Gus blasts Hasler rumour after 'painful' fiasco

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Phil Gould has deed retired astatine Manly absorption and anyone suggesting Des Hasler should beryllium replaced arsenic manager of the Sea Eagles.

The Brookvale nine mislaid 7 games connected the trot to decorativeness the NRL season, and rumours are present swirling astir the coach's contiguous future.

This week a bizarre communicative emerged that Hasler had his shot section administer a survey to players specifically gauging however galore of them supported him staying successful the role.

The seasoned manager is acceptable to beryllium down with Sea Eagles bosses connected Thursday to sermon his contract. He is tied to the Sea Eagles for astatine slightest 1 much season.

"If thing is adjacent existent that idiosyncratic thinks that shot nine and that squad would beryllium a amended spot without Des Hasler, past I'm an astronaut," Gould said connected Wide World of Sports' Six Tackles with Gus podcast.

"I can't recognize the reasoning with that astatine all.

"With each the clubs that are presently struggling, and struggling for coaches, and each clip idiosyncratic needs a caller manager there's a conflict to spell done the database to spot who's disposable - to deliberation you're going to fto 1 of the game's premier coaches, a Manly fable ... fixed the mode the squad performed past year, and this twelvemonth were inactive successful the moving to marque the 8 without Tom."

The Sea Eagles amazed the NRL successful 2021 erstwhile they made a large tally to finals and finished wrong the ladder's apical four.

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But their 2022 play was cruelled the infinitesimal superstar fullback Tom Trbojevic suffered a superior enarthrosis wounded earlier the halfway people of the campaign, and failed to play different game.

Manly, though, looked to beryllium travelling OK until circular 19, erstwhile interior friction abruptly came to the forefront.

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Seven first-grade players boycotted the club's crippled against the Roosters successful bid to debar wearing a rainbow-adorned jersey which was designed to observe inclusivity successful rugby league.

Since that fiasco the Sea Eagles failed to triumph different game, ending their chances of playing finals.

Through the pridefulness jersey debacle, it was Hasler and skipper Daly Cherry-Evans who fronted up to talk to media, and the manager took a thinly veiled swipe astatine nine absorption for shirking the responsibility.

It was that saga that supposedly led to a disagreement forming betwixt Hasler and those higher-up.

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"It was achy to ticker Des Hasler spell to a property league to effort to appease everybody who whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium effected by the events of that week, including his players and the board," Gould said.

"I don't cognize who made the determination that Des had to beforehand the media connected this.

"It was a precise achy acquisition arsenic helium tried to apologise to perfectly everyone, and tried to offend perfectly nary one, successful what was evidently thing that blindsided him successful mentation for that week.

"All I tin accidental is I don't deliberation Manly are going to beryllium immoderate amended if they fto spell of Des Hasler.

"I can't judge anyone successful their close caput is going to deliberation Manly is going to beryllium a amended squad and a amended nine without Des Hasler coaching that side."

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