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[Cochrane]

Thought we might have had a few more qld players too, but I ran out at 8

 

[The Wheel]

Genuine question.

If season ticket holders dont attend, those seats will be empty but the ground could conceivably be sold out no?

That’s correct - if ticketed members don’t attend the club counts them still pre game as attending. Otherwise they would risk being over capacity on game day.

When I was involved on members council from memory on average around a third of ticket holders didn’t front on game day.

NB members do have the option of returning their tix to the pool if they can’t attend - and getting a refund of sorts if they do.

 

[The Who]

That’s correct - if ticketed members don’t attend the club counts them still pre game as attending. Otherwise they would risk being over capacity on game day.

When I was involved on members council from memory on average around a third of ticket holders didn’t front on game day.

NB members do have the option of returning their tix to the pool if they can’t attend - and getting a refund of sorts if they do.

Thanks for the information.
Does this mean on a day pouring with rain, say, that the 3,000-odd hearty spectators that turn up would be counted as a crowd of 12,000?
What is the official capacity of Brookie these days, and who makes this assessment?
I was among the crowd of 26,000-odd at least a couple of times in the 1970s and 80s. I can't remember any crowd issues although everyone on the Hill was standing.

 

[Chunkytuna]

Thanks for the information.
Does this mean on a day pouring with rain, say, that the 3,000-odd hearty spectators that turn up would be counted as a crowd of 12,000?
What is the official capacity of Brookie these days, and who makes this assessment?
I was among the crowd of 26,000-odd at least a couple of times in the 1970s and 80s. I can't remember any crowd issues although everyone on the Hill was standing.

I believe the crowd figure given on the day is based on the number of people through the turnstiles not on the number of tickets sold or memberships held. Unfortunately the capacity is nowhere near the old days of 26000 (which was great fun). The new stand reduces the capacity as does crowd control rules etc. I think it’s around 19k nowadays but I’ll stand corrected if someone knows for sure.

 

[Sheikheagle]

I believe the crowd figure given on the day is based on the number of people through the turnstiles not on the number of tickets sold or memberships held. Unfortunately the capacity is nowhere near the old days of 26000 (which was great fun). The new stand reduces the capacity as does crowd control rules etc. I think it’s around 19k nowadays but I’ll stand corrected if someone knows for sure.

Yep i too have been there when there were 26,000. 19,000 would be absolutely capacity these days.

 

[lsz]

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When is that list from?

Considering the Dolphins have the hammer how are they on zero?

If wiki is correct then Soufs have 19 NSW players

List of South Sydney Rabbitohs players - Wikipedia

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And again back to wiki it is saying something pretty different for us.

38 – Les Boyd, Ray Brown, Jamie Buhrer, Mark Carroll, Noel Cleal, Phil Daley, Graham Eadie, Geoff Gerard, David Gillespie, Craig Hancock, Des Hasler, Terry Hill, John Hopoate, William Hopoate, Ben Kennedy, Jason King, Brent Kite, Nik Kosef, Max Krilich, Jamie Lyon, Cliff Lyons, Steve Martin, Steve Menzies, Michael O'Connor, Haumole Olakau'atu, Ian Roberts, Jim Serdaris, Phil Sigsworth, Brett Stewart, Glenn Stewart, Alan Thompson, Geoff Toovey, Jake Trbojevic, Tom Trbojevic, Dylan Walker, Anthony Watmough, David Williams and Tony Williams.

In fact this list is a complete load of you know what....

 

[47MVEagle]

I believe the crowd figure given on the day is based on the number of people through the turnstiles not on the number of tickets sold or memberships held. Unfortunately the capacity is nowhere near the old days of 26000 (which was great fun). The new stand reduces the capacity as does crowd control rules etc. I think it’s around 19k nowadays but I’ll stand corrected if someone knows for sure.

Yeah the capacity of the hill has been slashed ever since they introduced those corridors on each side.

Someone said they're for safety, so people can get out easily if there's any sort of disaster, but they have those sections fenced off by the corridors, so you have to make your way to the opening in the fence to access those corridors anyway. I can't see a sell out crowd easily/quickly getting out of there if they ever need to.

 

[lsz]

Thought we might have had a few more qld players too, but I ran out at 8

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16 – Matt Ballin, Steven Bell, Martin Bella, Kerry Boustead, Dave Brown, Daly Cherry-Evans, Chris Close, Owen Cunningham, Paul McCabe, Danny Moore, Nate Myles, John Ribot, Dale Shearer, Neil Tierney, Paul Vautin and Bruce Walker.

