Trbojevic injury twist as Manly set sights on RTS

The Manly Sea Eagles are considering a stunning play for Roger Tuivasa-Sheck arsenic they ponder beingness without superstar fullback Tom Trbojevic for the remainder of the season.

Speaking to reporters connected Friday, Manly manager Anthony Seibold each but confirmed Trbojevic would beryllium ruled retired for the play and sent for surgery, revealing that if that was the lawsuit the nine would entertain the prospect of replacing him.

Under a precocious brought successful NRL rule, players who are injured successful typical games and rubbed retired for the play tin beryllium replaced by their nine by a similar for similar player, adjacent if their squad is afloat and they person nary country successful their wage cap.

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The Sea Eagles would request to thin connected those guidelines to beryllium capable to motion Tuivasa-Sheck but the 2018 Dally M Medallist would look to perfectly acceptable the criteria.

Having already signed to instrumentality to the NRL with the Warriors adjacent season, the code-hopping prima could get a caput commencement connected his comeback if helium tin beryllium convinced to forego a stint successful New Zealand nine rugby. The 30-year-old has fallen disconnected the radar of the All Blacks and has fixed up connected his imagination of representing his state astatine the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Trbojevic was gathering with a specializer connected Friday greeting and is expected to beryllium booked successful for country to person his pec re-attached aft tearing it successful the opening minutes of State of Origin II. The betterment clip for that country is 12-16 weeks, truthful if that's the enactment taken helium volition beryllium nary anticipation of a instrumentality successful 2023.

While Seibold wasn't keen to play hypotheticals earlier Trbojevic was officially ruled retired for the season, helium agreed that Tuivasa-Sheck was 1 of the fewer players disposable who was apt to acceptable the measure if the Sea Eagles were capable to propulsion the trigger connected a replacement.

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"Certainly there's a fig of names we could look astatine and I'm definite helium would beryllium 1 of them," helium said.

Seibold added that those discussions would apt travel into adjacent week, with Manly owed to alert to Melbourne for a Saturday nighttime clash with the Storm.

Even earlier Trbojevic was injured, the Sea Eagles had named promising youngster Kaeo Weekes successful the No.1 jersey for the Storm clash, with Seibold confirming Weekes and Reuben Garrick were some options helium would see astatine fullback portion Trbojevic was sidelined.

Garrick has been named to play centre against the Storm, but with Brad Parker owed to instrumentality from an elbow wounded for adjacent Sunday's clash with the Roosters, the enactment to determination the reliable Garrick to fullback could go tempting.

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