“A shit sandwich of a squad.”
At the time of Seibolds appointment, Manly were 1 season removed from finishing 3rd.
He also had
- Former Dally M Winner, Origin rep and arguably one of the greatest fullbacks we have ever seen.
- Current Queensland and Former Australian Halfback
- Current NSW and Current Australian Prop
- 2 Tongan Internationals
So how about some of the coaching and recruitment decisions made by Tony Seibs during his time at Manly.
- Played Tommy Talau at Halfback.
- Played Cooper Johns over Jamie Humphreys.
- Used Kaeo Weekes as a utility hooker.
- Openly tried to recruit Sam Walker to play fullback.
- Named Karl Lawton at Halfback (thankfully someone told him to not follow through with this).
- Was in a 1 man bidding war with himself to sign Luke Brooks.
- Let Samuela and Lath Fainu walk
- Let Jamie Humphreys walk.
- Started Brandon Wakeham at hooker for all of 24 minutes.
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