Captaincy shake-up to solve pride disaster

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Manly is considering making Jake Trbojevic co-captain alongside Daly Cherry-Evans successful a bid to enactment the pride jersey disaster down the nine erstwhile and for all.

Despite the Sea Eagles claiming they are a agreed beforehand again, determination is inactive a monolithic rift betwixt the 7 players who boycotted the pridefulness circular and the remainder of the squad.

The bulk of the 7 are Islander players, who get connected amended with the fashionable Trbojevic than they bash with the seasoned Cherry-Evans.

Elevating Jake to co-captain would appease the 7 and beryllium seen arsenic a bid determination to erstwhile again unify the playing group.

The Sea Eagles didn't triumph a crippled past play aft the infamous pridefulness jersey fiasco successful August, bombing retired with 7 consecutive losses, and volition request to find a mode to get connected again to beryllium a finals unit successful 2023.

Trbojevic is held successful precocious respect passim the Manly country and is the logical replacement skipper erstwhile DCE hangs up his boots.

The caller epoch astatine Manly officially kicked disconnected erstwhile Anthony Seibold began his tenure arsenic caput manager connected Tuesday.

Gun Eel's aboriginal successful limbo

Eels fans are going to person to sweat it retired erstwhile it comes to the aboriginal of superb five-eighth Dylan Brown.

With Brown and chap fractional Mitchell Moses some coming disconnected declaration astatine the extremity of 2023, the Eels are hopeless to fastener up the pair.

But Brown knows his terms volition lone emergence the longer helium waits and is successful nary unreserved to determine his future.

"There are 8 oregon 9 clubs aft Dylan truthful determination is simply a batch to consider," Brown's manager Gavin Orr told Wide World of Sports.

"He volition conscionable beryllium backmost and spot however things spell implicit the adjacent fewer weeks and months."

Moses is besides successful blistery demand, with the Bulldogs and Tigers starring the battalion of clubs aft his signature.

Dolphins lure rising large bopper

The Dolphins person signed a big, young mediate guardant from New Zealand arsenic portion of their five-year plan.

Elijah Rasmussen was calved successful England but moved to Auckland arsenic a youngster, playing for Westlake Boys High School successful caller seasons.

The 17-year-old besides made his people successful rugby union, winning enactment successful the Auckland Blues under-18 improvement squad.

He represented the Maoris astatine under-18 level this twelvemonth earlier deciding to ore connected league, and was picked retired by Dolphins scouts.

He'll play colts and Queensland Cup successful 2023 earlier hopefully moving into the Dolphins' full-time squad arsenic helium develops.

Dogs raid New Zealand

The Bulldogs person invaded New Zealand, with a radical of the club's coaching and improvement unit tutoring 60 of the champion young Kiwis successful Auckland past weekend.

Some 40 teenage boys and 20 girls were enactment done their paces by Bulldogs staffers Barry Ward, Adam Hartigan and Luke Goodwin.

"It was a large play and we person immoderate precise talented kids determination that we person enactment successful a pathways program," Ward said.

"We did a batch of investigating and skills enactment arsenic good arsenic talks connected payment and the kids loved it."

Most were aged 14 to 17 and the program is to fto them decorativeness their acquisition successful New Zealand and past bring immoderate implicit present to Sydney.

"It's a semipermanent task but we are moving for the future."

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