I have a feeling there may be a few available from the Sea Eagles soon......
I have a feeling there may be a few available from the Sea Eagles soon......
Tom Turbo and Brooks are good mates
I have a feeling there may be a few available from the Sea Eagles soon......
Tom Turbo and Brooks are good mates
Dare we dream?
I have a feeling there may be a few available from the Sea Eagles soon......
Tom Turbo and Brooks are good mates
Dare we dream?
Bit early for that but major changes unfolding at Manly. Likely to be a big spill out. I expect things to get juicy when some people get back from world cup
Hopefully Akoula jumps ship over to us with Tommy. Will be eagerly watching the Manly drama unfold!
I have a feeling there may be a few available from the Sea Eagles soon......
Tom Turbo and Brooks are good mates
Dare we dream?
Probably just me but I can’t imagine the Turbo boys wearing any other jersey.
@tigerinzurich absolutely no chance any turbo will leave manly. the whole family appears to be very loyal to manly
@tigerinzurich absolutely no chance any turbo will leave manly. the whole family appears to be very loyal to manly
Welcome to the forum. Yeah I think getting them away from Manly would be a very difficult assignment.
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Clause for concern: Have the Trbojevic brothers had enough of Manly?
By Michael Chammas (SMH)
October 12, 2022 — 5.33am
During their most recent contract negotiations with Manly, Jake and Tom Trbojevic requested a Des Hasler clause to be inserted in their deals.
It was designed to give them the freedom to explore other options if Manly and Hasler ever parted ways, such was their satisfaction with the coach’s maiden season in his Sea Eagles second-coming in 2019.
For all of Manly’s faults, of which there are many, at least someone had the foresight (or memories of Hasler’s previous acrimonious exit from the club) to reject the Trbojevics’ requests.
It didn’t stop the brothers from signing a six-year extension worth close to a combined $13 million to keep them at Brookvale until the end of 2026.
Had Manly caved to the Trbojevics’ demands four years ago, those in charge today would be having some restless nights over what the brothers – described by many as the heart and soul of the club – would be thinking.
For all the talk about frustrations within the playing group, there is growing frustration from key players towards the club over an endless cycle of bickering and back-stabbing.
The Trbojevics’ connection with the club runs deeper than most in a football team made up largely of players parachuted into the northern beaches from all corners of Sydney.
The pair want nothing more than to win a premiership for the area they have lived their entire lives, and for the football club they grew up supporting.
Even without a clause in their contract allowing them to become free agents if Hasler left, the forthcoming departure of the coach has cast doubts over their desire to remain at the club.
Those doubts have been triggered by an overwhelming concern that things at Manly will never change. Tom is 26 and Jake will be 29 by the time next season rolls around. They have told those close to them that they don’t want to waste the best years of their respective careers.
Rival clubs are now queuing at the south side of the Spit Bridge as word begins to spread around town that the brothers may have finally had enough. That their loyalty to the club has diminished to the point where only the commitment to their teammates is keeping the pair from trying to escape.
The Herald has been told that word has gotten back to the Trbojevic camp that some inside the Sea Eagles are questioning their value to the organisation, in particular Tom. If those views were expressed publicly it would risk providing the brothers with the ammunition to request a release.
The fullback is on $1.1m a season but injury has restricted him to just 32 games in the three seasons since signing the mega extension leading into the 2020 season.
The Herald spoke to Tom on Tuesday. Out of respect for the club he decided against commenting on the situation unfolding, but admitted he was losing patience. Jake is in the United Kingdom with the Kangaroos for the World Cup.
When contacted by the Herald, new Manly chief executive Tony Mestrov strongly denied that he was behind a move to usher the Trbojevics to the exit doors.
In fact Mestrov insists he’s taken the opposite approach, arranging several meetings with the pair to make them feel the love from a club that is on the brink of a civil war.
The most pressing concern for the Sea Eagles is the future of Hasler, who is now threatening legal action against the club.
There’s no coming back from that. The Sea Eagles believe they can part ways with Hasler and only pay him the $450,000 termination fee they agreed to when they signed the contract.
Hasler, though, is aggrieved with the club because he believes their incompetence surrounding the handling of the rainbow jersey fiasco cost him the chance to trigger a one-year extension for 2024.
If he finished the 2022 season inside the top six, Manly would have had no choice but to give him another season as per the performance criteria in his contract.
When Hasler sat in front of the cameras in July, his decision to take aim at club powerbrokers for the mess his team found itself in put him on a collision course with owner Scott Penn.
The Hasler camp believes Penn, who spends most of his time living in New York, has been gunning for Hasler ever since.
Penn will get his man. Anthony Seibold will become coach of Manly. And the Sea Eagles will go on doing the same Sea Eagles things they’ve been doing the past couple of decades. But at what cost this time?
Getting the Turbo Bros would be the biggest coup in recent rugby league history - go for it Tigers!
What are Manly doing...?
Hasler is a great coach yet they seem to be gently pushing him out the door with a firm hand on the small of his back... to what? bring in Seibold who failed miserably at the Broncos...
Just wow!
But yes 100% hats in the ring for all 3 turbo bros.
@nuggetron agree not a snowflakes chance in hell of the brothers leaving manly
@tigerinzurich absolutely no chance any turbo will leave manly. the whole family appears to be very loyal to manly
Things are about to get VERY ugly on the peninsula. If I was the club I would be targeting the “blacktown” Polynesians.
@tiger_alex power struggle . Now that we have our COE that clubs infrastructure is something that resembles Wrexham fc , if not worse , rather than an elite sports club. The fact they are privately owned and still rocking that type of infrastructure says a lot about what the Penn family really think of thier asset .
That club has a monopoly from Pittwater to Mosman as far west as lane cove , and Is a huge part of the community and the social fabric of the region . Yet every few years something like this comes along , where your reminded how very poorly ran the club is .
they are just blessed by Geography and the insular peninsula. Otherwise no player would ever sign for them.
Shame about the timing, I would have been keen on Hasler succeeding Madge.
