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Menzies ready to sign on
15/08/2007 11:40:56 AM
Adam Lucius
Sportal
http://sportal.com.au/default.aspx/league-news-display/menzies-ready-to-sign-on-33397
Manly veteran Steve Menzies is waiting to sign up for the 16th and final year of his magnificent career with the Sea Eagles - if only he can track down his manager.
Menzies revealed on Wednesday he was keen to go around again in 2008 and that negotiations had been going well until hitting a dead end a few weeks back.
The laidback 33-year-old thanked the media for reminding him he was currently without a job for next year.
"I'm glad you reminded me. I haven't spoken to (manager Wayne) Beavis for a while. I don't know what they're doing," he laughed.
"I'm still keen to do something. It's been going along nicely but I hadn't really focused on next year so I might have to call him."
"I'm still enjoying my football and I still think I've got something to offer."
"I'm still competing at this level so I suppose that's why I've got a manager, so he can work (it) out."
"I'm not much of a negotiator so I'll leave it to Beavis."
"When he calls he'll have something to give me and we can say yes or no or go back."
"We'll have to see what he comes back with."
With the Sea Eagles cruising along in second spot with three rounds left, a grand final berth looks a genuine prospect.
But Menzies said even a premiership win would not be enough to tempt him to call it quits.
"If we won a grand final one year hopefully you'd be in contention the next year and you'd want to hang around and see how we went that year," he said.
"I don't think it will depend on how we're going at the end of the year. It will more depend more on how the club's feeling, how the body's feeling."
"If everything is a goer there I'll probably play again."
But it won't be against the only club he's known.
"I wouldn't play for anyone else in the NRL- I'd probably look at overseas - but the preference is to stay at Manly," he said.
"If we can work something out I'd be happy."
Menzies, who missed a large chunk of the 2007 season through injury, is again set to fill in at five-eighth when the Sea Eagles take on finals hopefuls Souths at Telstra Stadium on Monday.
15/08/2007 11:40:56 AM
Adam Lucius
Sportal
http://sportal.com.au/default.aspx/league-news-display/menzies-ready-to-sign-on-33397
Manly veteran Steve Menzies is waiting to sign up for the 16th and final year of his magnificent career with the Sea Eagles - if only he can track down his manager.
Menzies revealed on Wednesday he was keen to go around again in 2008 and that negotiations had been going well until hitting a dead end a few weeks back.
The laidback 33-year-old thanked the media for reminding him he was currently without a job for next year.
"I'm glad you reminded me. I haven't spoken to (manager Wayne) Beavis for a while. I don't know what they're doing," he laughed.
"I'm still keen to do something. It's been going along nicely but I hadn't really focused on next year so I might have to call him."
"I'm still enjoying my football and I still think I've got something to offer."
"I'm still competing at this level so I suppose that's why I've got a manager, so he can work (it) out."
"I'm not much of a negotiator so I'll leave it to Beavis."
"When he calls he'll have something to give me and we can say yes or no or go back."
"We'll have to see what he comes back with."
With the Sea Eagles cruising along in second spot with three rounds left, a grand final berth looks a genuine prospect.
But Menzies said even a premiership win would not be enough to tempt him to call it quits.
"If we won a grand final one year hopefully you'd be in contention the next year and you'd want to hang around and see how we went that year," he said.
"I don't think it will depend on how we're going at the end of the year. It will more depend more on how the club's feeling, how the body's feeling."
"If everything is a goer there I'll probably play again."
But it won't be against the only club he's known.
"I wouldn't play for anyone else in the NRL- I'd probably look at overseas - but the preference is to stay at Manly," he said.
"If we can work something out I'd be happy."
Menzies, who missed a large chunk of the 2007 season through injury, is again set to fill in at five-eighth when the Sea Eagles take on finals hopefuls Souths at Telstra Stadium on Monday.
