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• aveel February 28, 2015 at 10:37am

  Manly's facilities at Narrabeen are top notch. They have 2 or 3 fields that they have exclusive use of ie. they get to train on them when they want them. They have sports science equipment that is top notch and their gym/weights room is awesome (I was in there doing some work stuff last year.) Also their offices are in the same precinct.  There is also a 25m indoor pool with several ice baths in an adjoining room. Plus a very good athletics venue if they ever want to work on sprint work.

  There training base and home ground is 5min from the beach. The northern beach's lifestyle is a massive selling point
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    sixtiesboy > aveel February 28, 2015 at 4:00pm

    Of course they have access to good facilities. I stated that they share that training facility. They don't own it. That won't change as it is a government facility. I've taken school groups there for camps and watched Manly train. The players were even using some of the same facilities as we were.
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  Jimmy February 28, 2015 at 10:46am

  Manly's facilities at Narrabeen are good but there are concerns that their medical/rehab team are not up to scratch.  I have been aware of this for some time and I also noted that Foran had raised it in his negotiations with the Manly club.
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  Bean February 28, 2015 at 11:32am

  Parramatta clearly has the brighter future and would be more attractive to most players on the market.
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  Yobz February 28, 2015 at 3:10pm

  I thought Abbott promised to upgrade Brookie before the last election
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    Yobz > Yobz February 28, 2015 at 3:13pm

    http://mobile.news.com.au/national/tony-abbott-repeats-sixyear-fund...
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  sixtiesboy February 28, 2015 at 3:50pm

  I think that their lower grades have been poor for some time. Their success has been built on a very strong core of players with selective value recruits and the occasional talented youngster.. It is the core that is at the end of their time with the club. I expect a borderline 8 finish this year followed by decline from 2016 onwards.
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  sixtiesboy February 28, 2015 at 3:53pm

  Long time coming for $10million! It won't be enough for modern facilities, just a minor facelift.
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    81paling > sixtiesboy March 4, 2015 at 9:58pm

    Council own the ground and don't want an upgrade to it  because on their books it has been completely depreciated. If they allow an upgrade to it then once again every year they will have to depreciate the value of it and that council have a terrible record as they were under administration not to long ago.

    They have tried to give the ground to the State government but they do not want it for the same reason as for the Federal government I do not think they could take control of it without introducing legislation to do so (not 100% sure on that). However the Federal & state governments can promise as much money as they want but it has to get past council.

    Council did a survey on it in 2013 and found that their rate payers felt either neutral or agreed that the ground should be upgraded but, when asked if they would be prepared to pay for it there was an almost 90% response rate of strongly disagree.
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  Ham Sammich February 28, 2015 at 3:57pm

  They have some strong backs coming through but with re-signimg both of their current centres they may lose one. They'll want to hang onto Jesse ramien though. He and Tom T are the ones they'd want to keep.