Manly Sea Eagles

The Manly Sea Eagles took a lead into the halftime break against the Canterbury Bulldogs after an “outrageous” decision left the Dogs a man down.

“I cannot believe Kyle Flanagan is in the sin bin for what we saw on Tom Trbojevic. But the Sea Eagles were able to take advantage with just under five minutes of the sin bin remaining as Cherry-Evans scored Manly’s third try to make it 18-6 before Flanagan returned to the match. It sent the Sea Eagles to the break with a 12-6 lead. With the last play of the half, Addo-Carr picked up a pick through the line but when he was tackled, tried to offload and left the ball on the deck. But that was enough to convince the Bunker and while it wasn’t a try, it was as good as because Manly spread it wide on the third tackle and used the over lap for Garrick to put the Sea Eagles ahead 12-6. “Kyle Flanagan was moving backwards in the direction of the ball there,” he said.

The return of superstar Tom Trbojevic and a captain's knock from Daly Cherry-Evans led Manly to a 31-6 win over the Bulldogs at 4 Pines Park on Saturday.

The Bulldogs travel to Melbourne in round two to face the Storm. The Sea Eagles have the bye in round two before a monster Thursday night showdown with Parramatta at 4 Pines Park to open round three. "We definitely made it hard for ourselves and our completions weren't where we needed them to be but I thought we showed a hell of a lot of grit there at different times to defend our tryline and to stay in the contest physically but there's a lot of lessons learned. Trbojevic got his foot to the rolling ball, nudged it into the in-goal and grounded it for the 79th try of his career and his first since round four last year. - Bulldogs winger Jacob Kiraz came off for a HIA in the 30th minute. Cooper Johns chased and looked to have touched down first but replays showed Bulldogs prop Max King had scrambled back to ground the ball in a massive play.

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldog's Jersey Flegg has started the year on a winning note after taking down the Manly Sea Eagles 36-24 at 4 Pines Park on ...

Manly Sea Eagles 24 (Tries: Kylan Mafoa, Joshua Russell, Cameron Brown, Kylan Mafoa and James Uesele ;Goals: Harradyn Wilson, Cameron Brown) Sea Eagles Match: Sea Eagles v Bulldogs

The Anthony Seibold era at Manly got off to a brilliant start thanks to a Daly Cherry-Evans hat-trick in a thumping win over the Bulldogs.

Cherry-Evans then did well early in the second half when he again grubbered for himself and somehow shouldered Josh Addo-Carr out of the way. He later quipped: “I knew I would have lost that [race] and didn’t want to embarrass myself. But Trbojevic looked back in-field and wanted to pass, leaving the chance for supporters to see him in full flight for another day. He helped lay on the first try for Trbojevic when he grubbered through, only for “Turbo” to keep the ball alive on his boot to score. “To have Chez back on the park today, it was great. He replaced Des Hasler over summer and worked overtime on bringing the playing group together.

A full house at 4 Pines Park saw Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles kick off the season in style with victory over the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.

All three tries were scored by Daly Cherry-Evans as he completed his first career hat-trick in a man of the match performance. Reed Mahoney struck back for the visitors, regathering his kick from dummy half after it hit the uprights to score under the posts. This forced the club to rethink their top 30 squad through a lack of prop forwards, resulting in Bailey Biondi-Odo being delisted as they search for Thompson’s replacement.

Cameron Ciraldo will never forget his first match as a full-time first grade coach — but unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.

“We’re going to be better every week but today there were things we didn’t do well and that’s unacceptable for us moving forward.” Instead he gets the ball out to Kikau to get it away and they turn it over. “I thought we showed a real lot of grit there at times. “Our completions weren’t where we needed them to be and where we gave them the ball wasn’t where we planned to. “Matt Burton’s got the longest boot in the competition, it was his chance to stand up and drive it down the field and they can just cop their medicine. With the influx of new troops, it was always going to take a little time for the combinations to gel but star five-eighth Matt Burton was off his game in the season-opener.

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Tom Trbojevic's return to the NRL has gone off without a hitch, helping lead the Sea Eagles to a massive victory over the Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon.

“It was just cramping – I took him off because the had the cramp, but he ended up coming back on. I just wanted to get on the field and get it over with. “We wanted to build our game in this early part of the season on our D, and I felt as though today we defended our try line well. A couple of times we scrambled when they put some grubber kick through. It makes the bye [next week] even better." "It was disappointing to end the year early last year and I had a six-month break over the off-season.