2020 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season

2020 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season
2020 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season
NRL Rank	13
2020 record	Wins: 7; draws: 0; losses: 13
Points scored	For: 375; against: 509
Team information
CEO	Stephen Humphreys
Coach	Des Hasler
Assistant coach	John Cartwright
Captain	Daly Cherry-Evans;
Stadium	Brookvale Oval (Lottoland); Central Coast Stadium
Avg. attendance	3,414 (Not including home matches away from Brookvale)
High attendance	10,315 (vs MEL, round 1, Not including home matches away from Brookvale)
Top scorers
Tries	Jorge Taufua (7)
Goals	Reuben Garrick (41)
Points	Reuben Garrick (98)

The 2020 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 71st in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. After twenty rounds, the team finished 13th on the NRL Ladder.

COVID-19 Pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NRL matches were halted after the second round. The Sea Eagles were originally meant to play the New Zealand Warriors and Canberra Raiders in Rounds Three and Four, but the NRL announced an updated draw for those rounds on 15 May that gave the Sea Eagles fixtures against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Parramatta Eels in those rounds.^[1]

The Sea Eagles played home games at Central Coast Stadium until the end of round seven where they then returned back to Brookvale.^[2]

2020 Squad

2020 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Top 30 Squad						Development Players		Coaching Staff
Morgan Boyle – PR, SR Daly Cherry-Evans (gk) (c) – HB Lachlan Croker – FE, HK, HB Cade Cust – FE, HK, HB Brendan Elliot – FB, WG, CE Manase Fainu – HK Addin Fonua-Blake – PR Tevita Funa – FB, WG, CE Reuben Garrick (gk) – WG, FB Jack Gosiewski – SR		Albert Hopoate – WG, FB Sean Keppie – SR, PR, LF Luke Metcalf – HB Brayden Musgrove – WG, CE Brad Parker – CE, WG Haumole Olakau'atu – SR Taniela Paseka – PR Josh Schuster – SR, FE Toafofoa Sipley – PR Curtis Sironen – SR		Sam Smith – CE Moses Suli – CE, WG Jorge Taufua – WG Martin Taupau – PR Joel Thompson – SR Jake Trbojevic (vc) – LF, PR Tom Trbojevic – FB, WG, CE Corey Waddell – SR, LF Dylan Walker (gk) – CE, FE, FB Tony Williams – SR, CE		Jade Anderson – FB, WG Abbas Miski – WG Zac Saddler – SR Keith Titmuss – SR Ben Trbojevic – SR Extended squad Morgan Harper (gk) – CE		Head coach Des Hasler Assistant coach John Cartwright Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s) Updated: 7 November 2019 Source(s): ^[3]^[4]

Signings/Transfers

Gains

Player	2019 Club	2020 Club	Ref
Danny Levi	Newcastle Knights	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	^[5]
Morgan Harper	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	^[6]

Losses

Player	2019 Club	2020 Club	Ref
Kane Elgey	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Retirement	^[7]
Trent Hodkinson	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Retirement	^[8]
Apisai Koroisau	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Penrith Panthers	^[9]
Lloyd Perrett	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Wynnum-Manly Seagulls (Intrust Super Cup)	^[10]
Kelepi Tanginoa	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Super League: Wakefield Trinity	^[11]

Ladder

2020 NRL season v t e
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Penrith Panthers	20	18	1	1	0	537	238	+299	37
2	Melbourne Storm (P)	20	16	0	4	0	534	276	+258	32
3	Parramatta Eels	20	15	0	5	0	392	288	+104	30
4	Sydney Roosters	20	14	0	6	0	552	322	+230	28
5	Canberra Raiders	20	14	0	6	0	445	317	+128	28
6	South Sydney Rabbitohs	20	12	0	8	0	521	352	+169	24
7	Newcastle Knights	20	11	1	8	0	421	374	+47	23
8	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	20	10	0	10	0	480	480	0	20
9	Gold Coast Titans	20	9	0	11	0	346	463	−117	18
10	New Zealand Warriors	20	8	0	12	0	343	458	−115	16
11	Wests Tigers	20	7	0	13	0	440	505	−65	14
12	St. George Illawarra Dragons	20	7	0	13	0	378	452	−74	14
13	Manly Warringah Sea Eagles	20	7	0	13	0	375	509	−134	14
14	North Queensland Cowboys	20	5	0	15	0	368	520	−152	10
15	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	20	3	0	17	0	282	504	−222	6
16	Brisbane Broncos	20	3	0	17	0	268	624	−356	6

