Everyone off contract should be on notice for not having his contract renewed, and that includes our starting front row.
Mannah is one of our best forwards, but it's a fairly small, ordinary pack. Mannah would make the top 17 at any club, including the Roosters, but would he be the highest paid anywhere else? No chance.
If he wants to stay he should take a pay cut. Then we could put some better forwards around him. Fui and Ben Smith need to go just because they're old and highly paid.
Get rid of those two, plus save some money on Mannah (if he re-signs cheaply) and we can get some more size into the club. But honestly, our pack is as big as Manly's, and they just beat Souths. It's not size we need so much as harder attitudes. We need more merkins.
We were overpowered today but that's because a slow pitch suits a huge pack. In the dry we might've been ahead at halftime and never got the chance to give up. Our problem is still that we're quitters. We need to buy some tougher merkins.