2026 recruitment & retention

[MW66]

Who is making the decision? Siebold? Recruitment Manager? Agent? Garrick?

 

[Leighbra]

Who is making the decision? Siebold? Recruitment Manager? Agent? Garrick?

Garrick probably made this call know he didn't want to play under Seibold anymore.

But from a bigger picture surely Seibold is driving the recruiting he would be telling the recruitment managers the areas he thinks needs improving, and he would be meeting the players and talking to them above his vision hence why we haven't signed anyone good under him because he is a s**t coach, or his vision is terrible

 

[ManlyTragic]

Who is making the decision? Siebold? Recruitment Manager? Agent? Garrick?

… I don’t think anyone is making a decision. If they made the decision to drop DCE as captain and give the role to Jake that would have provided leadership and direction. It would have sent out a message you may be contracted to manly but if you don’t want to put the effort in you are free to leave.

Again, it seems that everyone doesn’t want to upset DCE… that’s not leadership.

Just sayin’

 

[Dion Johnson]

Siosiua Taukeiaho WWOS reporting that a new deal is almost done with an extension at the club, don’t get me wrong I think he has done enough to earn another year, though there is a bit to be learned from extending Nathan Brown for two years.

 

[Hertera]

Dads army

 

[Nordburg]

Siosiua Taukeiaho WWOS reporting that a new deal is almost done with an extension at the club, don’t get me wrong I think he has done enough to earn another year, though there is a bit to be learned from extending Nathan Brown for two years.

Yep,players like him and Brown at their age and body condition,should only ever be one year at a time signings and if they’re not happy with that or get a better offer elsewhere,so be it.Brown is the perfect example.Yes,he did end up with injuries but he wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire prior to that and his cult status masked his form

 

[Cochrane]

Corey Waddell is only here because he is now part of the Trbojevic family and has a contract to 2027

Not this old chestnut again 😆

 

[madmax]

Yep,players like him and Brown at their age and body condition,should only ever be one year at a time signings and if they’re not happy with that or get a better offer elsewhere,so be it.Brown is the perfect example.Yes,he did end up with injuries but he wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire prior to that and his cult status masked his form

Would you add Jrbo to that list? TKO has been one of our better forwards. Jrbo hasn’t?

 

[Nordburg]

Would you add Jrbo to that list? TKO has been one of our better forwards. Jrbo hasn’t?

Yes,definitely.But his current contract is at a different stage to those other two and all reports are that his next contract offer will only be a 1 year extension

 

[Cliffycomeback]

Siosiua Taukeiaho WWOS reporting that a new deal is almost done with an extension at the club, don’t get me wrong I think he has done enough to earn another year, though there is a bit to be learned from extending Nathan Brown for two years.

He is a much better extension for us than Brown was. In this instance recruitment has got it right.

 

[Kalvin]

Would you add Jrbo to that list? TKO has been one of our better forwards. Jrbo hasn’t?

I agree TKO has been one of our most consistent forwards this year but to be fair the bar has been set pretty low in 2025 by the others

 

[Dion Johnson]

He is a much better extension for us than Brown was. In this instance recruitment has got it right.

No disagreement on form for me, the lessons learned from Browns two year extension are more about the injuries and the age of the player as @Nordburg highlighted, TKO does deserve an extension but for me a one year extension.

 

[Cliffycomeback]

No disagreement on form for me, the lessons learned from Browns two year extension are more about the injuries and the age of the player as @Nordburg highlighted, TKO does deserve an extension but for me a one year extension.

Oh okay. So it's a two year extension.

 

[Dion Johnson]

Oh okay. So it's a two year extension.

Could be in the article it said it would be at least another year.

 

[tookey]

Dads army

Wait until Klemmer gets here

 

[Heckenberg]

No disagreement on form for me, the lessons learned from Browns two year extension are more about the injuries and the age of the player as @Nordburg highlighted, TKO does deserve an extension but for me a one year extension.

To be honest we should be able to manage his minutes with a 30 minute bench stint if we have some luck with injuries. He shouldn’t be our starting prop but he’s performed admirably considering.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Wait until Klemmer gets here

Manly signing ageing middles who used to be good goes back to 2015, when we got Willie Mason. Since then there's been Myles, Mateo, Woods, Brown, TKO
It's become quite a tradition

 

[skull61]

Yep,players like him and Brown at their age and body condition,should only ever be one year at a time signings and if they’re not happy with that or get a better offer elsewhere,so be it.Brown is the perfect example.Yes,he did end up with injuries but he wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire prior to that and his cult status masked his form

Brown was useless in the battering ram role he was given by the coach. He has in my opinion an underrated passing game close to the ruck seen him put guys thru gaps with deft passes. Should have been players lock for 20 minutes a game

 

[Waz13]

The fact that the only 2 players that aren’t flashy and consistently give 100% performances along with having extremely good defence in Garrick and Talau aren’t re-signed is a worry especially when we are signing cast offs from canterbury in their position. It is criminal that we aren’t signing them. Yet we offer guys like Saab long extensions. Don’t get me started on the forward pack. Sione Fainu should have been offered big money before he left for tigers, and we should have leaned on the guilt trip that we stood by his brother because nobody else did. Our recruitment is a joke.

You lost me at Garrick and extremely good defence. The rest I agree with.

 

[Waz13]

Spot on

We should have used Garrick as trade bait for a decent middle. He’d have reasonable value goal kicking outside back that’s versatile. Can even play fb.