{"id":81172,"date":"2025-08-20T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81172\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:31:09","slug":"sea-eagles-forward-set-to-make-call-on-future-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81172\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Eagles forward set to make call on future – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> forward Siosiua Taukeiaho<\/a> is set to make the most of a strong first year back in the NRL<\/a> by signing a new deal with the club.<\/p>\n

The former Roosters enforcer returned to Australia<\/a> after a stint in the English Super League<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Once rated as one of the best props in the game, his departure to England<\/a> was anything but a positive for Taukeiaho, and while he was originally set to return in 2024 with the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>, a failed medical put that on hold for 12 months before he finally turned out for Anthony Seibold’s side this year.<\/p>\n

The prop has been among Manly’s most consistent performers in 2025, playing 18 games and starting all of them, averaging 120 metres per contest.<\/p>\n

He has also tackled at almost 92 per cent, while also adding 10 tackle busts and 9 offloads.<\/p>\n

According to Wide World of Sports, Taukeiaho, despite being 33 years old, will sign a new deal with Manly over the next month to continue his career into 2026.<\/p>\n

His manager, Peter Menciou, confirmed Taukeiaho wants to keep playing, with an injury limiting his stint in the\u00a0Super League<\/a> contributing to the decision.<\/p>\n

“He has a very strong desire to continue on playing,” Menicou was quoted as saying by the publication.<\/p>\n

“I think considering that he missed a significant amount of time while he was at Catalans (in the Super League<\/a> from 2023 to 24) out injured, I think that’s only prolonged his career. He hadn’t been bashed around for almost 18 months.<\/p>\n

“And he’s in no mood whatsoever to hang up the boots.”<\/p>\n

It’s understood Manly have every desire to re-sign Taukeiaho as part of the playing group into 2026, even if it’s unclear at this stage whether coach Anthony Seibold<\/a> will survive the off-season.<\/p>\n

Reports suggest he is set to be forced out of the club, with a group of players potentially leading the charge.<\/p>\n

Taukeiaho isn’t the only player Manly are yet to make a decision on for 2026, with Gordon Chan Kum Tong<\/a>, Dean Matterson<\/a>, Aaron Schoupp<\/a>, Tommy Talau<\/a> and Raymond Tuaimalo Vaega<\/a> also currently off-contract.<\/p>\n

The club will lose Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a>, as well as Toafofa Sipley and Jazz Tevaga<\/a>, while they have confirmed the signature of Jamal Fogarty<\/a> to take over from Cherry-Evans in the number seven jumper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Sea Eagles forward Siosiua Taukeiaho is set to make the most of a strong first year back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-81172","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\/81172","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=81172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}