Wow, amazing appointment. NRL officiating turned him into the angriest looking coach ever...wonder what he'll make of Championship refs?

Bringing Beaver as his assistant?

nah bring beaver as a player. even at 108yrs old, or whatever he is these days, he'd still rip it up in championship

I predict that under Toovey we'll show more fight and an organized game plan than we did for big chunks of 2016. Really want to see a mean defence, the main disappointment for me under Rohan was that with his background as a defensive coach in the NRL, ours didn't show any consistent signs of improvement

There was a healthy discussion of Beaver v Tooves amongst Manly fans in the time leading up to Toovey getting the gig. The general consensus (as I recall, at least) was that everyone liked Beaver. And that therefore he was completely unsuitable. They wanted an ex-player (as they always do), but above all they wanted a 2@. And frankly, so do I.

How long till he starts making an impact then? 3-4 games?

For what its worth in my opinion one of the Best coaches in the NRL.Best of luck for next season.

Maybe 6-10. He needs to look at the remaining players, find their best position. Evaluate attitudes especially after the 'honeymoon' period is over. Also needs to see what they are like against varying levels of opposition. Hopefully after this, press on. Should stay up though.

Fingers crossed we stay up. Hopefully we can start winning before 10 games. If not we are up the steam without a paddle.

Going by the new coaches passionate temperament. Someone could have a quiet word about the RFL fines.

Otherwise he might be paying the RFL back £50k all on his own.

It's going to have to be quicker than that with a -12 start. Granted there will be a bedding in process but as I see it we have a friendly against kr on the 5th and then a relegation 4 pointer against Rochdale

Great appointment - Blackpool Hotels to sell out

Swiftly followed by relegation 4 pointers against Swinton
and Toulouse.
Realy wish those 3games were further diwn the line and we started off against HKR Fev and London. Going to be really hard to get things going for the 1st mornth or two and playing the teams we are realistically competeing against is far from ideal .