Well that's why they invented fishing and cricket and sex. Find something from that list of slightly less important things to ease your mind grasshopper.
The offseason does funny things to people.
Sure these names might not be 'Manly' right now and you can over analyse until you tap a hole in your iPhone, but Jamie Lyon was once a bloke who liked to chase pigs more than play for Brian Smith, Matt Orford was the halfback for the Storm, Josh Perry - some plodder that Joey made look good, sovereign citizen Brent Kite? Well before jobbing Michael Crocker and winning a CC Medal he was a big lump for the dragons who we weren't sure was a centre, a second rower, a wannabe frontrower or a myth.
What I am ever so clumsily trying to convey is that success imparts a rose coloured hue, and those we now consider the fabric and the pillars of the success that (in parallel with silvertail's genesis and existence) may be a little bit chicken and egg.
That's not taking away the points made that we are hiring our second only ever coach from without. That's something to lament and be proud of but to not look forward and change with the times would be self sabotage.
But with the long double tenures of Des and Bozo before him, and the laconic nature of the Stewart's and Lyon, leadership group (there's only really Balin and Monna's who might come back) Manly based coaches haven't had the chance to come through every two or three years.
