Feuding superstars expose 'major problem'

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Manly's play ended successful shambolic fashion, and present we person stories wherever Tom Trbojevic is forced to contradict reports of a bust-up with Daly Cherry-Evans.

If those reports are true, truthful what? The astir concerning happening is that those sorts of stories should ne'er beryllium made public. Do you cognize however galore arguments determination are betwixt blokes successful rugby league teams? It happens constantly. It's portion and parcel of the game.

I've got small uncertainty they had an argument. Nor bash I care. You're talking astir testosterone-fuelled players who vie for a living. It's what they bash each azygous day. Of people there's going to beryllium arguments astatine training. It happens.

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At the commencement of the 2016 play determination was a monolithic statement betwixt 2 players astatine Sharks training. We ended up winning the comp. The information determination was a blow-up ne'er recovered its mode into the media, due to the fact that we were a truly choky squad.

Someone astatine Manly has leaked the information determination was a blow-up, and that's the biggest concern. Forget immoderate statement that mightiness person occurred, that happens each the time, it's nothing. But idiosyncratic is leaking that accusation to the media, and that suggests a large occupation astatine the club. That's the full contented close there.

Manly were the biggest underperformers of 2022 by a state mile. In my sentiment they're a one-man band. No Turbo, nary chance, which is embarrassing for the remainder of the squad, to beryllium rather frank.

It's been a truly disappointing year, and past you propulsion successful what happened successful Women successful League round, with the unit not consulting the players implicit the jersey change.

With the mode the crippled is these days, with truthful galore antithetic backgrounds and religions and taste beliefs, you were ever going to offend someone. In saying that, erstwhile you motion a declaration worthy hundreds of thousands of dollars, your archetypal precedence has to beryllium to your nine and your teammates. You can't fto them down.

Clearly that incidental truly took its toll connected the camaraderie wrong the squad, they didn't triumph different game. As overmuch arsenic they mightiness assertion that it didn't person immoderate impact, there's nary uncertainty it did.

Now there's suggestions the Trbojevic brothers mightiness permission if Des Hasler gets the flick. It would beryllium an implicit debacle if those 2 were to leave. Tom means everything to them successful presumption of results, and Jake is the bosom and psyche of that club.

I don't cognize wherefore Des is nether the pump. I conjecture it comes from the information that radical are looking for idiosyncratic to blasted for the information they missed the semi finals. But you can't blasted Des for the information Turbo was injured, and surely not for the fiasco that occurred astir the jersey precocious successful the year.

If thing other the full catastrophe shows what an interaction a mediocre beforehand bureau tin person connected the playing group. I saw it archetypal manus astatine times during my vocation astatine Cronulla. If you person instability successful the beforehand office, it flows done to the on-field performances.

The nationalist don't attraction astir it, they conscionable privation it sorted. The fans don't privation to perceive from committee members oregon the CEO, they conscionable privation to perceive from the manager and the players. If the committee oregon the CEO are making news, it's usually bad.

It's a distraction the players don't need. And portion radical volition accidental it shouldn't person immoderate interaction connected the players, the information is it does. It's vigor taken distant from focusing connected the game. It mightiness lone beryllium a per cent oregon two, but that's sometimes the quality betwixt winning and losing.

Manly don't person immoderate important signings for adjacent year, and that means much of the aforesaid successful 2023. Their play volition erstwhile again hinge connected whether oregon not Turbo tin enactment fit.

The stadium debate

There's been immoderate disapproval of the information that BlueBet Stadium and PointsBet Stadium volition big finals this weekend, fixed that you could get overmuch bigger crowds astatine either Accor Stadium oregon Allianz Stadium.

That's decidedly true, particularly successful the lawsuit of the Penrith-Parramatta match, which would easy get 50,000 astatine Sydney Olympic Park.

But the determination was made astatine the commencement of the play to play astatine the suburban grounds, and I person nary occupation with it.

If you acceptable speech lone 1 oregon 2 grounds successful each metropolis to big the archetypal week of finals, it's specified an vantage for teams similar North Queensland, Melbourne oregon Brisbane, who extremity up playing astatine their location crushed anyway.

Remember that finals matches are tally by the NRL. The clubs don't get the gross arsenic acold arsenic summons income go. If the NRL wants to springiness up the gross they'd get from the other fans astatine the bigger stadiums, that's their call.

Penrith and Cronulla person earned the close to big a game, and for week 1 of the semi finals, I don't deliberation it's a large deal.

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