NRL Rd 15 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Thatwasnthighref]

Seibold may he close to looking for a new job

Calling every player in for a 7 min meeting to show them where they are deficient without offering any solution is a good way to get a playing group behind you … lucky he is mates with the boss which may help him

Yea I saw that story earlier... apparently he handed them a piece of paper with the feedback as part of the session? all sounded very odd.

Time boxed scheduling, everything on paper... sounds more like a HR meeting.

 

[Blair]

Yea I saw that story earlier... apparently he handed them a piece of paper with the feedback as part of the session? all sounded very odd.

Time boxed scheduling, everything on paper... sounds more like a HR meeting.

In contrast to the 'change-room door ripped off its hinges approach' of the past. I think I'd prefer that actually. You know where you stand. Did Manly win the following week?

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

In contrast to the 'change-room door ripped off its hinges approach' of the past. I think I'd prefer that actually. You know where you stand. Did Manly win the following week?

After Des popped off? I dunno actually.

But my experiences with HR meetings are universally bad so personally I'd prefer the door dismemberment lol

Edit: Did some digging and apparently yes, Manly beat Newcastle 36-12 the following week and in fact they won their next 4 straight. Not sure today's generation of players would respond so positively though lol

 

[Penrose Warrior]

There's not a club who comes close to doing drama like Manly, right? I mean even when they were in their golden period, there was still a shit tonne of issues going on at Board level.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

In contrast to the 'change-room door ripped off its hinges approach' of the past. I think I'd prefer that actually. You know where you stand. Did Manly win the following week?

That didn’t often lose 2 in a row in that era so they probably did. Just looked it up and the next 4 games were all wins against Newcastle, Warriors, Sharks and Storm

The club is soulless at the moment under Seibold, a captain who doesn’t want to be there, and apart from Jake it is hard to see any passion in the joint, and nothing to suggest a brighter future on the horizon

There has long been a theory that Manly need a Manly coach to be successful (Fulton, Hasler etc), could never question that under Hasler and Toovey, those press conferences are still legendary lol. The club had something special going that you can’t bottle

The muppet owner since them had knifed Hasler (twice) and Toovey, and it’s no coincidence that the stars from that era all abandoned the club. Matai and Lyon haven’t stepped foot back in the joint since, Watmough left bitterly, Glenn Stewart got shafted, Foran tried his best to stuff Manly completely when he left the first time. Watmough and Brett Stewart have come back in recent years but the club lost a lot of ground with their treatment of them

 

[JJ]

That didn’t often lose 2 in a row in that era so they probably did. Just looked it up and the next 4 games were all wins against Newcastle, Warriors, Sharks and Storm

The club is soulless at the moment under Seibold, a captain who doesn’t want to be there, and apart from Jake it is hard to see any passion in the joint, and nothing to suggest a brighter future on the horizon

There has long been a theory that Manly need a Manly coach to be successful (Fulton, Hasler etc), could never question that under Hasler and Toovey, those press conferences are still legendary lol. The club had something special going that you can’t bottle

The muppet owner since them had knifed Hasler (twice) and Toovey, and it’s no coincidence that the stars from that era all abandoned the club. Matai and Lyon haven’t stepped foot back in the joint since, Watmough left bitterly, Glenn Stewart got shafted, Foran tried his best to stuff Manly completely when he left the first time. Watmough and Brett Stewart have come back in recent years but the club lost a lot of ground with their treatment of them

Wiley and Stanton too... interesting... most were imported as players, either established or very young (Hasler), but stayed - something about the culture was right... and everyone else hated it

 

[Beavers Headgear]

@Blair

Remember you saying 12 months ago that Brad Arthur knew Manly were keen on him, have been reading some rumours now that they are extremely keen on him again, but want to keep Seibold around until the end of the season to save 6 months of a payout

 

[Blair]

@Blair

Remember you saying 12 months ago that Brad Arthur knew Manly were keen on him, have been reading some rumours now that they are extremely keen on him again, but want to keep Seibold around until the end of the season to save 6 months of a payout.

I'm back at work next month. If my former deep-Parra mole/not to be deep-WA-Bears mole/perhaps deep-Manly mole comes in I'll ask him!

 

[Beavers Headgear]

I'm back at work next month. If my former deep-Parra mole/not to be deep-WA-Bears mole/perhaps deep-Manly mole comes in I'll ask him!

Apparently Mestrov is keen on him, and last year I remembered you saying he had been informed of the interest in him as well before Seibold extended him

Interesting wee addition to the yarn I was told, he pretty much had the job last year until Isaac Moses said that if they kept Seibold in a job he would deliver Galvin. Before Seibold was extended last year DCE, Jake and Tom met with management and told them Seibold isn’t it