Season over: so, what did we get from it?

[Carl]

Another year older and deeper in debt.

The good times are further into the past.
We get to go into next season without hope.
At least the LNP has been wiped out.

16 tons and what do you get?

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

High hopes to start, it felt great at Brookie in R1.
DCE on channel 9 suddenly turned things upside down, for me as a fan. You'd like to assume your captain actually loves and wants to be at the club (stupid, I know)
So the rest of it became a bit sad. Some great moments and good wins but felt like always paddling upstream, too many stressful losses.
In the end reality set in - Manly's squad is only about mid level quality, especially in depth. As it's been for so long now.
Fans looking for a magic wand and think a new coach will be our saviour? I wish it was so but my head says 'you gotta be kidding'.

 

[Wombat64]

8 other clubs would love to be us. 8 would definitely not.

It is what it is.

We are a club mired in mediocrity and if anything are on the slide. So with all due respect I would say that no other club would want to be us and have Penn owning / running the joint.

 

[ManlyTragic]

8 other clubs would love to be us. 8 would definitely not.

It is what it is.

Hey! Is that like the glass is half empty or half full ?

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Over without a whimper.

Can’t see 2026 being any different although maybe a half back who at least wants to earn his salary might help.

Two things ****ed our year , the Chasers announcement , and a string of injuries leaving only the plodders left in the forwards.

And once all that unfolded the noticeable lack of the players ( not all players ) giving an actual ****, that’s undoubtedly the worst thing.

 

[DanielTurbo888]

If we belt the Dragons 60 nil we still have some hope

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

If we belt the Dragons 60 nil we still have some hope

That would require players ( all ) turning up to play

NOT HAPPENING

 

[The '47ers]

That would require players ( all ) turning up to play

NOT HAPPENING

And all 17 on the field at the same time

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

And all 17 on the field at the same time

That might help , maybe we can have the mercy rule introduced

 

[Super Coach Eagle]

We finished above Parramatta.

Enjoy it while we can i think they will zoom past us next year

 

[LeonardCohen]

A lots of headaches and a sickness in the stomach....apart from that - how desperately there are needs for reinforcements in the middle (though I think we do need to realise the loss of Paseka and particularly Haumole were Massive) and Simpkin though no world beater, showed the importance of having even a reasonable dummy half

Simpkin’s defence is a real worry though. Opposition middles pick him out and love destroying the middle of our ruck. He’s willing but not all that effective. I prefer his attack to Croker but even that’s limited. He gives decent service and has a dart but I’ve noticed he often gets the ball in attacking positions, and he’ll struggle to make up his mind when he should just pass and he ends up dying with the ball; it’s very frustrating.

I think he’s been really solid but I also don’t think he’s a long term answer.

 

[Andrew..]

The owner is a Karmichael Hunt, but the club will always be bigger than one person.

 

[Rafferty]

We finished above Parramatta.

Enjoy it while we can i think they will zoom past us next year

Never though I’d be envious, but to see them rebuilding, with a coach the boys love and the upside it’s bringing, it’s depressing….