Manly Sea Eagles head coach Anthony Seibold has promised his membership would signal a thirtieth participant earlier than the June 30 squad deadline – however shut down rumours the membership had already locked in Bulldogs playmaker Kyle Flanagan.
The Canterbury-Bankstown half has fallen down the pecking order in current weeks, final week shifted to five-eighth earlier than this week being dropped fully. The Bulldogs will as an alternative begin Josh Reynolds alongside Matt Burton for Sunday’s battle with the Dragons, with gifted teenager Karl Oloapu on the bench.
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Flanagan was this week linked with a transfer subsequent yr to affix up with father Shane at Brookvale, the place Shane is an assistant coach. Those rumours ratcheted up yesterday when News Corp reported an instantaneous change was on the point of being sealed.
But Manly coach Anthony Seibold stated the membership had not but selected how you can fill its closing roster spot, and confirmed the Sea Eagles ‘certainly’ haven’t signed Flanagan but.
“I’m not going to speculate on that. One thing I will say is that we have a spot to fill. We have signed 29 players, and we are going to fill it before June 30,” Seibold stated throughout his post-game press convention.
“What we are doing at the moment is having a good look at the position we need to fill.
“Probably like an Aaron Woods. We had 28 players, we brought Woodsy in to do a role so we will look around for what we need. We are short for outside backs, potentially we can add to our halves as well, so we will have those conversations during the week, but we certainly haven’t signed Kyle Flanagan if that’s the speculation.”
The Sea Eagles slumped to a poor defeat to the Titans on Saturday at a wet 4 Pines Park.
Source: www.foxsports.com.au