{"id":436471,"date":"2026-05-20T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:44:08","slug":"jake-trbojevic-makes-career-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436471\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Trbojevic makes career call"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> have confirmed Jake Trbojevic<\/a> will play on, with the forward re-signing for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

The middle forward was off-contract at the end of 2026, and was weighing up whether he would play on.<\/p>\n

He recently brought up his 250th game in the NRL<\/a>, but it’s no secret he has struggled with concussion issues in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old will now likely spend one final season with the Northern Beaches club before calling it a career, although if he stays fit, the temptation of reaching 300 games in 2028 would exist.<\/p>\n

Trbojevic said the turnaround in form for the club had been enjoyable, and that things were looking good at Manly.<\/p>\n

“I’m loving my footy and I love this club,” Trbojevic said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past few weeks have been really enjoyable and our turnaround in form has been great for the whole club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love playing under Foz and with this amazing group of players. I’m really happy to confirm that I’m locked in for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trbojevic has found a new lease on life under coach Kieran Foran<\/a>, with the former Origin level middle forward increasing his work rate and productivity.<\/p>\n

Manly, who have won five of their last six games, have no intentions of needing to change what’s happening at lock as a result, and Foran said he and the playing group were thrilled to have Trbojevic locked in.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s playing some really good footy, the boys love playing with him, so this is great news for the Club,\u201d Foran said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he’s done an amazing job in Tom’s absence as captain, both on and off the field.<\/p>\n

“Jake is everything that is good about this club, he is Manly through and through.”<\/p>\n

Manly only have Nathan Brown<\/a>, Aaron Schoupp<\/a> and Siosiua Taukeiaho<\/a> who remain off-contract at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manly Sea Eagles have confirmed Jake Trbojevic will play on, with the forward re-signing for the 2027…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-436471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436471","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=436471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}