Ladder progression

Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	0	2	4	4	6	8	8	8	8	10	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	14	14	14

Fixtures

Regular season

Sunday 15 March	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	4 – 18	Melbourne Storm	Lottoland, Brookvale
4:05pm (AEST)	Tries: Goals: Reuben Garrick (2/2)	^[12]	Tries: Suliasi Vunivalu (2), Tom Eisenhuth Goals: Cameron Smith (3/4)	Attendance: 10,315 Referee: Matt Cecchin, Jon Stone

Saturday 21 March	Sydney Roosters	8 – 9	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Leichhardt Oval, Leichhardt
5:30pm (AEST)	Tries: Daniel Tupou Goals: Kyle Flanagan (2/3) (FG) (0/1)	^[13]	Tries: Tom Trbojevic Goals: Reuben Garrick (2/3), Daly Cherry-Evans (FG) (1/1)	Attendance: 0 (Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic) Referee: Ben Cummins, Belinda Sharpe

Sunday 31 May	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	32 – 6	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
6:30pm (AEST)	Tries: Tom Trbojevic (2), Brad Parker (2), Jorge Taufua, Curtis Sironen, Reuben Garrick Goals: Reuben Garrick (2/7)	^[14]	Tries: Jake Averillobr/> Goals: Nick Meaney (1/1)	Attendance: 0 (Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic) Referee: Matt Cecchin

Saturday 6 June	Parramatta Eels	19 – 16	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Bankwest Stadium, Parramatta
5:30pm (AEST)	Tries: Michael Jennings, Dylan Brown, Kane Evans Goals: Mitchell Moses (3/4), Mitchell Moses (FG) (1/1)	^[15]	Tries: Jorge Taufua (2), Dylan Walker Goals: Reuben Garrick (2/4)	Attendance: 0 (Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic) Referee: Ben Cummins

Sunday 11 June	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	20 – 18	Brisbane Broncos	Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
7:50pm (AEST)	Tries: Tevita Funa, Daly Cherry-Evans, Moses Suli Goals: Reuben Garrick (4/5)	^[16]	Tries: Kotoni Staggs, Xavier Coates, Darius Boyd Goals: Jamayne Isaako (3/3)	Attendance: 166 Referee: Ashley Klein

Sunday 21 June	Canberra Raiders	6 – 14	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Campbelltown Stadium, Campbelltown
4:05pm (AEST)	Tries: Elliott Whitehead Goals: Jarrod Croker (1/1)	^[17]	Tries: Tom Trbojevic, Tevita Funa Goals: Reuben Garrick (3/3)	Attendance: 0 (Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic) Referee: Grant Atkins

Sunday 28 June	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	40 – 22	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
4:05pm (AEST)	Tries: Tevita Funa, Addin Fonua-Blake (2), Tevita Funa Goals: Reuben Garrick (3/5)	^[18]	Tries: Braden Hamlin-Uele, Sione Katoa (2), Jesse Ramien, Josh Dugan, Bryson Goodwin, Blayke Brailey Goals: Shaun Johnson (6/7)	Attendance: 178 Referee: Adam Gee

Sunday 5 July	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	12 – 14	Newcastle Knights	Lottoland, Brookvale
4:05pm (AEST)	Tries: Daly Cherry-Evans, Cade Cust Goals: Reuben Garrick (2/2)	^[19]	Tries: Kurt Mann, Andrew McCullough Goals: Kalyn Ponga (3/3)	Attendance: 2,271 Referee: Grant Atkins

