2020 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season

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2020 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season
NRL Rank13
2020 recordWins: 7; Draws: 0; Losses: 13
Points scoredFor: 375; Against: 509
Team information
CEOStephen Humphreys
CoachAustralia Des Hasler
Assistant coachAustralia John Cartwright
Captain
  • Daly Cherry-Evans
StadiumBrookvale Oval (Lottoland); Central Coast Stadium
Avg. attendance3,414 (Not including home matches away from Brookvale)
High attendance10,315 (vs MEL, round 1, Not including home matches away from Brookvale)
Top scorers
TriesTonga Jorge Taufua (7)
GoalsAustralia Reuben Garrick (41)
PointsAustralia Reuben Garrick (98)
2019 2021 >

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]

Until at least Round Nine, the Sea Eagles will play at Central Coast Stadium in Gosford.[2]

2020 Squad[]

2020 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Top 30 Squad Development Players Coaching Staff

Extended squad

Head coach

Assistant coach


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 colours.svg Newcastle Knights Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles [5]
Morgan Harper Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles [6]

Losses[]

Player 2019 Club 2020 Club Ref
Kane Elgey Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Retirement [7]
Trent Hodkinson Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Retirement [8]
Apisai Koroisau Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Penrith Panthers [9]
Lloyd Perrett Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Wynnum-Manly Seagulls (Intrust Super Cup) [10]
Kelepi Tanginoa Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Wcatscolours.svg Super League: Wakefield Trinity [11]

Ladder[]

Pos Team Pld W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 20 18 1 1 0 537 238 +299 37
2 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm (P) 20 16 0 4 0 534 276 +258 32
3 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 20 15 0 5 0 392 288 +104 30
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 20 14 0 6 0 552 322 +230 28
5 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 20 14 0 6 0 445 317 +128 28
6 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 20 12 0 8 0 521 352 +169 24
7 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 20 11 1 8 0 421 374 +47 23
8 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 20 10 0 10 0 480 480 0 20
9 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 20 9 0 11 0 346 463 −117 18
10 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 20 8 0 12 0 343 458 −115 16
11 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 20 7 0 13 0 440 505 −65 14
12 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 20 7 0 13 0 378 452 −74 14
13 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 20 7 0 13 0 375 509 −134 14
14 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 20 5 0 15 0 368 520 −152 10
15 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 20 3 0 17 0 282 504 −222 6
16 Brisbane colours.svg 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 Sea Eagles colours.svg 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 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 4 – 18 Melbourne colours.svg 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 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg 8 – 9 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 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 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 32 – 6 Canterbury colours.svg 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 Parramatta colours.svg 19 – 16 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 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 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 20 – 18 Brisbane colours.svg 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 Canberra colours.svg 6 – 14 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 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 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 40 – 22 Cronulla colours.svg 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 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 12 – 14 Newcastle colours.svg 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 St. George colours.svg 34 – 4 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, Kogarah  
6:30pm (AEST)
Tries:
Euan Aitken, Matthew Dufty, , 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 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 12 – 14 Parramatta colours.svg 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
Australia Morgan Boyle 2 (5)
Australia Daly Cherry-Evans (c) 20 6 12 1 49
Australia Lachlan Croker 4 (16) 1 4
Australia Cade Cust 8 (2) 3 12
Australia Brendan Elliot 14 (1) 3 12
Tonga Addin Fonua-Blake 14 (1) 3 12
Australia Tevita Funa 12 5 20
Australia Reuben Garrick 17 4 41 98
Australia Jack Gosiewski 3 (10) 6 24
New Zealand Morgan Harper 4 3 12
Australia Albert Hopoate 4 (1)
Australia Sean Keppie 2 (17)
New Zealand Daniel Levi 20 2 8
Australia Abbas Miski 2 (1) 2 8
Australia Haumole Olakau'atu 1 (4) 1 4
Australia Brad Parker 19 4 16
New Zealand Taniela Paseka 5 (13) 3 12
Australia Josh Schuster 1
Australia Curtis Sironen 18 3 12
Tonga Moses Suli 13 2 8
Tonga Jorge Taufua 14 7 28
New Zealand Martin Taupau 16 (2) 2 8
New Zealand Joel Thompson 14 2 8
Australia Jake Trbojevic (vc) 20 2 8
Australia Tom Trbojevic 7 4 16
Australia Corey Waddell 5 (8) 1 8
Australia Dylan Walker 7 1 4
TOTAL 20 67 53 1 375

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