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Hopoate to Parra 2014

Loudstrat

Coach
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Good luck to Wil 500k wasn't enough to stay loyal,
Hoppa snr can be head of security at Parra now

As a avid eagles fans, well parra get one up on us. Good on the kid super money, the one thing i have to say to parra fans with the we got one up one you is well no you did not, we got jamie lyon who has had a massive influence on 3 grand final appearances and 8 back to back finals campaigns then turned trex into a dud footballer who hindmarsh did not rate and Jamie Buhrer so no we still have the ledger.

Good luck with his old man on coaching staff that is all i can say, see ya later hopoate one thing don't come back when things turn to shit at parra like they always do.

While the kid is a super talent we still easily won games with out him when wolfman and robbo where on wings, our club will win more titles as long as dce, foran, lyon, watmough and stewart boys. Our wing will still be strong david williams back ben farrar back from france, oldfield and whare as back up.
Young lussick is a rep player of future so more grand finals for manly more false hopes for parra.
I can see a premiership doesnt even soften the blow of the Silvertails being outbid. OK, we'd love your trophy, but not your poverty.

Anyway, we've been Manly's feeder club for so long, but I guess when you are a club that continually fails to develop quality juniors you have to poach 'em from somewhere, and Politis has the Canterbury production line covered. If Lissick is the future of your club, god help you. He's so f*cking dumb he'd make Watmough look like Stephen Hawking.

Anyway, we kept Hayne. You got Wolfman :lol:

He is going to be playing wig at parra 800 k winger no way he will get full back of hayne lol
FFS I know the schooling system in Queensland is as dodgey as it gets, but please, wtf is playing wig? Is that how you got Folau, by offering to play dress ups?
 

ManlyMania

Juniors
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Good luck to Hoppa - he gave us a premiership and so did the Lyon king.....thats the best purchase Manly have ever made - gee it must have hurt parra fans seeing him lift that trophy as captain on Sunday....
 

Poupou Escobar

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Anyway, we've been Manly's feeder club for so long

That should stop now we've gotten rid of Reddy.

The big question though is whether Reddy is still receiving a paycheck from Manly. He's been so good for them over the past 5 years they must have been paying him something.
 

MSIH

Bench
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I can see a premiership doesnt even soften the blow of the Silvertails being outbid. OK, we'd love your trophy, but not your poverty.

Anyway, we've been Manly's feeder club for so long, but I guess when you are a club that continually fails to develop quality juniors you have to poach 'em from somewhere, and Politis has the Canterbury production line covered. If Lissick is the future of your club, god help you. He's so f*cking dumb he'd make Watmough look like Stephen Hawking.

Anyway, we kept Hayne. You got Wolfman :lol:


FFS I know the schooling system in Queensland is as dodgey as it gets, but please, wtf is playing wig? Is that how you got Folau, by offering to play dress ups?

You mean junior talent like the guy you just signed for $850k a year? Or the two 16 or 17's year olds you just signed for massive deals (Joey Lussick and Jamil).

Manly could've offered more to Hoppa if the squad was as devoid of talent like Parra's is. Good on the guy, good coin for less work. 3 less games a year.

Don't cheer too loudly when Lussick's playing for NSW.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Good luck to Hoppa - he gave us a premiership and so did the Lyon king.....thats the best purchase Manly have ever made - gee it must have hurt parra fans seeing him lift that trophy as captain on Sunday....

It did.

That's why we've gone all out to pick the eyes out of your junior 'system'. We owe you (and Cleal) big time and payback's a bitch.
 

MSIH

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That should stop now we've gotten rid of Reddy.

The big question though is whether Reddy is still receiving a paycheck from Manly. He's been so good for them over the past 5 years they must have been paying him something.

Shit, you guys really spear Reddy? I loved his work. "Buhrer's too small" was a personal favourite.
 
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I don't get why they gave John Hopoate a job, if he actually offered something then Manly would have signed him ages ago.

