Siua Taukeiaho Signs

[Ryan]

Injuries crippled most of Rodneys career

The under rated Rodney at his best was indeed like a Rocket
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Bit like Steven Bell. Not just under rated by a little. Grossly under valued.

 

[BOZO]

Bit like Steven Bell. Not just under rated by a little. Grossly under valued.

I agree but we all have different values and standards
The only standard that defines our legendary clubs Greatness
Is Winning grand finals

 

[Disco]

Honestly mate, I rated Rodney as one of the best backrowers I've ever seen in any era

Wow okay, fair enough.

Personally, I loveed Rodney but wouldn't be in the top 50 backrowers I've seen. Without making a list possibly not even the top 100.

But we all view things differently.

 

[Ryan]

Wow okay, fair enough.

Personally, I loveed Rodney but wouldn't be in the top 50 backrowers I've seen. Withough making a list possibly not even the top 100.

But we all view things differently.

Yup, legend 2011 grand finalist :

 

[Highflier]

The key word from your post is to Suffer my feathered friend @Mark from Brisbane
and every year that we fail to feature in a Manly Grand final
I Suffer
We all have now been now suffering for over a Decade

I call this the Decade of Sufferance
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you get a winner for invoking one of the great TV characters of all time ..... Dr Smith

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Honestly mate, I rated Rodney as one of the best backrowers I've ever seen in any era

Do you remember when he came , from Penrith ??

I do , he was slammed from end to end on Silvertails , too old , too slow , too injured.

Ended up being a fabulous acquisition.

 

[LeonardCohen]

Do you remember when he came , from Penrith ??

I do , he was slammed from end to end on Silvertails , too old , too slow , too injured.

Ended up being a fabulous acquisition.

Too old? He was 26 when he arrived at Manly and had only played 70 odd FG games.

 

[KNUCKLES]

Do you remember when he came , from Penrith ??

I do , he was slammed from end to end on Silvertails , too old , too slow , too injured.

Ended up being a fabulous acquisition.

And may history repeat itself

 

[Jay Eagle]

Bring on May and Bateman just to zip the lips on a few posters here..haha

 

[johnperi01]

I read that Taukeiaho has been a mentor in the past to May, so if he can get him to Manly will make his signing worthwhile. Otherwise he is another in the long line of over the hill signings that will not take us to the next level.

 

[Jay Eagle]

I read that Taukeiaho has been a mentor in the past to May, so if he can get him to Manly will make his signing worthwhile. Otherwise he is another in the long line of over the hill signings that will not take us to the next level.

We have a pretty strong Tongan international influence
Hamouli
Tolu
Lehi
Taniela
And now Taukeiaho
So adding May could be on the cards
I think he's exactly what the team needs to take another big step forward

If we get both Bateman and May we are top 4

Bateman is a competitor much like Brown and he will lift at Manly

 

[Scorpio]

Do you remember when he came , from Penrith ??

I do , he was slammed from end to end on Silvertails , too old , too slow , too injured.

Ended up being a fabulous acquisition.

It's the same thing with the current Penrith squad who already have the player nucleus, mindset and knowledge of what it takes to win Grand Finals... So they can get fringe or average first grade players to walk into their squad and become premiership winners. Look at Alamoti, Garner, Momirovski, Sorensen, and others.

The difference with us is that despite all of our representative stars that we have, we're still looking for a player to "unlock" the rest of the squad and make us premiership contenders. I would suggest that this mentality is a bit wishful given the amount of salary cap space we have (or don't have) to work with.

 

[Spartan Eagle]

hopefully he puts his best foot forward.

 

[Captain Moondog]

A Hail Mary signing but I thought Joe Gulavao was past it when we signed him so WTF would I know....Joe's probably past it now......

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

It's the same thing with the current Penrith squad who already have the player nucleus, mindset and knowledge of what it takes to win Grand Finals... So they can get fringe or average first grade players to walk into their squad and become premiership winners. Look at Alamoti, Garner, Momirovski, Sorensen, and others.

The difference with us is that despite all of our representative stars that we have, we're still looking for a player to "unlock" the rest of the squad and make us premiership contenders. I would suggest that this mentality is a bit wishful given the amount of salary cap space we have (or don't have) to work with.

And that’s the issue we really don’t know how much ( or how little ) we have.

The fact that we aren’t buying big name players suggests the latter.

 

[Dion Johnson]

The difference with us is that despite all of our representative stars that we have, we're still looking for a player to "unlock" the rest of the squad and make us premiership contenders. I would suggest that this mentality is a bit wishful given the amount of salary cap space we have (or don't have) to work with.

This is on point for me, the representative players we have that take a larger percentage of the cap have not succeeded in getting the team into contention for a premiership.

The successful clubs shop and move players on that underperform or that have depth in certain positions Terrell May is an example of having depth.

Looking at the current squad the forwards lack quality and depth, there have been underperforming senior / representative players in the pack that need a tap on the shoulder.

To make room in the cap a player on decent remuneration needs to be shopped, otherwise it will be very similar results to 2024 if the club doesn’t sign a decent forward or two.

 

[Captain Moondog]

I'll ignore all this negativity.....

 

[Rocky]

Let's put this in context - this is a signing in the 25th -30th player bucket of the roster.

Never going to move "the needle" but to give a guy 100k who is a premiership winner and hungry - then for me it's incrementally a step in the right direction.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

We have a pretty strong Tongan international influence
Hamouli
Tolu
Lehi
Taniela
And now Taukeiaho
So adding May could be on the cards

May is Samoan, and toured with the Samoan team in the UK, but we certainly are supplying a lot of players to the Tongan team, Throw in former players like AFB and Suli and it's a very big influence.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

I would rather gamble on a fit and virile Rookie with potential

Leaving aside your obsession with virility (not sure how you think females manage to pay rugby league??) ... Manly does sign plenty of young forwards with potential.

The likes of Bullemor, Kelma Tuilagi, Ben Condon, Aitasi James, Burbo, Schuster, Pua'avase, all signed by Manly when aged 21 or 22 or even younger. But clearly not every young (virile, lol) player with potential makes the grade (and some who do, take longer to get there.)

Also it's good to have premiership winning experience in your squad. I'm sure that was a factor in why Des signed Josh Perry, Shane Rodney and Joe Gulavao back in the day.