What has changed with Manly for it to get like this?
It is without a doubt the management / ownership. They for all the good they may be doing have taken a club with a small but passionate supporter base and zapped the passion out of it. We used to know our role, to be hated and not to care, to love our rouges and idols the same. With new ownership came a new Manly where the fans have been ever increasingly kept in the dark and fed sh1t. We are just an afterthought at best to the owners. Except for being aggressively harassed for membership fees what communication do we get from the club? How are we included?
We are left to ourselves and a group of passionate people with no direction and leadership must before long start getting stir crazy and in fighting. Our fights on here are because of our similarities not our differences.
There is an easy solution to all of this and it starts with engaging the fans honestly, regularly and appreciatively from the CEO down.