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[Mark from Brisbane]

Definitely a list that is unlikely to move us out of the bottom 4. So when we serve up another season like last will there be another cull of players as well as the coaching staff ??
I so hope not otherwise we'll be lost in the wilderness for years.

Mick I'm convinced this is about trying to find some potential good players by giving a few a new opportunity , the strategy can work, BUT, if it doesn't they'll just keep the ones that work and go to market big time with the Snake/ Skivvy money plus say 6 who don't make it on say $200k.

That's going to be nearly 3 million.

We should be able to buy a reasonable centre, a top prop, a good winger and a good edg runner for those dollars , all areas I think we are short in.

If more succeed than we think, there probably still 2 million for a top line prop and say a centre, and we'd certainly get them for those dollars.

I don't like the way this is being done but I can see the plan.

 

[Loobs]

Mick I'm convinced this is about trying to find some potential good players by giving a few a new opportunity , the strategy can work, BUT, if it doesn't they'll just keep the ones that work and go to market big time with the Snake/ Skivvy money plus say 6 who don't make it on say $200k.

That's going to be nearly 3 million.

We should be able to buy a reasonable centre, a top prop, a good winger and a good edg runner for those dollars , all areas I think we are short in.

If more succeed than we think, there probably still 2 million for a top line prop and say a centre, and we'd certainly get them for those dollars.

I don't like the way this is being done but I can see the plan.

Mick/Mark - another Mick here - I agree with Mark.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Mick/Mark - another Mick here - I agree with Mark.

The triple M's!!!!

 

[wombatgc]

The guy that is alw

He was released last year

More hype from our recruitment team who failed to last even one year

Walker latest recruit for new look team

Jon Geddes, Manly Daily
September 14, 2015 4:59pm

THE Sea Eagles have once again gotten under the guard of rugby by signing another outstanding young player from the rival code.

Former St Augustine’s College student John Walker was earmarked for a big career by the Australian Rugby Union and had trained with the Australian Sevens.

He will join St Joseph’s College fullback Tom Wright at Manly as part of the club’s rebuilding campaign. The talented duo will share digs on the northern beaches.

Walker, 18, hails from Scone. He came to St Augustine’s in Year 10 on an ARU scholarship and played representative rugby for NSW.

But just before the Australian Schoolboys competition last year, he broke his ankle.

At the end of last year, he was drafted into the Australian Sevens program and the Waratahs under-20s before hurting his ankle once more.

“I was in the end of my recovery program when I got a call from Scott Fulton asking if I wanted to have a run with the Sea Eagles,” Walker said.


Sea Eagles recruit John Walker.
“It just came out of nowhere.”

Walker, who played league as a youngster, decided to give it another crack despite giving up the chance Sevens offered of travelling the world.

“With the injuries and all the time I had out, I started losing interest in rugby and I just needed a new fire, so I decided to give league a go,” he said.

Walker will start training with the Sea Eagles’ NRL squad under new coach Trent Barrett in early November and is expected to play second row and centre.

Meanwhile, new Sea Eagles hooker Matt Parcell lived up to the hype by scoring an amazing five tries for the Ipswich Jets in their 44-18 win over Brisbane Easts in a Queensland Cup semi-final on the weekend.

In his Manly Daily column on Saturday, Peter Peters wrote that big things were expected from the 21-year-old, who will be involved in a tussle for the No.9 jumper with club stalwart Matt Ballin and Penrith recruit Apisai Koroisau.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...m/news-story/c4dd134940168f81f7bdb4d2bd7157a5

Scott Fulton.....he knows how to pick'em.

 

[The Who]

Mick I'm convinced this is about trying to find some potential good players by giving a few a new opportunity , the strategy can work, BUT, if it doesn't they'll just keep the ones that work and go to market big time with the Snake/ Skivvy money plus say 6 who don't make it on say $200k.

That's going to be nearly 3 million.

We should be able to buy a reasonable centre, a top prop, a good winger and a good edg runner for those dollars , all areas I think we are short in.

If more succeed than we think, there probably still 2 million for a top line prop and say a centre, and we'd certainly get them for those dollars.

I don't like the way this is being done but I can see the plan.

We had good proven players but sacked them, such as Buhrer, Gutherson, Parcell and T-Red. We also had another potential JWH in Liam Knight, and moved him on for for called disciplinary reasons yet retained some others who's off-field record was far worse, but who's surnames carried favour with Fulton.
We wouldn't have needed to recruit in such a haphazard fashion if we'd retained these players - all of whom had revelled in the Manly culture.

