The Daly Cherrygraph

[SeaEagle21]

I believe nothing from the mouths of journos , they are there to create “ clicks “.

I care nought about what the club supposedly “ did do “ or supposedly “ didn’t do”.

What I know is this.

Our longest term player , and club captain, knowingly went on TV and basically trashed the club without any thought for the club or the fans.

In my opinion , unforgivable!!

Regardless ( absolutely regardless ) of what happened behind closed doors , we the fans , from a 15 year veteran ( and club captain ) deserved a dignified announcement.

We didn’t get it , so **** him!!

I’ll cheer the team for the rest of the year but I’m cheering the players who respect the club , not some twat who is only there there for the $$$$

Well said mate!!!

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

As someone else pointed out, Humphries did not debut in the knights game until after he had already signed with vermin… Manly were talking with Fogarty by November…

There is a good chance Humphries was simply not rated…

That would be the super coach seibolds call.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

As someone else pointed out, Humphries did not debut in the knights game until after he had already signed with vermin… Manly were talking with Fogarty by November…

There is a good chance Humphries was simply not rated…

There’s so much that may , might , might not , possibly , maybe , maybe not happened in the last 6 months.

I doubt we’ll ever know.

I’m past it now , I’m just unhappy at the departure news and how it’s been delivered , and it’s clear he doesn’t give a **** about the fans.

So that’s it from me , wouldn’t boo him, doesn’t mean I have to like him

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

As I say above I care nought about the “ he said , they didn’t , he did etc etc”

But we the fans , deserved a more dignified announcement from our 15 year veteran / club captain.

No need to butt heads on this one , you can disagree , that’s fine , I’ve been arguing with Bozo for days, he has his view and we’ll all believe what we want to believe.

Im past this.

I just don’t want to hate DCE, but I now do !!!

Did you hate Bozo when he went to the roosters? Or vautin when he left?

Clubs make decisions. Players are expendable.

Sorry you might have been too young for the bozo question. Only guessing.

 

[47MVEagle]

Yeah definitely get a vibe from that interview that Jake’s not too impressed with how DCE’s gone about it.

Saying “if that’s how he wants to go about it then that’s on him” is a long way from “it’s his right to do what’s best for him & his family” etc.

 

[Dion Johnson]

As someone else pointed out, Humphries did not debut in the knights game until after he had already signed with vermin… Manly were talking with Fogarty by November…

There is a good chance Humphries was simply not rated…

Looking at the timeline and what I have come across to read, Humphreys signed with the Vermin 3 weeks before Manly played them in Round 16 and it was a huge surprise to most of us why he wasn’t selected for that game and Lawton played seven.

As it turns out he had signed with the Vermin and that appears now to be why he wasn’t selected for that game, though out of the teams poor form and they needed direction he was selected for the Knights game.

My view Humphreys would have stayed on if there was any wind that DCE wanted out mid last season.

 

[XV-1]

As someone else pointed out, Humphries did not debut in the knights game until after he had already signed with vermin… Manly were talking with Fogarty by November…

There is a good chance Humphries was simply not rated…

Or not coached

For the life of me I don't know why he didn't debut against the Rabbits - Spoony put Talau at 5/8th from memory - WTF.

 

[frank stokes]

There’s so much that may , might , might not , possibly , maybe , maybe not happened in the last 6 months.

I doubt we’ll ever know.

I’m past it now , I’m just unhappy at the departure news and how it’s been delivered , and it’s clear he doesn’t give a **** about the fans.

So that’s it from me , wouldn’t boo him, doesn’t mean I have to like him

The ONLY good thing about this situation MfB is that it has happened in R3… imagine if this had dropped a couple of weeks out from finals?

Would have absolutely derailed any run for the title.. at least the team has an opportunity to deal with this and hopefully put together a decent run at it…

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Did you hate Bozo when he went to the roosters? Or vautin when he left?

Clubs make decisions. Players are expendable.

Sorry you might have been too young for the bozo question. Only guessing.

I’m 70 this year

Of course I remember both.

Bozo went for the money , said so at the time , I was sad but that’s life.

Vautin wasn’t resigned due to his age , I was sad about that too , but that’s life.

I’m very sad that DCE isn’t finishing at Manly but that’s life too.

But we , regardless of the reasoning , deserved a more appropriate and dignified announcement.