Sunday, July 12	St. George Illawarra Dragons	34 – 4	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, Kogarah
6:30pm (AEST)	Tries: Euan Aitken, Matthew Dufty, Josh Kerr, Zac Lomax, Corey Norman, Mikaele Ravalawa Goals: Zac Lomax (5/7)	^[20]	Tries: Joel Thompson Goals: Reuben Garrick (0/1)	Attendance: 1,571 Referee: Matt Cecchin

Saturday, 18 July	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	12 – 14	Parramatta Eels	Lottoland, Brookvale
7:35pm (AEST)	Tries: Daly Cherry-Evans, Danny Levi, Martin Taupau, Joel Thompson Goals: Reuben Garrick (3/4)	^[21]	Tries: Michael Jennings (2), Waqa Blake, George Jennings Goals: Clinton Gutherson (1/3)	Attendance: 2,021 Referee: Ashley Klein

Player statistics

Note: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.

Player	Games (sub)	Tries	Goals	FG	Points
Morgan Boyle	2 (5)
Daly Cherry-Evans (c)	20	6	12	1	49
Lachlan Croker	4 (16)	1			4
Cade Cust	8 (2)	3			12
Brendan Elliot	14 (1)	3			12
Addin Fonua-Blake	14 (1)	3			12
Tevita Funa	12	5			20
Reuben Garrick	17	4	41		98
Jack Gosiewski	3 (10)	6			24
Morgan Harper	4	3		12
Albert Hopoate	4 (1)
Sean Keppie	2 (17)
Daniel Levi	20	2			8
Abbas Miski	2 (1)	2			8
Haumole Olakau'atu	1 (4)	1			4
Brad Parker	19	4			16
Taniela Paseka	5 (13)	3			12
Josh Schuster	1
Curtis Sironen	18	3			12
Moses Suli	13	2			8
Jorge Taufua	14	7			28
Martin Taupau	16 (2)	2			8
Joel Thompson	14	2			8
Jake Trbojevic (vc)	20	2			8
Tom Trbojevic	7	4			16
Corey Waddell	5 (8)	1			8
Dylan Walker	7	1			4
TOTAL	20	67	53	1	375

References

^ "Draw". National Rugby League. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
^ "NRL announce venues for matches". National Rugby League. 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
^ "NRL 2020: Every club's full 30-man roster and development squad". Sporting News. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
^ "Sea Eagles Top 30 squad for 2020". Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
^ "Danny Levi joins Manly Sea Eagles from Newcastle Knights". www.sportingnews.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
^ "Manly Sea Eagles sign Morgan Harper, release Sam Smith". Sporting News. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
^ "NRL 2019: Manly Sea Eagles Kane Elgey retires from rugby league". Fox Sports. 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
^ "Hodkinson retires: Injuries force Manly half to hang up boots". National Rugby League. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
^ "Koroisau signs with Panthers on three-year deal". National Rugby League. 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
^ "New Recruit: Lloyd Perrett – Wynnum Manly Seagulls". Retrieved 2020-04-05.
^ "Kelepi Tanginoa signs with English Super League club Wakefield Trinity". www.sportingnews.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
^ "Skilful Storm kick clear of Sea Eagles in slugfest". www.nrl.com. March 15, 2020.
^ McDonald, Margie (March 21, 2020). "Cherry-Evans field goal leaves Roosters winless". www.nrl.com.
^ McDonald, Margie (May 31, 2020). "Tommy Turbo powers Sea Eagles to win over Bulldogs". www.nrl.com.
^ Walsh, Dan (June 6, 2020). "Controversial call decides Parra-Manly's '80s thriller". www.nrl.com.
^ Kennedy, Chris (June 11, 2020). "DCE and Turbo star as Manly fight back to beat Brisbane". www.nrl.com.
^ Walter, Brad (June 21, 2020). "Turbo hamstrung as injury-hit Sea Eagles claw past Raiders". www.nrl.com.
^ Whittaker, Troy (June 28, 2020). "Key trio unlock Sharks' feeding frenzy against Sea Eagles". www.nrl.com.
^ "Fonua-Blake sent off as Knights edge Sea Eagles in contentious thriller". www.nrl.com. July 5, 2020.
^ Whittaker, Troy (July 12, 2020). "Hunt pulls strings as Dragons overpower Sea Eagles". www.nrl.com.
^ "First-half blitz sets up Sea Eagles win over sloppy Eels". www.nrl.com. July 18, 2020.

