The way forward

[Mark from Brisbane]

My greatest fear is if these "guns" coming through all fail to fire! Obviously a lot of pressure to put on young shoulders however if they do bloom it'll be a quick rise out of the doldrums.
But if not.....

That’s the risk you’d have to be prepared to take.

But if the superstars won’t come because ,

1) we are unattractive
2) we don’t have the 3rd party dollars to compete

Then what else are our choices ??

 

[Pete W]

To me it all starts at the top. Hard to move the club forward without having a very strong leader someone totally committed to building the club back into a premiership force, someone with excellent footy knowledge and connections within the game to wheel and deal and make shxt happen. Someone who has full and total control to make the changes necessary without fear or favour from whoever owns the joint. Someone who will take a long term approach and rebuild the club from all the angles that you highlight.

Easy job ....... ????

Bring back Arko

 

[Nordburg]

Based on our results and where we seem to be heading then no. He's not terrible, I mean he's at least stayed longer than most of the CEOS we've had and seems ro have the support of the Penn family. but the results are what they are and I agree with your assessment of the future. Our future is kind of beige ..... probably not bottom of the barrel but hovering around the bottom half of the ladder for the foreseeable future.

It's not an easy job or position to recruit but people like Gus Gould, Frank Ponissi, Nick Politis always find a way. No matter what, they just seem to get shxt done and they drag the club with them and you're either on the bus with them or they quickly chuck you off it. Obviously an NRL club is lots of moving parts but a really strong leader with a powerful vision and unrelenting commitment "to make Manly great again" would I think be a decent start.

So you talk about results,yet don’t even mention 1 of the appalling coaches from the last 10 years,that have overseen the clubs demise.Time for the owners or whoever is now making the big decisions,to get someone in that wants to sort out the club,not just the first grade squad with quick fix,band aid solutions

 

[madmax]

Based on our results and where we seem to be heading then no. He's not terrible, I mean he's at least stayed longer than most of the CEOS we've had and seems ro have the support of the Penn family. but the results are what they are and I agree with your assessment of the future. Our future is kind of beige ..... probably not bottom of the barrel but hovering around the bottom half of the ladder for the foreseeable future.

It's not an easy job or position to recruit but people like Gus Gould, Frank Ponissi, Nick Politis always find a way. No matter what, they just seem to get shxt done and they drag the club with them and you're either on the bus with them or they quickly chuck you off it. Obviously an NRL club is lots of moving parts but a really strong leader with a powerful vision and unrelenting commitment "to make Manly great again" would I think be a decent start.

Bear in mind we have more sponsorship than we’ve had in many years!!! Mestrov can only do what the Penn’s allow him to do.

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

You want radical? I'll give you radical:
We merge with Newcastle and become New Manly.
We command the geography north of Sydney Harbour, through the central coast and north past Newcastle to the Queensland border. Imagine the junior talent in this region!
We play half our home matches in Newcastle and half at Brookie.
We add some blue to our jersey to embrace the Newcastle colours and come up with a design similiar to the jerseys we had when Pepsi was a sponsor.
Our logo becomes a 'Knight in Flight...'
Such a plan would improve our on-field results markedly. What is would mean for the fan bases of both clubs probably would be polarising.

That would go down well with The Spud and The Chief.

 

[madmax]

Bite the fu<king bullet & get some youth in the team! Yes we may struggle for a while but how the fu<k else will we know? I’m happy to go thru a difficult 2026 if we give players like Walsh, Large, Hart, Bryan, Navale, Muagututia, Pua’avase, Laiafi a chance!!!!! At least we’ll know what the future may bring & who knows there could be a few surprises! I’d go all out as follows:
Trbo
Saab
Koula
Garrick
Lehi
Walsh
Fogarty
Paseka
Simpkin / Muagatutia
TKO
Olakau’atu
Hart
Navale
Res: Talau, Brbo, Bully, Laiafi
FMD it’s time!!!!!!

 

[Frogz]

nd you

Bite the fu<king bullet & get some youth in the team! Yes we may struggle for a while but how the fu<k else will we know? I’m happy to go thru a difficult 2026 if we give players like Walsh, Large, Hart, Bryan, Navale, Muagututia, Pua’avase, Laiafi a chance!!!!! At least we’ll know what the future may bring & who knows there could be a few surprises! I’d go all out as follows:
Trbo
Saab
Koula
Garrick
Lehi
Walsh
Fogarty
Paseka
Simpkin / Muagatutia
TKO
Olakau’atu
Hart
Navale
Res: Talau, Brbo, Bully, Laiafi
FMD it’s time!!!!!!

Still, you haver Garrick in centres...please no. Drop Saab and have Hoppa and Garrick on wings