The Timeline of the 2025 Collapse

[Peter C]

And who was his best man?

Bradman Best

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

2026 season already looks like a write off as well with My Fluff's comments

Winners party and losers look for excuses

Seibold’s job declared safe as Sea Eagles club boss opens up on ‘one of the worst’ seasons​

Manly chairman Scott Penn has guaranteed Anthony Seibold — who he described as a “master student of the game” — will be given more time to turn the Sea Eagles into a premiership force.

All but out of the running to make the finals despite a stunning victory over premiership favourites the Storm in Melbourne last month, the Sea Eagles have been licking their wounds before captain Daly Cherry-Evans’ 350th NRL game milestone on Saturday.

Seibold has had to contend with Cherry-Evans announcing early in the season he wouldn’t be renewing his contract on the northern beaches, a crippling injury toll which has robbed him of forwards Haumole Olakau’atu, Taniela Paseka and Josh Aloiai for long periods, Jake Trbojevic’s concussion-interrupted year and brother Tom searching to find his best form.

The Sea Eagles have crashed to four straight losses since the Storm win, meaning it will be the second time in Seibold’s three years in charge they’ve missed the top eight, barring a mathematical miracle in the last three weeks.

Former NRL Coach of the Year Seibold has already privately indicated to the club he doesn’t want to be a clipboard carrier for the rest of his career, and has interest in transitioning into an executive role. He’s under contract until the end of 2027.

The Sea Eagles have internally discussed Michael Ennis potentially being his successor.

But despite their disappointing campaign so far, Penn has assured Seibold will remain in charge for next season when Raiders No.7 Jamal Fogarty replaces Cherry-Evans in the halves.

“Absolutely (he will),” Penn said. “He’s a master student of the game. He’s got a phenomenal understanding of the game and a phenomenal support crew who back him.

“It’s tough for anyone to go through what we’ve gone through this season. I’ve been here 20 years now and it’s one of the toughest I’ve been involved in. There’s no sugar coating it; it’s been one of the worst with so many different things – and a lot of them have come at the worst possible time.

“We won three of the first four and everything was looking great. But that’s footy. We’re doing the best we can with what we’ve got. Everyone is trying their guts out.

“Seibs, (chief executive) Tony (Mestrov) and I are all in alignment and in constant dialogue, not only about how we can finish this year as strong as possible, but some of the tweaks we can make for ’26 to come out of the blocks strong. That’s what it’s all about.

“There’s no drama behind the scenes.”

There’s been speculation about Cherry-Evans’ future from the minute he announced on live television earlier this year he would not be renewing his Manly contract, leaving the door ajar to finish his career elsewhere in the NRL.

The Roosters have been widely speculated as his destination, but neither Cherry-Evans or the club have confirmed an agreement, only saying they’ve held talks.

Former State of Origin captain Jake Trbojevic is the likely candidate to take over the Manly captaincy, but has had a forgettable season, sitting out again this week after suffering his third concussion of the year in the loss to the Raiders.

“It’s been a tough year for Jake with concussions, but we just wrap our arms around Jake and do what it best for him,” Penn said. “Right now, he’s still dealing with some of the consequences of the last concussion. Our sole focus is to get him healthy.

“I sat down with him a couple of weeks ago and he said, ‘no, I’ll be right. No problem’. That’s exactly what we expected from him. He never wants to retire because he loves the game so much.

“From our point of view, we’re not going to be putting any pressure on him. These are decisions he and his family have to make and we’ll back him 100 per cent.”

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He’s not a smart man, Super Grover:

But the prospective office manager is good at pulling the wool over the eyes of Mr Fluffy* and Tony the Bombthrower.

*You know what it is

 

[Cochrane]

To be honest I don’t give a flying **** about reasons , multi layered reasons, who he blames , who said what blah blah.

All I know , and base my views on , is he was a ****ing disrespectful idiot going on TV like he did and expecting his year to be “ just peachy “.

All he had to say was “ I’ll make an announcement after my final game as to what my future holds “.

Would have gone out a winner & a club legend.

Now most wouldn’t piss on him if he was in fire.

Agree, but I don't think its reasonable that he could wait until the end of this year as this would have still had many questions and scrutiny from fans and media all year, and we know clubs cant wait for someone in an important position as a #7 to decide at the end of year, clubs have a roster to manage. And then be absolutely stunned at the end of the year to find out he's not even staying with manly. Us fans wouldn't have thought that was even going to be a consideration and that he must have been planning that for a while, kinda like a Des to dogs at the end of 2011. So end result may still possibly be Legacy tarnished.

I would have been fine if he'd just come out when he had come to an agreement with another club, in a manly hat, with 1 person from the club and said for his own and family reasons, he has decided to sign with another club for the final 1 or 2 years of his career , talked about his time with Manly positively that would be supported by the attending manly official commending dce, without dce adding underlying tones throwing the club under the bus which was made worse by D Weidler taking manly to task over things DCE did not discuss on air, but had obviously said to him off-air.

Instead he said he will play with anyone but manly, he just wasn't sure where yet. He advised he hadn't received an offer which Manly refute, and obviously wasn't going to even consider an offer from manly and actually declined their offer just days later. Ummm there is a story here cherry, now everyone wants to know what the hell has gone on for this to happen. Oh, and yeah, the bit you said 5 mins ago about leaving on good terms was obvious bull****.

Weidler did dce no favours by kicking manly further after the interview despite dce doing his best to fumble through that he and manly are leaving on good terms.

He was used by D Weidler.

Now Dce is trying to sell that he's a good bloke and not who he is on camera cause he realises that is not the perception of him, and uses the bloke who spoke to him for 10 mins at a pub as an example. Or perhaps then he was better off just being himself all along

We all are what our actions are, and based on that is where people form an opinion.

I couldn't imagine any current captain making the announcement the way dce did and leave the club in defence mode whilst still having 20+ rounds to play.

 

[tookey]

So we are settling for "couldn't be any worse"

Unfortunately that is where we are currently as a club

No longer a destination club just a club for hacks who cannot get a go with any other team