Manly gun cruelled by injury on cusp of season

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Gun Manly five-eighth Josh Schuster has been ruled retired of the Sea Eagles' season-opening NRL clash with the Bulldogs, dealing the nine a stroke aboriginal successful the reign of caller manager Anthony Seibold.

Manly confirmed successful a connection connected Tuesday nighttime that Schuster wouldn't play successful circular 1 owed to a calf wounded suffered successful the Sea Eagles' pre-season situation triumph implicit the Roosters connected Friday night.

Schuster is aiming to play his archetypal crippled of the play against the Eels successful circular three, with the Sea Eagles acceptable for a second-round bye.

The unavailability of the big-framed playmaker means the No.6 jumper volition beryllium worn by caller enlistee Cooper Johns oregon 21-year-old Kaeo Weekes.

Johns joined the Sea Eagles during the off-season aft starting his vocation astatine the Storm, wherever helium lone played 11 NRL games crossed 3 seasons. The lad of erstwhile Knights and Sharks prima Matthew Johns had to bide his clip astatine Melbourne down superb halves Cameron Munster and Jahrome Hughes.

Weekes played 3 NRL games for Manly successful 2022 and shone successful the Sea Eagles' 28-16 triumph implicit the Roosters connected Friday, mounting up 3 tries, making a linebreak and racking up 130 metres successful an awesome showing astatine fullback.

Premiership-winning five-eighth Kieran Foran was squeezed retired of Manly due to the fact that of Schuster's tendency to articulation Daly Cherry-Evans successful the halves.

Foran is connected a two-year woody astatine the Titansollowing 2 stints with the Sea Eagles, arsenic good arsenic clip astatine the Eels, Warriors and Bulldogs.

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