The Manly DNA

No Manly team has ever made it to a GF under a coach who wasn't a Manly player.

O'Connell & Paskins made their debut for Manly as a captain-coach. Pepperell was a pom. Lowe a kiwi.

GF winners: Willey, Stanton, Fulton, Hasler. Apart from these four men other Manly coaches to reach a GF were O'Connell 51, Arko 57/59, Hunter 68, Ritchie 82 & Toovey 2013.

Manly coaches since 1947. The ones who played for Manly are in bold.

JOHNSTON, Harold 1947
STEHR, Ray 1947-48
MULLINS, George - 1949
O'CONNELL, Wally 1950-52
BULL, Roy 1953

NORMAN, Ray 1954
DEVERY, Pat 1955-56
ARTHURSON, Ken 1957-61
WILLEY, Ron 1962
PASKINS, Tony - 1963

PEPPERELL, Russ - 1964-65
O'CONNELL, Wally 1966-67
HUNTER, George 1968-69
WILLEY, Ron 1970-74
STANTON, Frank 1975-79
THOMSON, Allan 1980
RITCHIE, Ray - 1981-82
FULTON, Bob 1983-88
THOMPSON, Alan 1989

LOWE, Graham 1990-92
FULTON, Bob 1993-99
SHARP, Peter 1999, 2003
HASLER, Des 2004-11
TOOVEY, Geoff 2012-15

BARRETT, Trent 2016-18
HASLER, Des 2019-22
SEIBOLD, Anthony 2023-25
 
No Manly team has ever made it to a GF under a coach who wasn't a Manly player
I see several of them came back for a second stint... so maybe Tooves could follow in that tradition? Come back as coaching director or manager? Doubt he'd be up to a head coach role these days but would have a lot to offer in other ways
Oh, just remembered... Penn doesn't like him. Oh well.
 
Does Penn like Kingy ? As i have heard he could replace mestrov at some point.
Can't see him wanting to be a head coach? Doing well in corporate/legal world. Not to say he couldn't do it if he wanted, but he hasn't done any coaching apprenticeship. Future CEO is another matter maybe.

edit - Oh I see you said Mestrov, I thought you meant as coach Doh 🙂
 

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