Fun, floggings and Fozball: Manly’s roller-coaster season reviewed

Well, that was weird. After starting the season with three losses, at home at Four Pines Park, the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles shocked rugby league by sacking coach Anthony Seibold, a move that club Chief Executive Jason King told Manly Observer was “very difficult and very well considered” and which was “focused around the team's results and the direction we thought the team was going”. Keiran Foran was appointed interim head coach and the club's direction went diametrically north. It was a dead-cat bounce like few had ever seen. The winning was instant and it was everywhere. There were crushing away victories over Dolphins (52-18), Dragons (28-18) and Cowboys (33-18). They hosted old foes Parramatta and sent them packing, 33-18. They travelled to Leichhardt and flogged...

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