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2023 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season

Rugby league team season

2023 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Season
Pre-Season Challenge champions
NRL Rank	12th
Play-off result	DNQ
2023 record	Wins: 11; draws: 1; losses: 12
Team information
CEO	Tony Mestrov
Coach	Anthony Seibold
Captain	Daly Cherry-Evans
Stadium	Brookvale Oval (4 Pines Park) (18,000)
Avg. attendance	13,650 (not including home matches away from Brookvale)
High attendance	17,385 (Round 18 v SYD) not including home matches away from Brookvale
Low attendance	10,102 (Round 24 v PEN) not including home matches away from Brookvale
Top scorers
Tries	Jason Saab (14)
Points	Reuben Garrick (174)
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The 2023 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 74th in the club's history since their entry to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in 1947. The coach was Anthony Seibold taking over from Des Hasler. Daly Cherry-Evans captained the club for the seventh consecutive year. The Sea Eagles won the inaugural pre-season challenge.

Des Hasler Situation[edit]

As a result of not making the finals in 2022, a requirement under Des Hasler's contract, his contract would not able to automatically extend to the end of 2024. Initially the situation started out with a change in assistant coaches with Chad Randall and Michael Monaghan leaving the club. It upset Hasler, but after meetings everything was reported that everyone was happy before reports came out that Hasler would coach the club until the end of 2024, with a succession plan in place, which put the club in unrest. ^[1]

A month later in October 2022, Des Hasler announced he threatened to sue Manly over the Manly pride jersey player boycott, as he believed that it derailed the season as a result of how there was little communication given between the playing group, coaching staff and the management about what was going on.^[2] By then Manly powerbrokers already identified Anthony Seibold as a potential successor to Hasler,^[3] with Hasler identifying Josh Hannay as his preferred successor.^[2] Emails were also leaked between Manly officials involving the pride jersey. ^[4] It was then reported that if he is to coach Manly in 2023, he would have no say in recruitment/retention, accept Seibold as his successor and accept that 2023 would be his last year. ^[5]

On the 13th of October 2022, Hasler was sacked from the club. ^[6] On the 8th of November 2022, Seibold was officially announced as the head coach for the Sea Eagles. ^[7]

2023 Squad[edit]

Transfers[edit]

Gains

Player	Club	Until	Source
Jake Arthur (gained mid-season)	Parramatta Eels	2024	[8]
Ben Condon	North QLD Cowboys	2025	[9]
Austin Dias	Wests Tigers	TBC	[10]
Cooper Johns	Melbourne Storm	2023	[11]
Matthew Lodge (gained mid-season)	Sydney Roosters	2023	[12]
Kelma Tuilagi	Wests Tigers	2025	[13]
Aaron Woods (gained mid-season)	St. George Illawarra Dragons	2023	[14]

Losses

Player	Club	Until	Source
Andrew Davey	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	2024	[15]
Sione Fainu (left mid 2022)	Wests Tigers	2024	[16]
Kieran Foran	Gold Coast Titans	2024	[17]
Jorge Taufua (left mid 2022)	Wakefield Trinity	2023	[18]
Martin Taupau	Brisbane Broncos	2023	[19]
Dylan Walker	New Zealand Warriors	2025	[20]

Re-Signed: Josh Aloiai (2025), Daly Cherry-Evans (2025), Toluta'u Koula (2024), Karl Lawton (2024), Ben Trbojevic (2024), Kaeo Weekes (2023)

Results[edit]

2023 NRL season v t e
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Penrith Panthers (P)	24	18	0	6	3	645	312	+333	42
2	Brisbane Broncos	24	18	0	6	3	639	425	+214	42
3	Melbourne Storm	24	16	0	8	3	627	459	+168	38
4	New Zealand Warriors	24	16	0	8	3	572	448	+124	38
5	Newcastle Knights	24	14	1	9	3	626	451	+175	35
6	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	24	14	0	10	3	619	497	+122	34
7	Sydney Roosters	24	13	0	11	3	472	496	−24	32
8	Canberra Raiders	24	13	0	11	3	486	623	−137	32
9	South Sydney Rabbitohs	24	12	0	12	3	564	505	+59	30
10	Parramatta Eels	24	12	0	12	3	587	574	+13	30
11	North Queensland Cowboys	24	12	0	12	3	546	542	+4	30
12	Manly Warringah Sea Eagles	24	11	1	12	3	545	539	+6	29
13	Dolphins	24	9	0	15	3	520	631	−111	24
14	Gold Coast Titans	24	9	0	15	3	527	653	−126	24
15	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	24	7	0	17	3	438	769	−331	20
16	St. George Illawarra Dragons	24	5	0	19	3	474	673	−199	16
17	Wests Tigers	24	4	0	20	3	385	675	−290	14

Pre-Season Challenge

Source: ^[21]

Regular Season

Source: ^[22]

Representative Players[edit]

• Daly Cherry-Evans ( Queensland, Prime Minister's XIII, Australia)
• Gordon Chan Kum Tong ( Samoa)
• Austin Dias ( Māori All Stars)
• Latu Fainu ( New South Wales U19's)
• Samuela Fainu ( New South Wales U19's)
• Morgan Harper ( Māori All Stars)
• Tolu Koula ( Tonga)
• Haumole Olakau'atu ( Tonga)
• Jake Trbojevic ( New South Wales, Prime Minister's XIII, Australia)
• Tom Trbojevic ( New South Wales)

Milestones[edit]

Daly Cherry-Evans played his 300th game for the club against the St. George Illawarra Dragons on the 29th of July 2023. He has played all of his games for the club. ^[23] For Manly he scored 83 tries, 158 goals and 26 field goals. He was part of the 2011 Grand Final team. He has played in nine series for Queensland in state of origin, being the captain in 2019. He has made 18 appearances for the Kangaroos and played in both the 2013 and 2021 world cups. He also played for Australia at the 2019 RLWC 9s.

In that same game Lachlan Croker played his 100th game of NRL, playing all but one for the club. ^[24] Before his 100th he had scored 16 tries and played games across both the hooker and five-eighth positions.

In Round 27 on the final home game for the season Jake Trbojevic played his 200th game for the Sea Eagles against the Wests Tigers playing all of his matches for the club. ^[25] Before his 200th, he had scored 31 tries for the club. Trbojevic played 16 games for New South Wales in state of origin playing in every series from 2017. He has also made 12 appearances for the Kangaroos which included the 2017 and 2021 world cups.

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