{"id":152316,"date":"2025-11-25T04:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152316\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:28:05","slug":"three-way-race-breaks-out-for-garrick-as-sea-eagles-revise-offer-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152316\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-way race breaks out for Garrick as Sea Eagles revise offer &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> will reportedly increase their offer in a bid to retain goal-kicking outside back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/reuben-garrick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuben Garrick<\/a> beyond the end of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>Garrick is off-contract at the end of 2026, and has been able to negotiate with rival clubs since November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Able to play centre, wing or fullback, Manly are understandably desperate to retain the star, but their initial offer was understood to have been knocked back.<\/p>\n<p>That offer, believed to be worth around $550,000 per year, is understood to be under market value, with Garrick now attracting the interest of both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/sydney-roosters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Roosters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> per a News Corp report.<\/p>\n<p>While Manly will go back to the negotiation table in an attempt to retain Garrick, the Roosters are believed to be frontrunners for his services.<\/p>\n<p>The tri-colours still have a war chest of money available from high-profile departures in recent years, while they need to secure a replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/mark-nawaqanitawase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a> in 2027 as he heads back to rugby union for a shot at playing in the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>They have also signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/daly-cherry-evans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a>, with it understood the veteran halfback is good mates with Garrick. Cherry-Evans is likely to be on the Roosters&#8217; coaching staff in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>While the Roosters have become the leaders in the race for the star, the Dragons are also believed to be interested.<\/p>\n<p>Garrick was a Dragons junior, leaving the club to seek opportunities at Manly a number of years ago, but could yet be in for a return to his roots in 2027 if the Red V can make a substantial offer.<\/p>\n<p>While the thought process surrounding the joint-venture is that they need forwards, it has become clear in recent days they are more interested in backs to complement their excellent crop of young forwards, with Shane Flanagan&#8217;s side linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/murray-taulagi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Murray Taulagi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jake-averillo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Averillo<\/a> and now Garrick.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/perth-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perth Bears<\/a> have also previously been mentioned as a side who could be in the mix for Garrick as they hit the open market with 30 spots to fill and over $12 million to spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manly Sea Eagles will reportedly increase their offer in a bid to retain goal-kicking outside back Reuben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-152316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}