{"id":962741,"date":"2026-11-13T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/962741\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:34:11","slug":"off-contract-sea-eagles-forward-lands-on-rivals-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/962741\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-contract Sea Eagles forward lands on rivals radar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off-contract Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> forward Caleb Navale<\/a> has landed on the radar of the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>, with the Belmore-based outfit keen to add to their forward stocks.<\/p>\n

Navale is rated as one of the best young forward in the game, and the lock could play a big role for Manly throughout 2027.<\/p>\n

One of Fiji’s best during the recent Rugby League<\/a> World Cup, Navale has 12 NRL<\/a> appearances under his belt, but may be further advanced had he not gone through injury issues.<\/p>\n

He played the final three games of 2026 at Manly, all off the bench, but spending big minutes on the park in each, scoring a try against the Newcastle Knights<\/a> in Round 25, making 160 metres against the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> in Round 26, and completing 62 tackles with just 2 missed in Round 27 against the New Zealand Warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ESPN are reporting that the Bulldogs are interested in making a play for Navale, and could well be able to do so under their own salary cap which continues its transformation from year to year.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have lock as one of their key problems coming in to 2027, with the club having a handful of options, but on the lookout for upgrades given Bailey Hayward<\/a> is now viewed as a dummy half, and Kurt Mann<\/a>, who wasn’t offered a new deal at the end of 2026, has moved on to the Wests Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Navale would certainly answer the problems in the number 13 jumper for the Bulldogs, although it’s believed Manly are in talks with Navale and desperate to retain him.<\/p>\n

Manly’s salary cap is tight, and will be worse if they get a deal for Tom Trbojevic<\/a> over the line, and in a sign they are looking to rejig things, the club have also been linked with letting both Luke Brooks<\/a> and Jamal Fogarty<\/a> go in recent times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-contract Manly Sea Eagles forward Caleb Navale has landed on the radar of the Canterbury Bulldogs, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-962741","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\/962741","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=962741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}