List of Manly Warringah Sea Eagles honours - Wikipedia

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[Nordburg]

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People were commenting and saying it’s wrong.
But then people saying it might be debuted club only

Must be debut club because I can recall off the top of my head,Kaufusi and Hamiso at least,playing Origin from the Dolphins

 

[SeaEagleSI1]

Well done Manly 🦅

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[SeaEagleRock8]

Well done Manly 🦅

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That is brilliant! Plenty in the modern professional game can be a little hard to cop but stuff like this brings it back into perspective. Great work all round

 

[Thewestisbest]

That is brilliant! Plenty in the modern professional game can be a little hard to cop but stuff like this brings it back into perspective. Great work all round

So good.

 

[The Wheel]

Well done Manly 🦅

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Huge effort

 

[globaleagle]

That is brilliant! Plenty in the modern professional game can be a little hard to cop but stuff like this brings it back into perspective. Great work all round

Yes... I used to wait for someone to do that for me, being 10,000 miles away.

But then I was reliably informed the world operates only for beautiful women and young children.

lol

Kidding (well actually someone did tell me that)

But a very heartwarming story. Well done everyone~!

 

[master blaster]

Huge effort

That brought a tear to my eye, well done Manly and good on you SJ and Jurbo for taking the time out for this young man, the Manly Spirit lives on

 

[The '47ers]

Hollywood icons become owners of Aussie sports team

‘This is an incredible milestone for us and for our sport.’

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FFS Hugh get him into the NRL

 

[Frogz]

This is in todays telecr@p. I would be extremely disappointed in the club if this was true.....

Manly has been accused of disrespecting club legend Malcolm Reilly in the aftermath of Thursday night’s golden-point loss to the Newcastle Knights.
Shattered Sea Eagles players walked straight to the dressing sheds after blowing a 16-0 halftime lead instead of taking part in the presentation for the Malcolm Reilly Challenge Trophy.

The two clubs have played for the trophy since 2007 to honour the legendary Manly forward and Knights premiership winning coach.

It has been an annual tradition since 2007.

On Thursday night Manly players were back in the sheds by the time Knights skipper Kalyn Ponga accepted the trophy on behalf of the club.

Sea Eagles chief executive Tony Mestrov put it down to a miscommunication in that his football department was not informed before the game that the presentation would take place.

This excuse didn’t go down well with the Knights.

Especially as it has been a practice for both sides to remain on the field for the last 18 years.

And that Manly had actually promoted the fact on social media that the teams were playing for the trophy.

It was there on gameday morning in black and white on the Manly website saying: “His (Reilly’s) son Glen, who will present the trophy to the winning team on Thursday night, says his father is in good spirits.”

We can understand the disappointment of Manly’s players but it’s no excuse.

Reilly’s son, who lives in Newcastle, presents the trophy after each game.

We spoke to him on Saturday morning about the situation.

“No comment - I don’t want to say anything detrimental about Manly in the press,” he said.

Malcolm Reilly is still recovering from a cancer scare that required surgery in England earlier this year.

 

[madmax]

This is in todays telecr@p. I would be extremely disappointed in the club if this was true.....

Manly has been accused of disrespecting club legend Malcolm Reilly in the aftermath of Thursday night’s golden-point loss to the Newcastle Knights.
Shattered Sea Eagles players walked straight to the dressing sheds after blowing a 16-0 halftime lead instead of taking part in the presentation for the Malcolm Reilly Challenge Trophy.

The two clubs have played for the trophy since 2007 to honour the legendary Manly forward and Knights premiership winning coach.

It has been an annual tradition since 2007.

On Thursday night Manly players were back in the sheds by the time Knights skipper Kalyn Ponga accepted the trophy on behalf of the club.

Sea Eagles chief executive Tony Mestrov put it down to a miscommunication in that his football department was not informed before the game that the presentation would take place.

This excuse didn’t go down well with the Knights.

Especially as it has been a practice for both sides to remain on the field for the last 18 years.

And that Manly had actually promoted the fact on social media that the teams were playing for the trophy.

It was there on gameday morning in black and white on the Manly website saying: “His (Reilly’s) son Glen, who will present the trophy to the winning team on Thursday night, says his father is in good spirits.”

We can understand the disappointment of Manly’s players but it’s no excuse.

Reilly’s son, who lives in Newcastle, presents the trophy after each game.

We spoke to him on Saturday morning about the situation.

“No comment - I don’t want to say anything detrimental about Manly in the press,” he said.

Malcolm Reilly is still recovering from a cancer scare that required surgery in England earlier this year.

WOW….that is astonishing news. OMG let’s get the whip out! Let’s start a petition to have the boys fined or dropped for next weeks game. We need to start a separate thread! Can’t believe this is a headline! What a fu<king joke from the Telecrap!

 

[Frogz]

WOW….that is astonishing news. OMG let’s get the whip out! Let’s start a petition to have the boys fined or dropped for next weeks game. We need to start a separate thread! Can’t believe this is a headline! What a fu<king joke from the Telecrap!

You don't think its a bit disrespectful at all....