Veteran prop forward Siosiua Taukeiaho has been rewarded for his terrific return to the NRL with a new one-year deal to remain at the Sea Eagles who relied on him through the middle for much of 2025.<\/p>\n
There were fears the former premiership winner at the Roosters could be lost to rugby league after an underwhelming stint at Catalans and a failed medical that blocked a potential move to the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
But Taukeiaho, 33, made the most of his Manly lifeline in 2025 and had to carry the forward pack that dealt with long-term injuries to Taniela Paseka (Achilles) and Haumole Olakau\u2019atu (shoulder).<\/p>\n
\u201cSiua was tremendous for the team in his first year back in the NRL,\u201d Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEffort after effort and just so consistent with his performances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a lot of injuries to our middles last season, so Siua\u2019s contribution to the team became even more important.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of our leaders who shows the way week in, week out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taukeiaho is at the back end of his career but will provide much-needed leadership and experience to a team that will be without Daly Cherry-Evans and middle forwards Toff Sipley and Josh Aloiai next season.<\/p>\n
They have signed Kobe Hetherington from the Broncos and will get Davvy Moale in 2027, although there are reports the club could try to bring him over earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really happy to have signed on at Manly for another year,\u201d Taukeiaho said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a terrific a group we\u2019ve got here, both players and staff, and I think the future looks bright.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed the break, my body feels good, so pre-season here we come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran prop forward Siosiua Taukeiaho has been rewarded for his terrific return to the NRL with a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,16660,761,762,158,4523,167126,85,167275],"class_list":["post-290691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-manly-warringah-sea-eagles","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sea-eagles","tag-siosiua-taukeiaho","tag-sports","tag-taniela-paseka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290691","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=290691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}