NRL rival becomes FIFTH Xerri suitor as s meeting that sparked bitter fallout revealed<\/a><\/p>\n‘Insipid’ Alexander blasts Manly | 01:21<\/p>\n
Gorden Tallis agreed with Crawley, stating that Jake is no longer the player he used to be, \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the elephant in the room. He\u2019s just not the leader of the pack anymore. The need to go buy a leader of the pack, if you say there\u2019s no leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there\u2019s a role that Jake can play. I think he\u2019s a fantastic guy and he would die for the jersey so that part you keep around but at what price?\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Code Sports\u2019 David Riccio warned that if Seibold decides to make the difficult decision to drop Trbojevic, the fallout would be significant and damaging for the head coach.<\/p>\n
The veteran journalist stated that the move could be \u2018career suicide\u2019 due to his ties at the club and the impact it would have on his two younger brothers – Tom and Ben – as well as the entire playing group.<\/p>\n
Has Seibs run his course at Manly? | 01:36<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Seibold makes the tough call on Jake Trbojevic. The impact on the Trbojevic (brothers) Ben and Tom and that region as far as making that decision on a champion like Jake it will be career suicide,\u201d Riccio said.<\/p>\n
Continuing to discuss the future of the older Trbojevic, co-host and former NRL star Braith Anasta pushed back on this idea and said the decision should be made solely on one\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Jake is a champion human being and we all love him but how\u2019s it career suicide if a player\u2019s not doing their job and whether the brothers are in the team or not,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 15: Jake Trbojevic\u2019s selection has become a major issue for the Sea Eagles.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you saying he\u2019s just picking him because he\u2019s a legend of the club and his brothers are in the side\u201d<\/p>\n
Riccio added, \u201cI think he has huge influence over the team and he\u2019s a leader. A rare leader at the club.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what you\u2019re saying but its a tough one,\u201d Anasta continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate saying it but if you\u2019re doing that and picking a player just because his brothers are in the team and he\u2019s a legend of a club and a great bloke and not just on performance, then there\u2019s trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n
The noise surrounding the future of Jake Trbojevic comes after the club had an abysmal display against the Newcastle Knights last weekend.<\/p>\n
Even when superstars Dylan Brown and Kalyn Ponga exited the field with injuries, they were only able to put one try on the scoreboard and made simple mistakes on both ends of the field in attack and defence.<\/p>\n
This was illustrated perfectly when Reuben Garrick took an intercept and broke through the line but no one was following him and once he played the ball, it was immediately taken by the opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is zero care factor for what\u2019s happening at the moment. This is I\u2019m tired, I can\u2019t chase and that is embarrassing,\u201d Cooper Cronk said on the Matty and Cronk Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s happened there is Reuben Garrick\u2019s taken an intercept and everyone else has putt their hands on their hips and gone \u2018Go Reuben\u2019. No one has followed up and the care factor just wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n
Matthew Johns added, \u201cThere\u2019s barely anyone in the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manly Sea Eagles couldn\u2019t have gotten to a more disastrous start to begin their 2026 campaign, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-547061","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\/547061","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=547061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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