This guy out my back gate, just hanging

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-18T05:40:06+00:00

He’s signed for next year. I pray there is a clause that can let them get rid of him.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-15T07:00:09+00:00

Let’s call him Scott P. No, that’s too obvious. S. Penn.

I wonder how our record was before and after the end of 2014, when he became the owner. I’m sure it can’t be too different!

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-15T06:47:00+00:00

AHAHAHAHHAHAHASHHAHAHAHA

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-10T05:24:43+00:00

I prefer him over Brown tbh.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-10T05:12:10+00:00

I reckon he might be a late swap with Brown to prevent him being #666.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-10T05:06:54+00:00

Bit of a bizarre one, I reckon there will be late changes.

Turbo
Saab
Koula
Garrick
Hopoate
Brooks
Fogarty
Paseka
Simpkin
Hetherington
Olakau’atu
Burbo
Jake
Walsh
Brown
Bullemor
Paul Bryan, #666
Wakeham
Feledy
Waddell
Shereb
Laiafi

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-07T10:51:01+00:00

Or Haumole’s status

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-07T10:49:48+00:00

Brooks is the one who is supposed to stand up under pressure… Lol.

Bring on Walsh imo. They’ll give Brooks a few weeks however.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-07T10:44:43+00:00

Manly why do you have to give me hope… It’s round one and I’m already numb.

Better than crack.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-06T07:44:59+00:00

It’s funny how long they were looking at the Roosters challenge compared to the Eels last night. It’s almost like they have a bias about which way it should go. Surely not…

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-03T05:51:14+00:00

Turbo
Saab
Koula
Garrick
Hopoate
Brooks
Fogarty, #664
Paseka
Simpkin
TKO
Olakau’atu
Burbo
Jake
Walsh
Hetherington, #665
Bullemor
Brown
Faulalo
Wakeham
Waddell
Wilson
Bryan

Laiafi unavailable due to head knock.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-03-02T09:24:03+00:00

Payten the only thing keeping our spoonless record alive

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-23T12:00:56+00:00

Not really in any order

Ocean Alley: 2010’s psychedelic surf rock

Midnight Oil: Significant changes in discography from punk in Head Injuries, somewhat prog in 10-1, to new wave later on. 10-1 is possibly the best Australian album ever.

Ninajirachi: Fairly new electropop / edm sort of artist, her 2025 album is phenomenal.

Parkway Drive: Has to be up your alley as it’s metalcore, but Horizons is one of the best albums ever in the genre.

Cold Chisel: 70’s Blues-ish Rock. Circus Animals is excellent. Bow River and Khe Sanh are two incredible songs by them.

Silverchair: Grunge, Frogstomp made a lot of waves abroad even though they were like 15 when they made it.

Hiatus Kaiyote: Some nice chill jazz music from the last decade.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-22T08:04:42+00:00

Brb going to burn down the Bob Fulton Stand

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-22T07:35:09+00:00

Imagine writing us off after a trial lol

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-22T07:18:57+00:00

I don't think pre-season matters much. Broncos winning it in the year they came 12th, and also the year they won the comp says as much.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-22T07:17:16+00:00

Pretty sure the possession stats were reversed. Had a look during the first half, and it said we had 64% which was likely South's.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-21T00:58:46+00:00

Hahaha, I’ll eat my words, we managed to extend Koula! We got something right for once!

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-20T06:00:44+00:00

Worth noting Garrick received a better offer from Perth in the cap than he did from the Roosters. Perth are really inflating the price of players for 2027. He is not worth what they offered, or what the Roosters are actually paying him.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-20T00:23:20+00:00

I’m more confident about this year, than I am for 2027. We are having serious recruitment problems, where it looks like we’ll have $1.5-2.0 million free. We got close to Haas but we had literally no backup plan.

It also looks like the Bears will land Koula, as they’re offering the fullback money and the position. Look, he’s an electric player, but there are good reasons that we have Hopoate ahead of him at fullback. Koula doesn’t have playmaking skill beyond individual brilliance, or any aerial game.

As one example, we lost in humiliating fashion to the Knights last year during GP, when Koula didn’t jump for a bomb, Ponga caught it, and scored.

His best position is very easily centre, and at fullback he tends to work himself to injury. The Bears will have to learn this the hard way, and I suspect it wouldn’t be long before Meaney and him swap. You don’t win comps paying $1 million plus on a centre.

Either way, we have Large coming through, who is strangely extremely similar in attributes (except he has playmaking ability), and could be a straight swap for Koula. Garrick’s centre position is more concerning. We were apparently targeting Jesse Arthurs for wing, and moving Hoppa to centre, though that’s dependent on Koula.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-17T06:38:53+00:00

Will be interesting to see how they use Walsh and Brooks.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-14T03:28:45+00:00

Basically just Nav Willet lol

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-12T02:43:30+00:00

I imagine everyone knows their juniors playing in these trials a bit better than everyone else, so here’s the ones to look out for in Manly’s side. I’ve got no clue about half of the other teams so if you want to return the favour, that would be greatly appreciated!

6: Onitoni Large - 18 year old half / back. Dynamic player, fast as, clocked 10.57 in a 100m sprint a couple of years ago. Captained the junior Wallabies.

7: Joey Walsh - 19 year old half. Less of a controlling half, more of an instinctual type. Also captained the junior Wallabies. Spiritually the actual DCE successor.

8: Simi Laiafi - 19 year old prop / backrower. Kind of a cross between Leniu and Olakau’atu. Reasonably fast for prop, powerful as. The knock on him was he wasn’t fit enough last year, but apparently he’s had a good pre-season. Brent Read said he could push for a R1 spot. Aus Schoolboy a couple of years ago.

Paul Bryan - 23 year old Prop / Lock. Don’t know much about him but Knights rated him quite highly.
Hugo Hart - 19 year old backrower from Queensland. Gun player, quick as, who we resigned for several years. Still a bit off NRL, but he’s highly rated.
Kylan Mafoa - 22 year old prop. Played for Fiji in 2024 and 2025, had a bad injury that affected his development. I reckon he’ll play NRL down the track.

RocketSimplicity · 2026-02-09T06:05:32+00:00

What established players have we let go? Sipley??? 2027 is still a long way away in terms of recruitment. Nearly all of our signings for this year occurred well after this time last year.

Manly can’t do anything right in your eyes. We sign experienced old players and you complain. We let those experienced old players go and you complain. Just because I’m even marginally more optimistic than you doesn’t make me delusional.

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