Had that happened you wouldn’t have 45,000 posts to read to catch up.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Does anyone watch this and think Jake is NOT pissed with Chez?

Player Media: Jake Trbojevic

Jake Trbojevic talks ahead of round 4 clash against the Eels

www.seaeagles.com.au

Nah I didn't get that, he supports DCE making whatever choice is best for he and his fam.
Of course, I'm not a good judge of character (could explain why i still converse with everyone here!) 😱

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

It often confuses me why we as fans think that players shouldn't chase the money. Being a rugby league player is a Job. Sure it's also a passion but passion doesn't pay the mortgage and school fees.

It's not like DCE is on NFL money where 100 million or more is being talked about. He's made a million season for a number of years which is great money but when 2 bed units can cost 3 or 4 million is it really that great?

Manly could and should have offered a decent deal last year and this never would have happened.

They didn't and now the circus begins.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Manly could and should have offered a decent deal last year and this never would have happened.

Or maybe Manly (correctly?) judged that they'd squeezed everything out of that lemon and it was the right time to move on?

 

[frank stokes]

Or not coached

For the life of me I don't know why he didn't debut against the Rabbits - Spoony put Talau at 5/8th from memory - WTF.

There were at least a couple of times I thought he would debut and he didn’t…

 

[XV-1]

There were at least a couple of times I thought he would debut and he didn’t…

And we wonder why he left.

Why did DCE request a release after one year of Seibold coaching?

 

[fLIP]

Far out you can tell Jakes devastated in that press conference. He does his best to hide it but you can see a bloke who knows his premiership window just got a lot smaller cause his mate chose money.

 

[HoldenV8]

Without reading the 43500 posts made since Monday.....

Yep.

 

[HoldenV8]

As someone else pointed out, Humphries did not debut in the knights game until after he had already signed with vermin… Manly were talking with Fogarty by November…

There is a good chance Humphries was simply not rated…

If the club rated Humphreys as a halfback, they wouldn't have been trying to turn him into a hooker / dummy half. Especially, regardless of anything that's going on now, knowing DCE's age and that he wouldn't be forever.

 

[The Right Edge]

Maybe Manly chose to upgrade Lehi Hopoate rather than offer DCE $1mil per season. I can imagine the outcry if by giving a 36 yearold such a large component of our salary cap and then we were outbid for Lehi. This thread is also 559 pages and what percentage of that do you all think is positive towards DCE? Some on here are now complaining about something they have wished for.

Chapter 2 will come next November if we lose one or more of the Trbojevic's because we look to reduce the percentage of salary cap consumed by the "family" who according to some one ageing, one always injured and one only there due to the name have our cap unbalanced, another thing on the wishlist of many on this forum.

My personal view is I would love for all of them to be able to fit in and stay together but reality means that the dollar can only stretch so far and choices need to be made. It has been said that Manly is on the cusp of a premiership window, maybe the salary cap freed by losing DCE is the key we need to unlock the window and enabkle us to fly through.

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

To get a better understanding it sometimes helps to flip things around so...

Just imagine the roles were reversed on Monday night. After being booked in for two weeks the Manly CEO went on live TV to announce that Manly was definitely not re-signing DCE....and hadn't told him?

There would be outrage across the NRL.

But DCE would have someone in his corner to go in fighting for him...

The above suggests to me it should have been handled differently.

 

[HoldenV8]

If you were to be honest that was just a Manly Silvertails thing. At least 3/4 of the coaches in the NRL would have taken DCE no questions asked. Would the rubbish years you speak of be the Trent Barrett years by any chance?
He won a premiership. Won a Clive Churchill in a GF we were robbed in. Played in a side that was pretty ordinary at times. Captained QLD and led them to series wins.
I'd say we were lucky to have him but perhaps that's just me.

Sorry to go off topic for a moment, but I honestly think we robbed ourselves in that 2013 GF.

We led 18-8 with 25 to go, then our defence just fell apart. Regardless of the forward pass at the end of it, we literally let James Maloney stride 30 metres downfield without a hand being laid on him. And then, lets face facts ... both Snake and Wolfman ball watched while Michael Jennings scored. Both had ample time to either grab the ball themselves or bat it over the dead ball line, and both just ball watched.

Yeah, I agree Shame Hayne was poor that night. But in those last 20-25 minutes ... so were we unfortunately.