What's the Buzz: Player threat to sue Manly Sea Eagles Anthony Watmough and Steve Matai take a breather at Sea Eagles training. MANLY are facing an uncertain future and legal action from at least eight players if they are accused by ASADA of doing something wrong. To make matters worse, there is no certainty that majority share-holder and one of Australia's richest men Rick Penn will be there to bail the club out. The Sunday Telegraph understands Penn is considering selling his shares in the club because of his strained relationship with part-owners Quantum. Current players George Rose, Steve Matai, Richard Fa'aoso, Ben Farrar, Brett Stewart and Anthony Watmough have been asked to attend ASADA interviews. Penrith's Dean Whare and Parramatta's Darcy Lussick - both former Eagles - will also be questioned in relation to their playing days at Brookvale. The eight players are adamant they have done nothing wrong. Coach Geoff Toovey and his predecessor and now Canterbury coach Des Hasler will also be interviewed. The players have already been briefed by lawyers about potential outcomes of the club-initiated supplements program. The request to interview beefy prop Rose has at least provided some light banter at Brookvale. Of all the players in the NRL, he would be the last you would think would need any supplement to increase an already massive frame. Any threat of legal action would place enormous pressure on Manly's finances. Despite the team's successes in recent years, the Sea Eagles have been flat-out making an annual profit. The only thing that was working in their favour is the personal wealth of part-owner Penn. Sources have revealed Penn has decided to sell his shares if the right buyer emerges, although he would stay with the club if Quantum got out. Young Jack Bryant with one of his Sharks heroes, Beau Ryan. JACK Bryant is an eight-year-old who suffers from dwarfism. He's also a Cronulla Sharks tragic. Can you imagine the excitement when his dad took him to training on Friday. Jack's favourite player, Paul Gallen, presented him with this new Freedom Wheels bike - made by the volunteers at TAD Disability Services. The bikes are custom built for children with disabilities. THE moment he heard of the tragic death of jockey Simone Montgomerie, Melbourne Storm's champion fullback Billy Slater was on the phone to TVN personality Richard Callander. A former jockey himself, Slater offered to give money or his time for a fundraiser to support Simone's family. "It was typical Billy," Callander said. He's always offering to help those who need it. FIVE months after being released from jail, former NRL star Danny Wicks couldn't be happier. He recently became engaged to long-time friend Leona Dundon, the lady he first met 10 years ago. "I've always liked Leona but she refused to go out with a football player," he laughed. The couple have moved in together on the north coast in Yamba with Leona's daughter Chelsea and plan to get married early next year. The 27-year-old is also back in the workforce as manager of the magnificent Pacific Hotel, overlooking Yamba Beach. BEFORE the independent commission came into power, the NRL employed a staff of only 60 and they got the job done. The wage bill has since trebled and they now have 140 full-time employees under the direction of $1.5 million-a-year CEO Dave Smith. At great cost, they are even building an extra floor on League Central to accommodate all the bodies. Two senior management positions are also still to be filled. And what's been achieved - lower crowds, lower TV ratings, a biff ban and 100 per cent ticket-price increases for the grand final. Our game is officially in crisis. Mel McLaughlin is leaving Fox Sports. CHANNEL 10 has stolen stunning Fox Sports presenter Mel McLaughlin to work on Big Bash cricket and their new morning news show alongside Ita Buttrose and Joey Hildebrand. Mel has been a popular, soccer/netball/news presenter since joining Fox Sports in her first media role. She will also be working alongside another poor Parramatta Eels tragic, sports journo Adam Hawse. It must have been a tough call for Mel because she's a real soccer girl and lifelong Man U fan. RUGBY union needs all the help it can get as rival codes threaten to drive the game into a post-Lions downturn. Last thing the Rah Rahs could afford was to lose long-time marketing and media guru Peter Jenkins, who left ARU headquarters on Friday. Expect an announcement on where he lands in the next couple of weeks. No prizes for guessing it will be a role of significance given what he's achieved with the leather-patch brigade. KOOKABURRA Kids is a fantastic foundation supporting children living in families affected by mental illness. Their major fundraiser is a lunch on August 23 at Doltone House, Pyrmont. The stars attending include Laurie Daley, Paul Roos and Premier Barry O'Farrell. Seven's Chris Bath will be MC. Book online www.kookaburrakids.org.au or contact Julie on 0404894946. They need our help. OUR favourite ad man and all-round good guy John Singleton picked up the tab for Graham Arnold's 50th birthday at the Rag and Famish Hotel in North Sydney last Saturday. Singo couldn't attend on the night, but he phoned the pub and insisted on paying because "Arnie has done more for the Central Coast in three years than anyone else." STARTING next week, The Sunday Telegraph and Channel 9's Wide World of Sports will profile a number of Australia's top sporting dads to help find the Philips Sports Dad of the Year. The dad with most votes will win $5000 to donate to his charity. Readers have the chance to win the Philips Ultimate Father's Day Grooming Pack valued at $5000. Go online and vote and, in 25 words or less, let us know why you think your chosen sports dad should be the Philips Sports Dad of the Year. Voting and competition lines will not be open until next Sunday, so don't forget to log on to sportsdads.com.au. Voting ends on August 27. The winner will be announced on Father's Day, September 1. THE tragic loss of Darwin jockey Simone Montgomery in a race fall last week has left a beautiful five-year-old girl without a mum. In a wonderful show of support, many of Australia's leading jockeys have been donating their riding fees all week. Donations can be made to the bank account BSB 035302 ACCT 418752. THE Wests Tigers' treatment of first-year NRL coach Mick Potter. Surely he deserves another crack in 2014 with potentially the best young roster in the game. This Tigers board should do us all a favour and sack themselves. THE Roosters are flying on the field, but the front-office friction between football boss Brian Canavan and chief operating officer Ted Hellier is the talk of rugby league circles. SHARKS prop Andrew Fifita and twin brother David working the aisles of Caringbah Woolies on Tuesday - with two skateboards in the front of the trolley. A NUMBER of NRL clubs and players have already discussed pulling out of the proposed Nines tournament in February. They are not happy about a private promoter making so much money out of the event when the tournament could have been managed by the NRL and its staff of 140. VETERAN player agent Wayne Beavis insists superstar fullback Jarryd Hayne has not asked for a release from Parramatta for the final two years of his contract. Beavis did reveal: "Jarryd's been asking a lot questions about what's been going on out there." LOOKS like league is heading for a big marketing shake up. Long-serving NRL executive Paul Kind was stripped of marketing responsibilities and left with commercial duties in the first round of the ARLC restructure, but we're hearing the appointment of a new marketing chief is imminent. Not many of the current marketing team are optimistic about their chances of surviving the new order. IT'S not every day you get the opportunity to stand in for a rugby league immortal. Your columnist joined 2GB's Continuous Call team as stand-in vice-captain Saturday, filling in for Bozo Fulton while he is in Hawaii. Someone had to keep the Big Marn under control.