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    Bateman... no, no, no, no, no

    I must say Bateman he did play well for the Poms the other day. For Samoa, I thought our new recruit Jaz Tavaga also played very well. Great defence, good passing and always looked to run from dummy half. Could be an astute buy.
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    Fingers crossed. I would be a very happy Eagle if they announced the signing of one Leo Thompson. The rest is all in-house.
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    2025

    Sounds like you are happy with our 24 performance and that's fair enough as we all have different standards. And yes I agree a definite improvement on 23 as we made the 2nd week of the finals. However I am far from happy with our overall performance during the year and particularly towards the...
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    2025

    Unfortunately this plan did not work in 24 so lets hope he creates a different plan in 25. Clearly we have some problems within our forwards and a good part of the problem (unfortunately again) revolves around Jake and Croker. Not in defence but it's very obvious in attack. We struggle here in...
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    A dominant middle forward and a legitimate hooker. Simkin I think would solve the latter but not heard anything on the former. That would give us a premiership winning team.
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    I think the Seibold connection and the coaching personality will make this move a major success. Bateman is an interesting character who I have always thought needs interesting management. I would classify his last two coaches (Sticky and Benji) as blunt hard arses ala their way or the highway...
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    Mestrov outlines future

    I think you will find that the 55% is gross...not net. Most NRL franchises are struggling to cover the balance of operating expenses such as admin, marketing, management, cost of loans, other OH etc. The after-tax NET profits are usually quite negligible and confidential given they are owned by...
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    Mestrov outlines future

    Those financials are real cause for concern. Firstly, (from an NRL perspective) you would surely have to question at some point the future viability of having an NRL franchise on the Northern Beaches. Secondly (from a club perspective) I would be questioning the quality of our management...
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    I also hope you are wrong @BOZO about our coach. I gave him a FAIL in 24 for his performance on some very specific grounds. Hopefully he can turn that around in 25. He needs to look no further than the published NRL team statistics. We came 2nd last on "Dummy Half Runs" and 2nd last on...
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    Manly Tigers rift

    I understand why the Tigers would be peed off. As a sign of good will and in the interests of maintaining good relations, I think we should offer back Josh Alioia to the Tigers. I think that would be fair.
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    Lodge, you Monster

    Agreed on Lodge and good call on Leo Thompson. He would be a perfect fit to our middles. Not sure why Knights would let him go??
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    Onitoni Large

    I object to the word "old"!!!
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    The Anthony Seibold Grievances MEGA THREAD

    It was the clubs fault to continue supporting Manase despite what was clear and overwhelming legal evidence of his guilt. We had no recognised hooker throughout this whole legal episode (2-3 years) and we still have no recognised hooker today. I would classify all that as really poor judgment.
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    The Anthony Seibold Grievances MEGA THREAD

    I get the sentiment Ralphie but it's not about accepting mediocrity. Like any other business out there you live or die by the quality of your decision making. If you look back over the last 11 years there have been were some really poor decisions made by our club and our coaches. There are...
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    The Anthony Seibold Grievances MEGA THREAD

    Love your optimism Maxta. Look I don't think we are that far off for a more serious tilt at the 25 premiership. However there definitely need to be some changes. I think for example if we added an RCG to the pack that would be a significant change for mine. The other obvious changes are all...
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    The Anthony Seibold Grievances MEGA THREAD

    I like Seibs. Unfortunately if I was assessing his performance this year, based on the facts alone it would be a Fail. The out wide defence never improved, the middles were seriously poor at times and always seemed to get dominated, some highly questionable selections particularly around hooker...
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    2025

    Good thread Leonard and very timely. There is no doubt in my mind that our single biggest issue is the lack of aggression and mobility of our middle forwards. That's where we continually loose the ruck. This issue is now compounded by the fact that we have just recently extended the contracts of...
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    The scales of Reuben.

    I think we have more chances of fixing the defence issues out wide than fixing the much bigger forward issues in the middle. Particularly given we have only just extended the contracts of a couple of the big slow middles. Interesting decision from our Recruitment. My strong recommendation to...
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    The scales of Reuben.

    Love your optimism SER8. Most of the defensive wobbles on that right side have to do with DCE. Yes Garrick is somewhat soft with his tackling but bigger issue all to do with lack of defensive structure and confidence in that structure. After 27 rounds of same issue and still no fix, I am not...
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    Post-Game Discussion Chooks V Manly [Finals Week 2, 2024]

    How that was not considered dangerous contact with the head is yet another sad indictment of the refereeing standard and inconsistency. Especially when you see the victim almost knocked out and carted off. Yet the NRL says they are all interested in players welfare and head knocks. They deserve...

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2 Bulldogs 15 11 0 4 92 28
3 Storm 14 10 0 4 196 26
4 Warriors 15 10 0 5 11 26
5 Broncos 16 9 0 7 68 22
6 Panthers 15 7 1 7 3 21
7 Dolphins 16 8 0 8 162 20
8 Roosters 14 7 0 7 16 20
9 Sharks 16 8 0 8 -4 20
10 Sea Eagles 15 7 0 8 40 18
11 Dragons 14 6 0 8 -45 18
12 Cowboys 15 6 1 8 -134 17
13 Knights 16 6 0 10 -67 16
14 Eels 15 5 0 10 -103 16
15 Tigers 15 5 0 10 -84 14
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