All people hates the Sea Eagles, however not as a lot as Manly hates Manly

The Manly Sea Eagles boast a uniquely strong vanity, primarily as a result of it’s virtually solely nourished by the very fact they’re as standard as BO in a spacesuit.

However whereas not the primary membership in footy to brighten a siege mentality, does it rely if you’re beneath siege from your self?

Name it self-hate, bush governance and even only a tribute to the works of John Hopoate, however this membership loves being a ache in its personal bottom – and 2025 has been no completely different.

Whether or not it was the skipper being off the board, the previous gamers being off the administration, the present gamers being off the coach or the proprietor being off the reservation, the Peninsular membership has endured one other yr of political infighting so spiteful that it’ll quickly sue itself in federal courtroom and get dissolved just like the outdated Soviet Union.

Add the unthinkable bungling of the Tom Trbojevic deal this week and it’s not possible to disclaim the outdated adage: Everybody hates Manly, particularly Manly.

Why can’t this joint cease uppercutting itself? Is it some kinda guilt-induced behaviour for comfort-eating the Bears?

Whereas the Trbojevic subject was seemingly only a case of miscommunication, what kinda sadistic administration would do something to even threat upsetting a treasured membership bloodline just like the Turbos?

Sure, the celebrity fullback is so typically injured lately that usually the one “coronary heart and soul” presence he’s lately supplied is in cap house.

And whereas the reported $300,000 lowball was apparently only a misunderstood element of a back-ended deal, the info are this: No one was stunned after they heard Bambi was about to be robbed and dumped exterior the abattoir and it concerned Manly.

Had another administration shonked a membership servant in such trend as reported – particularly in the identical period it willfully paid Josh Schuster a tsar’s bevy – there would’ve been a back-page mutiny.

However not when it’s the Sea Eagles.

Anthony Seibold and Michael Ennis throughout a Manly Sea Eagles coaching session. (Photograph by Matt King/Getty Pictures)

That’s as a result of membership royalty is taken into account an insignificant matter for this political ants nest the place it’s no huge deal to see a spot of regicide most days earlier than morning tea.

Each membership has its wrinkles and its factions, however Manly’s civil warfare is completely different gravy.

An organisation the place self-hate is a move state, the Peninsular membership is a footy membership the place the superstars truly work in HR, and that’s as a result of the political knifing is as acquainted and dependable as a Stewart brother and virtually as equally celebrated.

Whether or not it’s the painfully public administrative fallouts, the leaks, the atrociously dealt with Pleasure Jersey saga and even simply the suite of family-related spats, you might be relaxation assured the Sea Eagles most likely began it.

However even in comparison with the membership’s glory years when it was within the cycle of its bi-annual authorized disputes with Des Hasler, this season has been an actual doozy.

Manly began the season by botching the Daly Cherry-Evans deal, with the skipper decoupling from the membership in a messy divorce that unfolded stay on nationwide TV throughout two rival packages.

This was adopted by the gamers leaking their grievances about Anthony Seibold’s strategies, with the coach’s inside processes starting from scathing private dossiers to seven-minute participant interviews being ventilated within the information day by day.

Daly Cherry-Evans (Photograph by Brett Hemmings/Getty Pictures)

Add the outdated boys agitating for Seibold to get replaced – led by Anthony Watmough, a dyed within the wool Manly man as a result of he’s all the time placing crap on folks on the membership – and it’s no marvel the membership’s burnt by six CEOs in eight years.

There was a time when Manly was a watertight powerhouse that dealt in nothing however premierships and stealing Magpies, however ever since Bob Fulton departed no one’s certain who’s working the birdhouse.

However whether or not it’s Tony Mestrov, Scott Penn, Peter Mild or Isaac Moses, one factor we are able to all agree on is you’d seemingly get steadier route out of the membership legend’s ghost – if somebody didn’t white-ant him beforehand.

So the place does this all finish for the as soon as mighty powerhouse?

Both they return to their glory days of shopping for premierships, or just shut down all football-related operations and rebrand as one among Gordon Ramsay’s kitchens purely in an try to enhance employees morale.