don't think we can rub it out yet, he does have a contract though, although then again, contracts aren't all that

Yeah but how come the people in the football department at Manly don't know about it, if it's happening?

 

[Deleted member 26876]

Yeah but how come the people in the football department at Manly don't know about it, if it's happening?

Oh, sorry, didn't know you knew of a member of the football department. Hang on, are you that member? Have I been bamboozled all this time