gday Ryan, Jake Lingard is in his 1st year at Manly. He came to us from Narooma with 2 other guys I think. He started the year with loads of promise. He is a centre, tall and rangy. He really knows how to hit the line. In playing styles, he is like Justin Hodges, he has this long stride but uses that proppping motion like hodges to beat defence. He scored a cracker of a try on the weekend, has alot of potential, like his size and speed, will play toyota cup next season, too early to say if he will make nrl but I rate him as a kid who definitely could with improvemnet as he gets older.
In that Toyota cup team, there is loads of potential
1. william hopoate: matter of when !!! most talented kid at the club for so young
2. peneha the winger; built like a tank, just came over from NZ, could be anything with top coaching
3.mark page: sunshine coast centre, been described as a mini lyon, extremely quick centre who knows where the try line is, quite small though, very talented
6. kieran foran: heard that Des is a huge fan and sees foran as future 1st grade 5/8, only just 18, kicks, tackles runs, has the whole package, great passing game, much higher rated than his older brother Liam
7. daly cherry evans: qld halfback, brilliant kicking game long and short, attack is sound, not that quick, heard club is concerned about his defence, maybe why we signed aust schoolboy half Trent Hodkinson from parra
10. kenny edwards; plays like choc, got loads better as season went on, much fitter, plays like pritchard
11. darcy lussick: big tall and rangy beaver clone, terrible injuries but could be anything
hargreaves: hit his straps as season went on, big and fast, likes the tough stuff, bit slow in playing the ball, des is a big fan, definitely a 2nd rower
cunningham, sg ball prop, plays rep, very raw, big kid, loads of potential, I heard that he is expected to do big things in couple of years but club wary of looking after himÂ