Tom Trbojevic has been identified as the man to captain Manly into their post Daly Cherry-Evans era.<\/p>\n
Trbojevic was appointed to the vacancy on returning for pre-season on Monday, a month after signing a contract extension that quashed speculation over his future.<\/p>\n
Tom Trbojevic takes the reigns from DCE and will Captain in 2026.\u00a0Photo by Jeremy Ng\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old has been stand-in captain twice before, once each in 2024 and 2025, and beat brother and former NSW skipper Jake to the permanent role.<\/p>\n
“Tom leads through his actions on and off the field,” said coach Anthony Seibold.<\/p>\n
“I know he’ll do a great job as captain.”<\/p>\n
Softly-spoken Trbojevic becomes only Manly’s second full-time captain since the start of the 2017 season, when departing halfback Cherry-Evans first took on the role.<\/p>\n
Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n<\/p>\n He is tasked with rousing the Sea Eagles into a new era following the exit of Sydney Roosters recruit Cherry-Evans, their long-time on-field general and most-capped player of all time.<\/p>\n Manly endured a mixed 2025 season that was overshadowed by speculation about Cherry-Evans’ departure and ended in a 10th-placed finish.<\/p>\n Cherry-Evans’ replacement, ex-Canberra veteran Jamal Fogarty, arrived at Brookvale Oval on Monday for his first day of training.<\/p>\n Injury-stricken Trbojevic will hope a full pre-season can translate into his first campaign of playing more than 20 games since 2018.<\/p>\n “The next few months of pre-season will be tough but it’s an exciting time for all of us as we prepare for the new season,” he said.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, South Sydney have held off the threat of breakaway rugby competition R360 and extended Jye Gray’s contract through 2029.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old fullback had a breakout season in 2025, leading the Dally M Medal count early in the campaign, and could keep Latrell Mitchell in the centres this pre-season.<\/p>\n Gray had already been contracted for 2026 and looms as crucial to the Rabbitohs’ hopes of improving on this year’s disappointing 14th-placed finish.<\/p>\n “I’m determined to repay the faith they (Souths) have shown in me by putting my best foot forward over the next few years to help us achieve our goals,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Trbojevic has been identified as the man to captain Manly into their post Daly Cherry-Evans era. Trbojevic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-305613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305613","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=305613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763990290_841_r1576633_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
<\/a>![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763990290_473_r1578062_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n