[1] "Draw". National Rugby League. Retrieved 2020-05-19.

[2] "NRL announce venues for matches". National Rugby League. 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2020-05-19.

[3] "NRL 2020: Every club's full 30-man roster and development squad". Sporting News. Retrieved 2021-09-15.

[4] "Sea Eagles Top 30 squad for 2020". Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. Retrieved 2021-09-15.

[5] "Danny Levi joins Manly Sea Eagles from Newcastle Knights". www.sportingnews.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[6] "Manly Sea Eagles sign Morgan Harper, release Sam Smith". Sporting News. Retrieved 2021-09-15.

[7] "NRL 2019: Manly Sea Eagles Kane Elgey retires from rugby league". Fox Sports. 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[8] "Hodkinson retires: Injuries force Manly half to hang up boots". National Rugby League. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[9] "Koroisau signs with Panthers on three-year deal". National Rugby League. 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[10] "New Recruit: Lloyd Perrett – Wynnum Manly Seagulls". Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[11] "Kelepi Tanginoa signs with English Super League club Wakefield Trinity". www.sportingnews.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[12] "Skilful Storm kick clear of Sea Eagles in slugfest". www.nrl.com. March 15, 2020.

[13] McDonald, Margie (March 21, 2020). "Cherry-Evans field goal leaves Roosters winless". www.nrl.com.

[14] McDonald, Margie (May 31, 2020). "Tommy Turbo powers Sea Eagles to win over Bulldogs". www.nrl.com.

[15] Walsh, Dan (June 6, 2020). "Controversial call decides Parra-Manly's '80s thriller". www.nrl.com.

[16] Kennedy, Chris (June 11, 2020). "DCE and Turbo star as Manly fight back to beat Brisbane". www.nrl.com.

[17] Walter, Brad (June 21, 2020). "Turbo hamstrung as injury-hit Sea Eagles claw past Raiders". www.nrl.com.

[18] Whittaker, Troy (June 28, 2020). "Key trio unlock Sharks' feeding frenzy against Sea Eagles". www.nrl.com.

[19] "Fonua-Blake sent off as Knights edge Sea Eagles in contentious thriller". www.nrl.com. July 5, 2020.

[20] Whittaker, Troy (July 12, 2020). "Hunt pulls strings as Dragons overpower Sea Eagles". www.nrl.com.

[21] "First-half blitz sets up Sea Eagles win over sloppy Eels". www.nrl.com. July 18, 2020.

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v t e Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
Est. 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales
The Club	History (Northern Eagles) Records Players Coaches
Culture	Rivalry with Melbourne Storm (Battle of Brookvale) Manly Seabirds
Home ground	Brookvale Oval
Important figures	Roy Bull Ken Arthurson Rex Mossop Frank Stanton Fred Jones Bob Fulton Ron Willey Mal Reilly Graham Eadie Max Krilich Terry Randall Paul Vautin Des Hasler Cliff Lyons Geoff Toovey Steve Menzies Stewart brothers Jamie Lyon Daly Cherry-Evans Trbojevic brothers
League	NSWRL ARL NRL
Titles	Premierships (8) 1972 1973 1976 1978 1987 1996 2008 2011 World Club Challenges (1) 2009
Seasons (71)	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Other competitions	Current S. G. Ball Cup Harold Matthews Cup New South Wales Cup NRL Nines Past National Youth Competition Amco Cup Jersey Flegg Cup World Sevens
Affiliations	Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles Manly-Warringah/North Sydney District Rugby League