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“I was wrong”: Cooper Johns says no division, no schism in Manly camp

Sea Eagles five-eighth Cooper Johns watched the ‘Manly Seven’ saga in the middle of 2022 like most everyone else: from the outside looking in and making his own assumptions.

Schisms, divisions, where there’s smoke there must be (hell) fire, right?

Yet since being signed on a one-year, train-and-replacement contract in November – which led to tidy trial form and in turn to his club debut at 4 Pines Park last Saturday in the 31-6 win over Canterbury Bulldogs – Johns told the Beaches Champion that he’s been proven wrong. FULL STORY >>

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