States on Manly Twitter page that both have received their visas late last night, Friday morning Aus time. https://twitter.com/manlyseaeagles Possibility they could be here for Sunday, would you play them if they were? Even with jet lag and not had a training session with the rest of the squad.

States on Manly Twitter page that both have received their visas late last night, Friday morning Aus time. https://twitter.com/manlyseaeagles Possibility they could be here for Sunday, would you play them if they were? Even with jet lag and not had a training session with the rest of the squad.

i dont think they will play on sunday unless they get here by today then maybe coz they could do the captains run tomorrow

Not a chance they will play!! come on be serious, leave them till next week. They won't get here till tomorrow morning will be jet lagged to eff and won't have trained with the team! never gonna happen. Either way thats 3 players arrived or arriving with the space of a few days and we have had enquires after others. Things are happeneing people

i no think more hope they would be able to play and you are right hopefully get a few more soon aswell

I'd be v surprised if they play, that's if they've even arrived by Sunday
As for other players - maybe we can persuade the storm to lend us Cronkite, slater, smith and widdop for a few months after their game against Leeds

How long are their contracts?

Normal A4 length I imagine. Unless they have done a Kerouac! would be odd tho!

Radio Manchester spoke to Liam Foran on the phone before the Leeds game, and said that his was a 3 year deal. Not sure about Vic Mauro

Do we have our first selection issue of the new regime?

Foran will be over and ready for selection, Sneyd with a MOM performance last night, Theo probably fit again by the weekend and McGoldrick looking a lot better last night means that we need to pick two from four and in all likely hood drop/leave out one of the youngsters and leave McGoldrick on the bench as cover.

Foran and Sneyd at half back for me, and I think Murphy's loan deal is up now, so I'd move McGoldrick to fullback. Unfortunately through no fault of his own, Theo to miss out.

Why not Fages or Evalds at 1? With Mcgoldrick at centre or in the back row?

No got to get Evalds in at fullback, looks to have that certain something and you get the feeling that at some point he's going to turn into a top class player along with Sneyd and Theo.

As an aside is Broughton inured? think we saw again last night that Gibson a bit better than many give him credit for and pretty certain if he played more games he'd get a hat full of tries, pity you can only see his chances getting less and less.

Broughton was sick.

Ed Farish CEO stated at Forever Reds meeting tonight that Foran & Mauro won't get their visas until 2am GMT Tuesday so may not be here until Thursday

Well, you can't change a winning team anyhoo, and it would be particularly harsh on Sneyd to not be playing on Friday.

I'd bet that both play on Friday, the club would be foolish to miss such a golden opertunity.

Two big new players, a very winnable home game and a huge win in our last game - the situation really couldn't be any better.

who would you drop for foran and mauro though i dont think they will play on friday imo

Jewitt has been charged with a grade B offence which carries a 1-2 match ban, so Mauro will come in for him. And I think both Rhys Williams and Jack Murphys loan deals have ended now as they were only for a month. So Mcgoldrick can come out of the halves and play either centre or full back.

I think they'll both play.

It's a vital two points on offer, that we need to win. You'd be stupid to have quality players watch from the stands no matter how long they've had with the team.

if they get here thursday they wont play . will theo play aswell ?

Club FB page says they are both in the air and arrive tomorrow afternoon. Think there's a good chance of a spot for both on Friday.

if that is the case then do have a good chance of playing

Couldn't Doctor Kou send the Tardis to pick them up