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CRONULLA Sharks will have at least five players seeking first-grade selection in 2009, but the big question hanging over the future of the suspended Test player, Greg Bird, won't be answered until after he reappears on assault charges next week.
Despite losing injured five-eighth Brett Seymour from their finals campaign, the Sharks management took a hard-line position not to lift the suspension on Bird, who played no part in the Sharks finals campaign.
With veteran half Brett Kimmorley leaving for the Bulldogs, the Sharks next season will lean on the class of former Australian Test star Trent Barrett and Test forward, Anthony Tupou.
Former Dragons star Barrett led Wigan's charge to the Super League finals, before they lost to Leeds on the weekend.
He will play outside Seymour, who will take Kimmorley's place at half.
The Roosters' Tupou links up with his Test coach and his former Roosters coach, Ricky Stuart.
Tough veteran Canterbury hooker, Corey Hughes, has also signed on for a season and will lend young hooker Terrence Seu Seu invaluable experience.
The Sharks also hold high hopes for Australian schoolboys centre Matt Wright, the strong-running New Zealand-born Penrith schoolboy, as well as Parramatta's promising under-20s prop John Mannah.
Eighteen-year-old Jason McGrady, a nephew of former Rothman's Medallist Ewan McGrady, is joining Cronulla on a two-year deal from Group Two club Orara Valley in Coffs Harbour.
Sharks CEO Tony Zappia said the club would also re-sign improving winger Misi Taulapapa.
The Sharks farewell a number of players: first-graders Kimmorley, prop Danny Nutley (retired), hooker Isaac de Gois (Knights), prop Adam Peek (Celtic Crusaders) and hooker Kevin Kingston, who yesterday was officially released from his final season with the Sharks next year to join Parramatta.
source: http://stgeorge.yourguide.com.au/ne...as-retirement-and-transfers-bite/1321606.aspx
Despite losing injured five-eighth Brett Seymour from their finals campaign, the Sharks management took a hard-line position not to lift the suspension on Bird, who played no part in the Sharks finals campaign.
With veteran half Brett Kimmorley leaving for the Bulldogs, the Sharks next season will lean on the class of former Australian Test star Trent Barrett and Test forward, Anthony Tupou.
Former Dragons star Barrett led Wigan's charge to the Super League finals, before they lost to Leeds on the weekend.
He will play outside Seymour, who will take Kimmorley's place at half.
The Roosters' Tupou links up with his Test coach and his former Roosters coach, Ricky Stuart.
Tough veteran Canterbury hooker, Corey Hughes, has also signed on for a season and will lend young hooker Terrence Seu Seu invaluable experience.
The Sharks also hold high hopes for Australian schoolboys centre Matt Wright, the strong-running New Zealand-born Penrith schoolboy, as well as Parramatta's promising under-20s prop John Mannah.
Eighteen-year-old Jason McGrady, a nephew of former Rothman's Medallist Ewan McGrady, is joining Cronulla on a two-year deal from Group Two club Orara Valley in Coffs Harbour.
Sharks CEO Tony Zappia said the club would also re-sign improving winger Misi Taulapapa.
The Sharks farewell a number of players: first-graders Kimmorley, prop Danny Nutley (retired), hooker Isaac de Gois (Knights), prop Adam Peek (Celtic Crusaders) and hooker Kevin Kingston, who yesterday was officially released from his final season with the Sharks next year to join Parramatta.
source: http://stgeorge.yourguide.com.au/ne...as-retirement-and-transfers-bite/1321606.aspx