Tbh I don't think Osbourne is a good CEO at all, he seems very amateurish and messy with his dealings; but then again he is probably the 3-4th best CEO in the NRL but that doesn't say much about the quality of CEO's in the NRL.
 
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Twizzle

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He is going to be playing wig at parra 800 k winger no way he will get full back of hayne lol

lol, we dont have any openings for wig at this stage

he'll play centre no doubt as we just finished our season with 2 backrowers playing in the centres in Smith and Horro

I suspect the $850K figure that is being bandied about is for the 3 of them
 

El Diablo

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I don't get why they gave John Hopoate a job, if he actually offered something then Manly would have signed him ages ago.

Tbh I don't think Osbourne is a good CEO at all, he seems very amateurish and messy with his dealings; but then again he is probably the 3-4th best CEO in the NRL but that doesn't say much about the quality of CEO's in the NRL.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/hopoates-eels-move-dismays-hasler-20111004-1l7bj.html

Eels sources have denied reports Hopoate's father could be offered a coaching position.
 

ozjet1

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Everybody except you by the looks of things.

Parra have 4 players contracted for 2014:

Hayne
Mannah
Sandow
Hopoate

Any recruitment/retention decisions they make between now and then will take these four contracts into account.

It's not some dark art.

no shit it's not some dark art.

roster issues will enfold between now and then. will be interesting if the fruitpickers grade some backline talent from their wonderful junior pool out there in the hills, and have a forward pack of duds when 2014. then what happens with the big money signing when other positions of weakness need attention?

nah, what was i thinking. for all the jerking off about parra juniors, the football club itself cant even tell who is decent and who is shit in their own backyard. what about osbourne? is he doing anything to try and implement programs to identify, nuture and most importantly keep the parra's own great talent? the only thing the fruitpickers and it's fans are justified in claiming is that they grow up playing footy representing the eels juniors. they win NRL premierships elsewhere. they're so desperate for anything that they've gone out of their way to lock up a bloke who wont step onto an NRL field for two years.

in the meantime, fatbourne can continue to overlook the wealth of talent under his nose and hand out comfy paychecks instead to the likes of the webbs and walkers of rugby league, or poach established or winning players from other clubs with decent coin.

some great CEO. obviously graduated from the NRLs school of management because not many of them are much chop anyway.
 

Garts

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I can see a premiership doesnt even soften the blow of the Silvertails being outbid. OK, we'd love your trophy, but not your poverty.

Anyway, we've been Manly's feeder club for so long, but I guess when you are a club that continually fails to develop quality juniors you have to poach 'em from somewhere, and Politis has the Canterbury production line covered. If Lissick is the future of your club, god help you. He's so f*cking dumb he'd make Watmough look like Stephen Hawking.

Anyway, we kept Hayne. You got Wolfman :lol:


FFS I know the schooling system in Queensland is as dodgey as it gets, but please, wtf is playing wig? Is that how you got Folau, by offering to play dress ups?

So what if he is dumb. He is not performing brain surgury. He runs into other blokes and trys to smash other blokes. Do you need a uni degree for that?
 

Poupou Escobar

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nah, what was i thinking. for all the jerking off about parra juniors, the football club itself cant even tell who is decent and who is shit in their own backyard. what about osbourne? is he doing anything to try and implement programs to identify, nuture and most importantly keep the parra's own great talent?

He's replaced Reddy with Nolan.

Instant win.

As an added bonus, with Reddy gone from the Eels, Manly will have to start looking elsewhere for juniors. Looks like they'll even have to start paying their own some decent coin or they could lose them.

We've already seen how rabid they get when the shoe is on the other foot. Didn't they just win a grand final this week? No one knows. All they're talking about is Gallop's apology and Hopoate's new contract.

As of this year we have loads of talent locked up until 2013 and beyond. We're not only signing up our own junior talent but Manly's as well - Vescio, Jamil Hopoate, Joey Lussick.

The future is looking good and it started with the axing of Fitzgerald and his politics and continued with bringing Kearney and Nolan to the club.

Just like President Obama said, it's time for a change. :lol:
 

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