Sammut or Manese?

Who do we keep?

I'd love for them both to stay if possible but if one has to go, who would you rather keep at this stage?

Manase for me. Purely because he comes with a Ryan Bailey firmly located in his pocket.

(TMFMISL! pah!)

Going by the fact that Scruton is struggling with injury and there don't seem to be many props around I'd keep Nas. That said I rate Sammut and we need cover at halfback if Jeffries and Gale are injured or out of form.

Can't choose yet tbh.

I'm more swayed to Manese, he brings that aggression that gets the team riled up. Only Elima had that last season and it was to much for him to carry on his own. This season we've seen the team become a lot more aggressive and I think it's down to what these two do.

Sammut is good, but BJ has carried the play making responsibilty IMO thus far, and I think a Gale and BJ partnership could be just as if not more fruitful.

Need to see what Gale can offer us first.

Im swaying towards manase at moment. not many british props about so difficult to replace. sammuts good but think we should be able to replace him from within although it would probably mean keeping jeffries an extra year to give likes of elliot,aitchison,windley etc time to develop

I don't see the need to think about this until quite a bit later in the season

Originally I was thinking Sammut. I figured there was enough graft in the side to cover the prop shortage and the possibility of Langley moving there and Addy getting more time at 13, and also that finding a good running stand off has been a problem for some time.

I'm back to undecided now though.

I put this on the squad page too.


Let Sibbit, Walker, Briggs, maybe Phil Joseph go for next year. And hopefully get Sykes and PLatt off the roster and we should have some decent room on the salary cap. Plus the young forwards will all be a year further developed. Finances aside, the playing side of things are beggining to look quite rosey IMO.

Surely it will depend on who is available at the end of the season in terms of recruitment. It would be a mistake to let Sammut leave if there were no replacements available at stand off likewise letting Manase leave would leave the front row light for next season if a decent replacement could not be brought in.

What the club needs to do is ensure we are not left with a large hole in our squad at either stand off or prop as a result of either player leaving.

Try get Sammut on a Maltese passprt? Or is this not allowed? Or get Manuokafoa on a Tongan passport?