Just Making up the numbers?

[CRPSI eagle]

I’ve cancelled all my travels and holidays for the first weekend of Oct 2025.
If Seibold plays the players who deserve and not him mates or influenced by other players.
We can this, Manly 2025 Premiers !!!

 

[BOZO]

I’ve cancelled all my travels and holidays for the first weekend of Oct 2025.
If Seibold plays the players who deserve and not him mates or influenced by other players.
We can this, Manly 2025 Premiers !!!

Its more of if Seibold lifts his players to overachieve
We can overcome the favorites and Manly will be 2025 Premiers
Does Seibold have it in him ?

 

[CRPSI eagle]

Its more of if Seibold lifts his players to overachieve
We can overcome the favorites and Manly will be 2025 Premiers
Does Seibold have it in him ?

I think it needs to come from the players and I think we have that.

 

[BOZO]

I think it needs to come from the players and I think we have that.

I agree we do have capable players
What we need is for the coach to Inspire the most from the players playing to their optimal potential each week
We also need a smart game plan from the coach

The Moral of the Story ...
The coach plays the music and his players dance
The coach has to find the right Sound in the Dressing Sheds to keep them Staying Alive in the finals and not capitulating like we have been
Get your Boys Up for it Seibold !
We were born to be Alive
We were born to be Alive
Born , Born , Born
Born to be Alive !

This Beat applies to All of Us Today Feathered friends
What ever you do today dont do it Half way
Give it all you got and make it a Super Productive winning day !

 

[Bloke on the hill]

Well given nearly every premiership coach Manly has ever had has been an ex Manly player might be a good place to start. If i couldn't convince any ex Manly players to coach i would try to bring in a coach from super league with a good win ratio.

In terms of players i would be poaching from broncos and Canberra

Just out of interest, is there something about the culture at Manly that Seibold is creating that you're unhappy with?

 

[Bloke on the hill]

Its more of if Seibold lifts his players to overachieve
We can overcome the favorites and Manly will be 2025 Premiers
Does Seibold have it in him ?

There's a team of coaching staff that take care of different areas.
To most supporters the quality of those coaches is an unknown, we can't just point at Seibold for the results (good or bad), there's so many moving parts to consider.

 

[lsz]

Honestly pre season predictions are almost pointless Lets take a look

Experts pick: 2024 top eight and premiership winners

Ahead of the 2024 Telstra Premiership season kicking off in Las Vegas, the NRL.com writers have come up with their predictions for the year ahead.

www.nrl.com

No one predicted the panthers again with most going for the warriors...

 

[Brocky]

I don’t disagree with the thread tittle, most have us as a lock in the 8 and we probably should be, however I have question marks all over us and won’t be at all surprised if we struggle, our pack, our 9, our game speed, game management, the origin period, depth, mental aptitude, fitness, I’ll throw our coach in to boot, no point banging on, we’ll just have to wait and see and hopefully I’m wrong, however I think a lot people on here are very one eyed sometimes, my heart wants Manly premiers 2025, my head on the other hand is very conflicted off the back of genuine concerns.

We will be lucky to finish in the top ten, other teams have bought a lot better, we roughly have the same team
Aging half back and Jake

 

[Ralphie]

So basically what you are saying is sack everyone , the coach , the football department , the players and build from scratch ( poaching not developing ) ???

We need to continue to develop, but mostly we need to stop letting the best players go. For example, we clearly have a forward problem, so why on earth did we let Fonua-Blake go? We did the same back when we let Waeira-Hargeaves go all those years ago. We win easily in 2013 if he is on our team and not Easts team. There is a litany of players we have let go, and yes, I know we can't keep them all, but the main reason for that is our marquee players no longer accept "unders" to stay in the way the great 2008 side did. I get it they have limited time in the game, but DCE started that in 2014 and the Turbos have understandably followed suit. The top sides like the purple filth, Easts, donkeys and even the Riff either have players on "unders" or players on big third-party deals and we simply don't have that.

 

[Rafferty]

We will be lucky to finish in the top ten, other teams have bought a lot better, we roughly have the same team
Aging half back and Jake

I can see us struggling this year, however we are every chance of making the 8, just think a lot has to go our way and I agree, re the make up of our squad.

Watching the Raiders yesterday, they look to have improved a lot, going on that performance alone it’s hard to say they won’t be there, but it’s a long year and depth may be their question mark. Anyway lets see how we go.

 

[LeonardCohen]

I can see us struggling this year, however we are every chance of making the 8, just think a lot has to go our way and I agree, re the make up of our squad.

Watching the Raiders yesterday, they look to have improved a lot, going on that performance alone it’s hard to say they won’t be there, but it’s a long year and depth may be their question mark. Anyway lets see how we go.

I was impressed by the Raiders but they have purple patches every year. I don't think they've got the stamina to produce that sort of thing, week in, week out. It should also be noted that (a) the Warriors were rudderless and (b) Canberra made a number of handling errors off risky offloads and the better sides would have made them pay. It's not a knock on Canberra per se, because they were still great, but it's one game of footy in a very long season.