Manly manager Des Hasler wouldn't springiness excessively overmuch distant successful his post-game property league connected Friday night, but helium did uncover the Sea Eagles are successful the process of re-signing born-again prima Dylan Walker.
Walker scored a superb runaway effort successful the 2nd fractional to stick the footwear into the Roosters successful a 42-6 semi-finals flogging successful Mackay to publication a day with South Sydney adjacent week.
He's won an NRL premiership astatine centre, and transitioned into a five-eighth aft arriving astatine Brookvale, but has been thrown into a caller relation by Hasler this season.
Walker has been coming disconnected the seat to play arsenic a ball-playing lock, adding a caller magnitude to the Sea Eagles onslaught arsenic they complaint towards an improbable title.
The 26-year-old, though, remains uncontracted beyond this play and truthful volition technically beryllium unemployed travel November 1 unless helium signs a caller woody successful the meantime.
Walker extends Manly's large lead
The manager was asked astir Walker's declaration concern post-game.
"We're successful negotiations," Hasler said.
"He played good tonight, playing his 100th crippled for the club.
"He's adapted truly well, he's conscionable a existent footballer, Dylan. He plays a batch of positions, helium plays successful the middle, helium gives america that existent bully mediate work and he's got large experience."
Hasler wasn't excessively talkative contempt booking his broadside a preliminary finals spot by thrashing 1 of the NRL's large modern clubs.
Turbo slices done Roosters
He was asked whether helium plans, if Walker stays astatine the club, to support successful the No.14 relation adjacent year.
"He's been playing it for the past six oregon 7 weeks... helium volition beryllium playing it moving forward," Hasler said.
"He's got that inferior worth astir him."
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