MANLY have announced the re-signings of exciting brothers Jake and Tom Trbojevic along with fellow young gun Clinton Gutherson.

Off contract at the end of next year, 21-year-old prop Jake and 18-year-old outside back Tom, have committed to stay at Brookvale for the 2017 season.

Outside back Gutherson, who will spend the rest of 2015 on the sideline after suffering a serious knee injury in round one, has also signed on until the end of 2017.

“Manly are a great club and I’m extremely proud to be playing my footy here over the next few seasons,” Jake Trbojevic said.

“Tom and I have grown up in Mona Vale, knowing nothing else than Manly being one of the best teams in the NRL. It’s a privilege to play for our local club.”

media_camera Kane Elgey has re-signed with the Titans.

However the Sea Eagles have missed out on exciting Titans youngster Kane Elgey, who seemed certain to join the club before an 11th-hour change of heart.

Elgey, the 2014 Holden Cup player of the year, was earmarked as a replacement for Daly Cherry-Evans on the penninsual but will now link up with the Australian representative in the halves on the Gold Coast.

Nevertheless, the Trbojevic and Gutherson retentions were a timely boost for Manly who have lost some of the game’s finest talent — Glenn Stewart, Anthony Watmough, Cherry-Evans and Kieran Foran — over the past year.

Jake, 21, was off contract after 2016 and extended for one more year. Tom, 18, will stay at Brookvale until the end of 2017 while Gutherson, 20, will be a Sea Eagle until the end of 2017.

They are all local juniors.

Now the hard work begins for these kids to keep Manly where they have lived for the past decade — on or near the top of the NRL.

“I have spoken to the (Trbojevic) brothers and they want to do the same thing as me — they want to keep the legacy built here and to keep it going for the next 10 years,” said Gutherson.

“We still have a few of the older boys here. We have to learn off them how they did it and what is the best way of doing it. We have to take the baton off them and keep the club going.

“Manly has won for the last ten years. We have to keep that going and keep building on what the senior players have made this club into.”

media_camera Tom Trbojevic scored a double on debut against the Raiders in Albury. Picture Mark Evans.

The two brothers and Gutherson were openly excited at their retention. In fact, they were beaming. Life still goes on at Brookvale, even without some of the big names.

“We want to do the best we can for this club,” Tom said. “The responsibility is on all the players to perform the best they can and hopefully the results can come. Coming up through the Manly ranks, it’s awesome to extend my stay here.”

Manly coach Geoff Toovey spoke of his excitement when drafted into the Sea Eagles first grade side back in 1988.

“My crowning achievement in life was to play first grade for Manly — and I’m sure these boys feel the same,” Toovey said. “It’s a great sign where the club is going and hopefully we can build on this in the near future. The club has been very successful for many years and decades and will continue down that path. I think these three are future representative players.

“It is an exciting time for the club and for them and I look forward to seeing them in the first grade team for many years to come.”