Kaeo Weekes

[Nike]

Did we lose Weekes to retain Koula, Schuster or any of those other guys? I mean there's plenty examples of it happening even in recent memory the first that comes to mind is Gutherson for Trbojevic.

With the benefit of hindsight do you think Gutherson being available and developing into a leader would've been better for the club than what we got with Tommy? No knock on Tommy either, I'm referring to general availability.

I hope every Manly player, especially juniors, who leave Manly for other NRL opportunities succeed and I don't think we've flicked too many who "weren't good enough" that went on to achieve heaps elsewhere. I'm sure it's happened, I just don't think we lose many players we develop or want unless there's a greater need at the time it happens - especially these days.

Hindsight is 20/20, or something like that...

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

All that aside, that was a great try

That it was. And it makes me happy seeing him do well. He didn't really have a path to full-time NRL with us, so it was good of the club to give him an early release, and he's really found a home at Canberra. Good on him.

As for his speed, I saw an article this week that had him clocked as the fastest player in the NRL so far this season. It then went through the fastest player at each position. Haumole had the top speed for a second rower.