Sam Burgess chasing Manly

[Disco]

Haha Dessie stuffed that one

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/0baf6cfe403b22c5c69ea08728960e3f

 

[Chip and Chase]

Oh Dessie.......

Would have been a good get in hindsight, but them's the breaks - the rumour was floating around here at the time

https://silvertails.net/threads/news-sea-eagles-chasing-england-prop-burgess.14577/

 

[HappilyManly]

Slow news day for a decade old story to be rehashed 😕

 

[MissKate]

He would have spent a lot of time sitting out suspended if he had joined Manly, cos he sure as hell wouldn’t have got away with all the rubbish he has in his game that currently gets swept under the red & green rug

 

[The '47ers]

Was listening to this on the Matty Johns podcast on the way to work tonight, I nearly drove off the road! Would have been a great pick up but alas that's the way it goes. Every club has a similar story. Dogs and JT, Cows and Ponga, Eels and whoever was luck enough to dodge that bullet etc etc

 

[Shoe1]

It was common knowledge at the time. Now “revealed” lol.

That year we had a premiership winning pack and another premiership to win. Plus a tough cap with the Stewarts, choc, Matai and Jamie needing upgrades. The Australian prop kite and two young halves coming through. We couldn’t afford to keep Maria Hargreaves.

At that period manly could only afford to add Chris Bailey and great value players like gulavao, so a young gun international forward like burgess wasn’t really an option.

 

[Eagle thru 'n' thru]

We had the 4th best Burgess brother in Luke...ah hum. I'm logging off now.

 

[castle eagle]

i think the transfer fee was a sticking point in getting him straight away but russ had no problems sorting that out

 

[Scorpio]

Slow news day.

Surely we would have liked to sign Burgess and keep JWH in an ideal world. But we didn't and we won our 8th premiership without them.

Surely that vindicates those decisions.

 

[MadMarcus]

Was listening to this on the Matty Johns podcast on the way to work tonight, I nearly drove off the road! Would have been a great pick up but alas that's the way it goes. Every club has a similar story. Dogs and JT, Cows and Ponga, Eels and whoever was luck enough to dodge that bullet etc etc

Eels and Jamie Lyon...

 

[Rynostradamus]

Haha Dessie stuffed that one

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/0baf6cfe403b22c5c69ea08728960e3f

0 squirrels gripped

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

I think the main point was that Manly wasnt chasing him.
On the podcast Burgess says with honesty that he loved Beaver ( and before you all go nuts he ment bever menzies) and that he talked him into going to manly. It was Burgess who kept ringing Des pleading for a go. He even said he'd play for free.
Would have been a handy pickup.

 

[Cliffymagic]

Its not too late for Sam to live his dream.he can come and play free for us now!!!.

 

[The Who]

Oh dear. If only Twenty had been in charge then . . . .