{"id":153559,"date":"2025-09-19T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153559\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:16:09","slug":"manly-set-to-extend-unlucky-star-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153559\/","title":{"rendered":"Manly set to extend unlucky star &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> have undergone a significant roster shake-up ahead of the 2025 season, and while they&#8217;ve let several stars go, a couple are set to remain in the Northern Beaches.<\/p>\n<p>One man who will be extending his time in Manly is utility half <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/brandon-wakeham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Wakeham<\/a>, who has been unlucky in his pursuit of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> return in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being named in the Sea Eagles&#8217; extended squad this year, Wakeham was unable to crack the club&#8217;s starting 17, further diminishing his rugby league stocks.<\/p>\n<p>While he has been unlucky in 2025, the club has faith that he can turn things back around, handing him a 12-month extension to remain a Sea Eagle until the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Wakeham&#8217;s new contract is a top 30 deal, sparking hope for the 26-year-old&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Wakeham, who can play as a halfback or hooker, hasn&#8217;t featured in first grade since 2023, where he last played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The Manly Sea Eagles have undergone a significant roster shake-up ahead of the 2025 season, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-153559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}