Tangles gone ( effective immediately)

[Eagle thru 'n' thru]

Hope it is not a back, I think the squad is back heavy atm

Turbo
Elliott
Taufua
Suli
Walker
Parker
Garrick
Hoppa
Funa
Smith
Kioa

DCE
Croker
Cust
Elgey
Hodko

Api
Fainu

Taupau
AFB
Toff
Perrett
Paseka
Boyle
Jake
Sirro
Thompson
Waddell
Jetski

That is 29 excluding Tangles. 11 of those covering the back 5 positions then 10 players covering 8 forward positions (prop, backrow, 8 bench forwards)......a few forward injuries and we would be extremely short

Abbas Miski

 

[tookey]

Will Manly officially announce Kelepi's exit

The same time they announce Matt Orford's signing

Does anyone know how Matty O is going after his stroke?

 

[HappilyManly]

The same time they announce Matt Orford's signing

Does anyone know how Matty O is going after his stroke?

Someone reported a few months ago that the Ox is doing really well 🙂

Good too see him at Brookie one day

 

[Disco]

Abbas Miski

Yes????

He recently got upgraded to the development squad I believe which means he can play anytime after June 30, or before with dispensation

No need to upgrade to the 30 atm imo

 

[Disco]

Matt Orford had a stroke??????

 

[HappilyManly]

Matt Orford had a stroke??????

2016 he had a hip operation that resulted in a blood clot putting him in a coma.

Where have you been??

https://www.google.com/amp/s/couple...t/news-story/9bb2780b5c018a0eb4f4e954e0a8d9c9

But he is now fine 🙂

 

[tookey]

It would appear that the club has offloaded players to free up cash, I'm hearing we have cut around $350K (so other than Tangles we have let some others go?) plus we have access to another $93K from NRL (Walker). So we have say $450K. Who's around that is worth $420-$430K - need to keep $20K for payments to players brought up to NRL from outside top 30.

It was rumoured in the offseason that Des tried to get Greg Eastwood here but didn't have enough salary cap to give him a contract

Wonder if Eastwood will come here before 30 June as a backup prop?

 

[Supreme Leader]

It was rumoured in the offseason that Des tried to get Greg Eastwood here but didn't have enough salary cap to give him a contract

Wonder if Eastwood will come here before 30 June as a backup prop?

Watched him on weekend, Reckon Byso is bigger and faster than Eastwood, so that makes him real slow. Please NO!

 

[HappilyManly]

It was rumoured in the offseason that Des tried to get Greg Eastwood here but didn't have enough salary cap to give him a contract

Wonder if Eastwood will come here before 30 June as a backup prop?

Watch the replay of BWSE game from Sunday.

Eastwood played for the Jets with +20kg

It would take a year to get his weight down and build his fitness up 😎

http://rugbyleague-reports.stats.com/nrl-match-report.php?matchId=20191131050

 

[Disco]

Yeah off the bench for the Jets.....ewwww no

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Trent Merrin is currently parked up not playing any footy, half a season of him could be quite handy, especially with Origin coming up

 

[HappilyManly]

Trent Merrin is currently parked up not playing any footy, half a season of him could be quite handy, especially with Origin coming up

Drags are keen to use JDBs Cap allowance to bring him back from ESL

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Drags are keen to use JDBs Cap allowance to bring him back from ESL

Thought they would be, we may be better positioned to produce an offer though if interested

As far as I’m aware he left Leeds about 6 weeks back and is just waiting for something at the moment so could get a cheap half a season

 

[HappilyManly]

Thought they would be, we may be better positioned to produce an offer though if interested

As far as I’m aware he left Leeds about 6 weeks back and is just waiting for something at the moment so could get a cheap half a season

Drags were waiting on the Court and are only now told by the NRL how much they're allowed to spend

I saw 270k mentioned somewhere.
That would cover half a season at least

 

[Manly To Win!]

Thought they would be, we may be better positioned to produce an offer though if interested

As far as I’m aware he left Leeds about 6 weeks back and is just waiting for something at the moment so could get a cheap half a season

He's been playing for Leeds, I play Super League Dream Team and he's been getting good scores lately. I highly doubt they'll let him go. He only came back to Australia because a family member was unwell if I remember correctly.

 

[Peter C]

Trent Merrin is currently parked up not playing any footy, half a season of him could be quite handy, especially with Origin coming up

Trent's been overpaid and underperformed for ages now, let the Dragons do their money on him, not us

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

He's been playing for Leeds, I play Super League Dream Team and he's been getting good scores lately. I highly doubt they'll let him go. He only came back to Australia because a family member was unwell if I remember correctly.

Thanks for that, I just read about 6 weeks back he had an immediate release and was returning to Sydney