5 Former Eels in Manly side...

[Parraren]

The Manly side is:
1 - Andrew WALKER
2- Scott DONALD
3 - Luke WILLIAMSON
4 - Paul STEPHENSON
5 - Chris HICKS
6 - Jye MULLANE
7 - Michael MONAGHAN
8 - Ian DONNELLY
9 - Nathan HOLLINGSWORTH
10- Daniel HECKENBERG
11- Sam HARRIS
12 -Solomon HAUMONO
13 -Steve MENZIES (c)

Replacements:
14- Shayne DUNLEY
15 -Kylie LEULUAI
16 -Anthony WATMOUGH
17 -John HOPOATE
18 -Nick PATTERSON

 

[Twizzle]

And they probably picked a better team than BS did.

 

[The Godfather]

Shayne Dunley is the only one that might have been worth keeping.
Rest are Parra rejects

 

[Phillips]

im looking forward to seeing Kylie Leuluai play

 

[Pazza]

It was a huge mistake to let go of Scott Donald.

 

[Agent Mulder]

It was a huge mistake to let go of Scott Donald.

100%...Should of kept him and let go Richards a year early.

 

[JessEel]

Go my Scotty, Go my Hexy, Go Dunners and Kylie and Scooter
wish them all the best and hope they kick some ass!

Shayne Dunley is the only one that might have been worth keeping.
Rest are Parra rejects

Scott Donald for 2004 top try scorer

 

[PARRA_FAN]

I reckon all the former eels couldve been worth keeping, except Hollingsworth he wasnt that good of a hooker.

I wish we kept Heckenberg and Dunley. Dunley was our best player of 2003, reminded me of Brad Drews form in 2001. Heckenberg did well in the second half of the season. I cant understand why they let him go for Stapleton or even Moi Moi.

 

[The Colonel]

I reckon all the former eels couldve been worth keeping, except Hollingsworth he wasnt that good of a hooker.

I wish we kept Heckenberg and Dunley. Dunley was our best player of 2003, reminded me of Brad Drews form in 2001. Heckenberg did well in the second half of the season. I cant understand why they let him go for Stapleton or even Moi Moi.

I think it all came down to money - Stapleton and especially Moi Moi were a hell of a lot cheaper than Hex. Given that Cayless and Vella are up for contract renewal soon its not a bad move personally.

 

[Phillips]

the only eels i would have kept from last yr would have been: Chan, Leuluai & Dunley

 

[Agent Mulder]

Chan was always Injured.
No Offense i know Heckenberg still has lots of fans at the Eels but i never saw anything in him...I dunno maybe it was just me i suppose but i would still take Stapleton and Peek ahead of Chan and Heckenberg.

Shayne Dunley and Scott Donald were our big losses...The rest playing for Manly i don't reall care about.

 

[Parraren]

Chan was always Injured.
No Offense i know Heckenberg still has lots of fans at the Eels but i never saw anything in him...I dunno maybe it was just me i suppose but i would still take Stapleton and Peek ahead of Chan and Heckenberg.

Shayne Dunley and Scott Donald were our big losses...The rest playing for Manly i don't reall care about.

I'll second that Lyon, my thoughts exactly. It would have been nice to have been able to read into the future and let Patty Richards go a year earlier and kept Scotty D but thats life I guess. Everyone was expecting Patty to come good though, it just didn't happen. Dunley is one of the most damaging & explosive dummy half runners in the game. He can blow a game wide open coming on from the bench. Really wish we kept him because I don't think we have that sort of player in our squad this year.

 

[Eelementary]

I don't know.

What about how Hopkins tore up the Panthers in Round 26 with his dummy half runs?

 

[The Engineers Room]

Personally I'm glad they are all gone. I don't think any of them were worth keeping.