Berkeley_Eagle
Current Status: 24/7 Manly Fan
<p> RUGBY league's greatest coach Jack Gibson always said winning premierships started in the front office - he was right.
The terrible behaviour and allegations against Manly players Brett Stewart and Anthony Watmough splashed across the front page of today's newspaper comes in the wake of a boardroom brawl and a public spat between two multi-millionaire owners.
And now it's spilt over into the playing ranks at a club regarded as the most disciplined and well-run in the game. This should be a time of celebration for Manly. Their grand final win was incredible, last week they won the World Club Challenge in England and were rated perhaps the greatest team in the club's long and proud history.
But the Sea Eagles are disintegrating. Instead of being the NRL's flagship team, they are the Titanic - and they are headed straight for the iceberg.</p>
<a href="http://www.silvertails.net/news/Sea-Eagles/eagles-legacy-lies-in-shreds.html">Read the full article</a>
The terrible behaviour and allegations against Manly players Brett Stewart and Anthony Watmough splashed across the front page of today's newspaper comes in the wake of a boardroom brawl and a public spat between two multi-millionaire owners.
And now it's spilt over into the playing ranks at a club regarded as the most disciplined and well-run in the game. This should be a time of celebration for Manly. Their grand final win was incredible, last week they won the World Club Challenge in England and were rated perhaps the greatest team in the club's long and proud history.
But the Sea Eagles are disintegrating. Instead of being the NRL's flagship team, they are the Titanic - and they are headed straight for the iceberg.</p>
<a href="http://www.silvertails.net/news/Sea-Eagles/eagles-legacy-lies-in-shreds.html">Read the full article</a>