upthetigers
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He's on parole and can't play bro
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vlad
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Can’t remember where I heard or read it but it was something about the nrl not allowing him to play until his parole is finished which would be 2030 about 4 years after his pending release from jail.
liltiger
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100% if Douhi is playing well enough to keep Latu out imo it's better for Latu to ease his way in to the halves. The kids only 19. He's got around 15 years of football ahead of him if his body holds up. I'd rather we ease him into it than just throw him in like we did with Galvin.
liltiger
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This is my real worry. I'm hoping the consistent injury free gametime hopefully he's finding consistent form.
TheEnz
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I don't want to say rocks and diamonds because I don't think AD has a bad game in regards to errors and the like....its more passionate/interested/somewhat interested/disinterested with him. not that long ago, In a really shitty team he was often our best player, in between injuries....I know that's not saying much, however I think in a team that is on an upward trend, with some quality around him, we may get more of the passionate/interested performances from him...esp if there is pressure on him to keep his spot in the first grade team. I say pay him $400k x 2 years
teddy23
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Mainuse’s management team from what I’m being told is working very very hard from behind the scenes to try make it possible to find ways for registration by next year or potentially 2027 - then if successfully registered they’ve made it clear to the club he’d like to earn a spot via a T&T.
Mario Tartak has an extremely close bond with Mainuse and has made it his personal mission to find ways to allow him to play with his brothers pending release.
Just what I’m being told - unsure how likely or even if the club are interested.
It's pretty hard to say at this stage that the team hasn't improved. Obviously the cattle is better but I think an honest assessment of the squad's quality at the start of the season would have pegged us round about where we are now: clear of spoon danger but just as far from finals. FWIW I have it on decent authority that the powers that be within the club weren't expecting finals this year - it was always down as a progress season and there will be more expectation next year.
What I keep coming across at the moment is the idea that NRL is not a game about your star players but about the mid-to-bottom level of the roster. The 17th best player on your roster is going to play even when everyone is fit and with injuries you're going to need to rely on players 20-30, a lot. As we've seen, when we can put close to our best 17 on the park we're pretty competitive. We fall in a heap when we need to use the bottom end of the roster - and we haven't even been particularly unlucky with injuries this year.
That's why I think a big focus of Richardson's was getting rid of the dead wood, and why I think we'll focus in this off-season on turning over more of the bottom 10-15 players. With KPP, Taylan May and Makasini, and - hopefully - a better year out of Pole there shouldn't be an obvious weakness in the first choice side. But we need proper, first-grade standard depth: better options to come in than Staines, Hope, Sukkar (who could improve but clearly isn't there yet), Fa'atape and so forth, and a bit more reliability out of the backup middles.
What this also means is that we're only going to become competitive in the long run when we are producing first-grade quality juniors, year in year out, as a matter of course. These players, 20-30 on the roster, are going to be on low salaries (especially when you're relying on the free agent market, and thus paying overs, for your stars). Yes, there are occasional diamonds that can be picked up from the discard pile - but it's not reliable.
What I keep coming across at the moment is the idea that NRL is not a game about your star players but about the mid-to-bottom level of the roster. The 17th best player on your roster is going to play even when everyone is fit and with injuries you're going to need to rely on players 20-30, a lot. As we've seen, when we can put close to our best 17 on the park we're pretty competitive. We fall in a heap when we need to use the bottom end of the roster - and we haven't even been particularly unlucky with injuries this year.
That's why I think a big focus of Richardson's was getting rid of the dead wood, and why I think we'll focus in this off-season on turning over more of the bottom 10-15 players. With KPP, Taylan May and Makasini, and - hopefully - a better year out of Pole there shouldn't be an obvious weakness in the first choice side. But we need proper, first-grade standard depth: better options to come in than Staines, Hope, Sukkar (who could improve but clearly isn't there yet), Fa'atape and so forth, and a bit more reliability out of the backup middles.
What this also means is that we're only going to become competitive in the long run when we are producing first-grade quality juniors, year in year out, as a matter of course. These players, 20-30 on the roster, are going to be on low salaries (especially when you're relying on the free agent market, and thus paying overs, for your stars). Yes, there are occasional diamonds that can be picked up from the discard pile - but it's not reliable.
TheEnz
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I would give him a shot as a redemption story and a second chance, however, would not make any recruitment decisions in relation to an expectation that he becomes a first grader.
liltiger
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Quick question I just thought of, with this hand gesture that supposedly offended the poor dogs supporters, you know how the gesture means to bugger off. Im wondering if the middle finger is broken, dislocated, twisted kind of out of whack or if it has real bad arthritis so it's all over the shop, would that count as a speech impediment.
TheEnz
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And you will not have wishart, pezet, fualago type players in your 17 - 30 if you are not a successful club, with good development systems in place, it is a bit of a catch 22.
