Manly Sea Eagles odds

Manly-Warringah’s 2018 NRL campaign was dogged from the off, with the club copping hefty fines for salary cap breaches dating back over five years.

Many in the rugby league community felt the Sea Eagles were lucky to avoid a points deduction, but it mattered little as they finished only a game clear of the wooden spoon.

Can mighty Manly bounce back this year? Let’s have a look at their odds for NRL 2019.

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• Manly 2018 premiership betting
  Manly were a constant source of frustration last season. They would look like potential contenders one week and then forget how to defend the next. There is no doubt the Sea Eagles boast quality players in key positions, but they will have to show massive improvement week-to-week if they are to push the likes of Sydney, Melbourne and North Queensland for top honours.
  
• Top 8 betting
  There are several factors that might prevent Manly from matching last year’s sixth-place finish. One is a salary cap fiasco that could see them start the season on negative points. Another is a lack of depth beyond their best 13. The Sea Eagles will surprise plenty if they finish above the likes of St George Illawarra and South Sydney.
  
• Dally M Medal betting
  Daly Cherry-Evans inherits the captain’s armband following the retirement of Brookvale stalwart Jamie Lyon. He is the star man in the middle and a good chance to finish at the top end of the Dally M count if he stays on the park.
  
• Top tryscorer betting
  Tom Trbojevic is the obvious threat in the Manly back half. However, playing mostly at fullback in a mid-table team means the talented 21-year-old will probably have to do something extra special to outscore the likes of Suliasi Vunivalu and Jordan Rapana this year.
  

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Sea Eagles players to watch in 2018

Daly Cherry-Evans
Born: 20/2/1989
Games: 172
Tries: 45
Position: Halfback

This is a big year for Cherry-Evans. Apart from taking on the captaincy, the Redcliffe-born playmaker has a huge opportunity to reignite his State of Origin career now that both Cooper Cronk and Johnathan Thurston have retired from representative footy. A healthy, happy DCE is vital to Manly’s prospects in 2018.

Tom Trbojevic
Born: 2/10/1996
Games: 55
Tries: 30
Position: Fullback

Trbojevic the younger is the driving force in Manly’s back row. Whether at fullback or on either flank, his long stride and clean hands make him tough to defend when the service is there. He will be looking forward to a big season after missing a significant chunk of 2017 with a medial ligament injury.

Jake Trbojevic
Born: 18/2/1994
Games: 71
Tries: 16
Position: Lock

Andrew Johns had this to say after one of Manly’s trial games: “Jake’s timing of his pass and his understanding of when to pass is as good as any halfback in the game.” There is a case for saying the elder of the ‘Turbo Bros’ is every bit as important as Cherry-Evans, who benefits hugely from his star lock’s marshalling of the forwards.

Manly Sea Eagles records and stats

• Player records
  Most games: 309 – Cliff Lyons
  Most career points: 1917 – Graham Eadie
  Most points in a season: 257 – Matthew Ridge (1995)
  Most career tries: 163 – Brett Stewart
  Most tries in a season: 27 – Phil Blake (1983)
  
• Team records
  Most consecutive wins: 15 (1995)
  Most consecutive losses: Eight (1950 and 1998-99)
  Biggest winning margin: 70-7 (vs. Panthers, 1973)
  Biggest losing margin: 6-68 (vs. Sharks, 2005)
  Largest home attendance: 104,583 (vs. Knights at Stadium Australia, 1999)
  
• Sea Eagles history
  It did not take long for the Manly-Warringah Rugby League Football Club to make its mark on the top grade. Having poached a number of North Sydney Bears players upon joining the NSWRL in 1947, the Sea Eagles were in their first grand final only four years later. They lost to South Sydney on that occasion – a recurring theme over the next two decades.

  Manly reached the big dance five times in 25 years until breaking through in 1972 with a 19-14 win over Eastern Suburbs. That opened the floodgates for further premierships in ’73, ’76 and ’78 as the Eagles became a bona fide powerhouse of the competition.

  The 1980s were notable for back-to-back grand final defeats to Parramatta and a fifth top-grade flag in ’87 – the last GF ever played at the SCG. The club dominated during the Super League wars of the 1990s, yet three consecutive grand finals produced only a single premiership.

  Following the example set by Wests Tigers and the St George Illawarra Dragons in the early years of the NRL, the Sea Eagles merged with the Bears in 1999 to form the Northern Eagles. That partnership lasted only two seasons, with Norths folding and Manly-Warringah returning as a standalone operation in 2003.
  

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