 

[BOZO]

We had good proven players but sacked them, such as Buhrer, Gutherson, Parcell and T-Red. We also had another potential JWH in Liam Knight, and moved him on for for called disciplinary reasons yet retained some others who's off-field record was far worse, but who's surnames carried favour with Fulton.
We wouldn't have needed to recruit in such a haphazard fashion if we'd retained these players - all of whom had revelled in the Manly culture.

There is no mention that we have retained the best back in the game in Turbo and his power pack brother . 2017 has not begun as yet and the pessimists have pulled out their crystal ball and have catastrophised all our new signings and our season .
The players that pull on the Manly jumper will have the last say !!!

 

[mickqld]

Consider that origin contains the top 36 players, the there's the Kiwi squad of another top 18. Then a few others from England, Pacific Islands. So let's say of the top 70 players in the NRL we have Taupau and Jake T.
Add to that end DCE, Walker and Tom T.
Normally Manly would have 8 or 9 in rhat class. We are sorely lacking in top quality.

 

[Bearfax]

Consider that origin contains the top 36 players, the there's the Kiwi squad of another top 18. Then a few others from England, Pacific Islands. So let's say of the top 70 players in the NRL we have Taupau and Jake T.
Add to that end DCE, Walker and Tom T.
Normally Manly would have 8 or 9 in rhat class. We are sorely lacking in top quality.

Maybe that will change by years end.

 

[Deleted member 24974]

Des will be back next year, then the rebuild will truly begin.

 

[Mals]

1st grade squad - 29 player profiles up on the MWSE website.

No Brett Stewart
No Steve Matai

 

[tookey]

1st grade squad - 29 player profiles up on the MWSE website.

No Brett Stewart
No Steve Matai

A few people were wrong to say that they would be in our top 25.

They were never going to play in 2017

 

[Smokin Joe]

No Uate either,just an oversight(Uate I mean) and no holden cup yet either.Interesting that T.Wright,Parker and Bainbridge are there even though eligible for 20's.

 

[nightster]

A few people were wrong to say that they would be in our top 25.

They were never going to play in 2017

end of an era ... time to start a new one

 

[Loobs]

1st grade squad - 29 player profiles up on the MWSE website.

No Brett Stewart
No Steve Matai

Pfft other clubs had theirs up sooner rabble rabble rabble

 

[Woodsie]

A few people were wrong to say that they would be in our top 25.

They were never going to play in 2017

Mate, they ARE in our top 25. Even if we pay them out, unless the NRL allows medical retirements they will stay in our top 25.

 

[Woodsie]

Definitely a list that is unlikely to move us out of the bottom 4. So when we serve up another season like last will there be another cull of players as well as the coaching staff ??
I so hope not otherwise we'll be lost in the wilderness for years.

Make up your mind Mick, you firstly say our roster is unlikely to lift us out of the bottom 4 .... then you say you hope we won't cull them ...... what are you drinking up there, that XXXX will send you daft.

 

[pjayz]

Is it just me or does Lewis Brown's head seemed to be photoshopped onto his body? Actually, Jackson Hasting's head has also been photoshopped onto the same body as Lewis Brown! Hahaha only Manly.

 

[Nice Beaver]

A few people were wrong to say that they would be in our top 25.

They were never going to play in 2017

Holy dooley. This again?

They are part of the 25 under the cap as of right now.

They can put 76 profiles up. It does not change the fact Stewart and Matai are part of our top 25 squad for salary cap purposes

Here endith the lesson.

 

[Mals]

Anyone know how many players can be in an NRL team 1st tier cap? Is it just 25?

 

[Fluffy]

Consider that origin contains the top 36 players, the there's the Kiwi squad of another top 18. Then a few others from England, Pacific Islands. So let's say of the top 70 players in the NRL we have Taupau and Jake T.
Add to that end DCE, Walker and Tom T.
Normally Manly would have 8 or 9 in rhat class. We are sorely lacking in top quality.

Pretty much right on the ball there.

In 2011 we had Stewarts X 2, Watmough, Foran, Trex as reps, Kite,matai and Lyon ex rep and DCE and Hoppa as new stars. Today we have Turbos X 2, DCE, Walker, Taupau and Brown as reps, Myles and Uate ex rep just need to unearth 2 or 3 guys who can bring to the top level.

AFB is one I can see pushing hard by next year, Siro or Lane could be surprises and Hastings certainly has skill if he can pull his head in who knows.

Not a huge gap to close