The Manly Sea Eagles have issued a weird media launch in relation to participant brokers because the membership goes into injury management in regards to the growing affect of controversial rugby league participant agent Isaac Moses on the northern seashores.
Confused? Don’t fear, so have been the remainder of us.
In the spin bowling division this Sea Eagles play is nearly pretty much as good because the ball of the century the late, nice Shane Warne bamboozled Mike Gatting with at Old Trafford again in 1993.
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While the Manly PR machine went to nice lengths to level out how Moses solely has 5 gamers out of 39 at the moment contracted gamers on the Sea Eagles – as is commonly the case the satan lies within the element.
The information are Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold is managed by Isaac Moses. Moses additionally negotiated the offers for Seibold’s assistant coaches Shane Flanagan and Jim Dymock to land on the northern seashores.
Moses additionally did the deal for Manly’s new head of recruitment Peter Gentle – certainly one of rugby league’s real good guys.
These are the true numbers the remainder of the rugby league world is throughout – not the Sea Eagles leg spin designed to bamboozle everybody.
When Seibold initially signed on the Manly in November final yr, the Sea Eagles solely had one Moses consumer on their books in Ethan Bullemor.
Yet within the 9 months since out of the eight gamers the Sea Eagles have signed – six have been Moses shoppers.
Aaron Woods, Matt Lodge, Ben Condon, Cooper Johns, Luke Brooks and Tommy Talau have all joined or are set to affix Manly since Seibold’s arrival.
Seibold has apparently cracked it after the historical past of Moses’s involvement at a number of NRL golf equipment was unpacked on Triple M’s Sunday Sin Bin over the weekend.
The Brisbane Broncos, New Zealand Warriors, Wests Tigers and Parramatta have been used as examples of golf equipment the place Moses has beforehand been in a position to acquire large affect over the roster.
The Broncos acquired the membership’s first-ever picket spoon below the tutelage of Seibold in 2020 with a number of Moses shoppers on the Red Hill membership’s roster.
So whereas Manly try to smother Moses’ ever-increasing affect on the Sea Eagles, the reality is the numbers don’t lie.
The Sea Eagles have listed Moses’s Cove company as rating fifth on the desk of participant brokers the membership is at the moment working with.
Mario Tartak’s Crown Sports International ranks first together with Daniel O’Louglin’s Wasserman, each with seven gamers on the Sea Eagles.
Next up is Pacific Sports Management (Chris and Gavin Orr) with six.
Then there’s SFX Sports Group (Paul Sutton, Pete Menicou and George Mimis) and Moses’s Cove Agency with 5.
Again, the satan lies within the element.
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By the time Luke Brooks and Tommy Talau arrive on the finish of the season Moses will leap to the gold medal place with seven gamers.
Tartak can also be within the strategy of the shifting the Fainu brothers Latu and Samuela – which means Crown Sports International will drop to 3rd place with 5 gamers.
Once you begin to unpack all of the ins and outs there’s a really clear sample that’s emerged on the northern seashores since Seibold was signed as Manly coach.
Why the Sea Eagles felt it crucial to place out a media launch about that is anybody’s guess.
Talk about leaping at shadows. Here’s a thought. Maybe concentrate on profitable some video games and attempting to make a late run at taking part in finals.
This was the Manly Sea Eagles media launch:
“Manly Warringah Sea Eagles has tabled the list of player management agencies the Club is working with in 2023.
“It shows the Sea Eagles have 10 player management agencies representing 39 contracted players, a list that includes all NRL, Development, and Train and Trial players.
“To avoid any misconception, the breakdown is as follows.”
Crown Sports International – Mario Tartak – 7
Wasserman – Daniel O’Loughlin – 7
Pacific Sports Management – Chris Orr, Gavin Orr, Simon Healey – 6
SFX Sports Group – Paul Sutton, Peter Menicou, George Mimis – 5
Cove Agency – Isaac Moses – 5
Sports Player Management – Tyran Smith -3
Titan Sports Management – David Riolo – 3
Ignite Sports – Joe Wehbe – 1
Apex Sports Agency – David Rawlings – 1
Gillis Schifcofske Sports Management – Steve Gillis – 1
Let’s lower by way of the BS. By November of this yr Moses could have extra shoppers than every other agent at Manly.
Manly can’t manipulate these numbers.
Source: www.foxsports.com.au