Don Kershane
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‘Comatose for two days’: Former NRL player launches $5 million lawsuit against Manly
Lloyd Perrett claims his NRL career – and almost his life – prematurely ended after he was deprived of water at a Manly training session. The matter has just become a multimillion-dollar Supreme Court case.
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Considering he's wants a third of Luai wage I think he has shown he has value. I think we have to keep him personally. Plus it would be good we have players that have been here for a while wanting to stay. His public announcements to Rucho shows he wants to stay. I'd keep him personally.
It's possible to develop good pathways and a production line of talent without being a destination club for established first graders, though. Penrith and Canberra are the most obvious examples, also the Warriors.
liltiger
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He's handy in that he can play anywhere in the backline and 13, just for the utility value I'd keep him.
Oh damm I thought it may of been tino and Farnworth. So there not coming is that what your saying
He was exceptional on the weekend although I don't think he's had the year they were talking abt. Think May suits our side better all round although would be nice to have another big front rower
hank37w
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So, just playing devil's advocate here but, someone is released from jail and his prior occupation is professional football player, should the NRL have the right to refuse him to make an honest living as part of his release and rehabilitation.
Would it happen if he was a builder, plumber or electrician?
Would the Master Builder's Association or relevant industry association say that he could not work in that industry until the time that his full prison term has expired?
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jirskyr
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Comatose for two days’: Former NRL player launches $5 million lawsuit against Manly
Adrian Proszenko
ByAdrian Proszenko
August 4, 2025 — 3.43pm
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Former NRL forward Lloyd Perrett has launched a $5 million lawsuit against the Manly Sea Eagles, claiming he was placed in a “a comatose state for two days” after a training session which he has never recovered from.
A statement of claim filed in the Supreme Court outlines the career-ending injuries he allegedly suffered during a pre-season workout at the Narrabeen Sports Complex on November 6, 2017.
Lloyd Perrett is suing the Sea Eagles.
Lloyd Perrett is suing the Sea Eagles.Credit:NRL Photos
According to the claim filed by Brisbane legal firm Carter Capner and obtained by this masthead, Perrett suffered exertional heat stroke, heat stress-induced seizure and psychiatric injury during running sessions in which he was deprived of water.
It’s alleged that after a 20-minute warm-up, Perrett was made to complete three two-kilometre time trials, with a two-minute break between the first and second. The first took Perrett eight minutes and 23 seconds, the second 10 minutes and 30 seconds. Perrett then completed one lap of the third before he “collapsed unconscious to the ground.”
“The Plaintiff was not supplied with any water or other fluids during the Training Session because Mr Dan Ferris, the Club Performance Coach, had directed before the start of the session that there would be no water breaks,” the claim states. The temperature in Sydney on the day was in the mid-20 degree celsius.
As a result, Perrett’s lawyers say their client was in “a comatose state for two days” and suffered “disabilities” including a seizure, poor heat tolerance, severe pain, fatigue, muscular degeneration, impaired cognitive ability, anxiety, moodiness and poor kidney, liver and thyroid function.
jirskyr
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The claim states the incident prompted the “loss of NRL career” and “loss of future incoming earning capacity”. While there is no mention of the recompense sought in the documents filed to the court, sources not authorised to speak publicly due to the matter being before the courts said the figure would be about $5 million.
The claim states Manly was negligent in its “Failure to provide a safe place of work”, citing a number of issues including “Depriving the plaintiff of water and other fluids during the training session”, not taking into account that players were returning to training after an end-of-season break and not considering each players’ physical preparedness to withstand the demands of the session. Those failings, the claim states, resulted in “Placing the plaintiff in a position of peril.”
Following the incident, Perrett was taken to Mona Vale Hospital by ambulance for emergency treatment and remained there until discharged three days later. The claim states Perrett recuperated at home for seven weeks “in a state of severe pain and nausea with a lack of capacity to thermoregulate and unable to engage in any physical activity.” He started walking six weeks after the incident and resumed team training in the third week of December 2017, where he participated in a portion of the session before he became “dizzy” and suffered from “blurred vision”, resulting in club treatment and a return to hospital.
“As a result of the injuries and continuing disabilities, the plaintiff has sustained consequential losses in that he was unable to regain his pre-accident form as a first-grade rugby league player and was prevented from progressing his playing career in the NRL Competition or otherwise,” the claim states.
“The plaintiff played in 10 or 11 games under the NRL Playing Contract in 2018 at far below the level of performance he would have enjoyed but for the Accident because he could not thermoregulate, he was in constant pain, he was prevented from taking the medication indicated by reason of the NRL Anti-Doping Rules by which the parties were bound and he spent a lot of time in each game off the field.”
Before the incident, Perrett was considered a player of great promise. The claim states he received a rugby league scholarship from the age of 13 or 14 at the Sydney Roosters after being spotted by the club’s then recruiter Peter O’Sullivan; was a former Junior Kangaroos co-captain and NSW Cup player of the year; represented Queensland at junior level and was later picked in an emerging Maroons senior squad, and was a regular NRL player.
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