An absolute legend and will be sorely missed. The good news is that we will only have to face him twice a season.

Hopefully more, cup runs, play-offs.

Wrooooong.

Loving the KR fans desperately trying to come up with something to deflect the downward spiral of their club.

Here's a prediction you wont bite on. You'll miss Manu more then us missing Galea.
Manu is class, how many of you would retain him rather then have Ellis?

I personally would not be surprised if Manu is 2013 Man of Steel.... In fact I might have a few quid on it....

Fantastic player and has been a pleasure to watch especially over the last two years, in a sick way it will be a great to watch manu n Ellis go toe to toe if they are against each other .
Im really gonna miss watching him play and good luck to the man next year .
I think were using the word LEGEND and ive got to agree

I would sooner retain him, however it was not meant to be so I could not think of a better player to fill the void than Gareth Ellis, proven world class player

Gareth Ellis has, and does play at a level far grater than Manu.

Manu's a massive loss, nobody like him in the league except Hock (maybe). His abilities are irreplaceable, but as I've said before our style of play can minimise the impact. There's been an over reliance on Manu over the last few years to provide a spark for us and teams have doubled up on him and tired him out in defence leaving us toothless.

I get that, it'll be interesting how Ellis settles back into the amatuer game compared to NRL. Manu for me was the best offloading forward in the league.

Nah, we signed that guy from you earlier in the season.

Dont disagree. Will bite on though!

As a Saints fan, I have to say I was sceptical when we signed a 33 year old, but having watched him since and especially last night I have to take it back. There are going to be some bruises dished out with him, Soliola and Puletua in the same back row, it's a mouth watering prospect.

Best of luck for the rest of the play offs, unless you play us of course!

You've got a great player there, Smurf. Such a shame we made you sign Turner as a punishment for taking Manu.

Willie manu is THE BEST back rower in superleague and will be a loss but judging by the signing of ellis then i'm sure he's been replaced like for like.

We tried to keep Manu at same time we signed G Ellis ! Now that would have been some back row !

My thought is that Manu will have an injury keeping him out for 3 months - not wished for , just a hunch due to age and injury free run he has had