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1996 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season

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1996 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season
ARL champions
ARL Rank1st
1996 recordWins: 21; losses: 4
Points scoredFor: 609; against: 213
Team information
CoachAustralia Bob Fulton
Captains
StadiumBrookvale Oval
Top scorers
TriesAustralia Steve Menzies (20)
GoalsAustralia Matthew Ridge (68)
PointsAustralia Matthew Ridge (165)
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The 1996 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 50th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947.

The 1996 Sea Eagles were coached by triple Manly premiership player and 1987 Premiership winning coach Bob Fulton. Captaining the side was local junior, halfback Geoff Toovey. The club competed in the Australian Rugby League's 1996 Premiership season and played its home games at the 27,000 capacity Brookvale Oval.[1]

Ladder

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 22 18 0 4 549 191 +358 36
2 Brisbane Broncos 21 17 0 4 607 263 +344 34
3 North Sydney Bears 22 15 2 5 598 325 +273 32
4 Sydney City Roosters 22 15 1 6 521 321 +200 31
5 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 21 14 2 5 399 268 +131 30
6 Canberra Raiders 21 13 1 7 538 384 +154 27
7 St. George Dragons 21 12 1 8 443 360 +83 27
8 Western Suburbs Magpies 22 12 1 9 394 434 −40 25
9 Newcastle Knights 21 10 1 10 416 388 +28 23
10 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 21 11 0 10 375 378 −3 22
11 Auckland Warriors 21 10 0 11 412 427 −15 22
12 Sydney Tigers 22 11 0 11 319 459 −140 22
13 Parramatta Eels 21 9 1 11 404 415 −11 21
14 Illawarra Steelers 22 8 0 14 403 444 −41 16
15 Penrith Panthers 21 7 1 13 363 464 −101 15
16 Western Reds 21 6 1 14 313 420 −107 13
17 North Queensland Cowboys 21 6 0 15 288 643 −355 12
18 Gold Coast Chargers 22 5 1 16 359 521 −162 11
19 South Sydney Rabbitohs 22 5 1 16 314 634 −320 11
20 South Queensland Crushers 21 3 0 18 220 496 −276 8

Regular season

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Sunday 24 March Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 44 – 6 South Sydney Rabbitohs Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Steve Menzies (4), Craig Innes, Jack Elsegood, Shannon Nevin
Goals:
Jack Elsegood (4/5)
Shannon Nevin (2/3)
[2]
Tries:
Paul Mellor
Goals:
Craig Field (1/1)

Attendance: 6,532
Referee: David Manson

Sunday 31 March Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 36 – 22 Gold Coast Chargers Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Daniel Gartner (2), Owen Cunningham, Jack Elsegood, John Hopoate, Craig Innes, Steve Menzies
Goals:
Shannon Nevin (3/4)
Jack Elsegood (1/3)
[3]
Tries:
Shane Kenward (2), Kris Currie, Gavin Whittaker
Goals:
Brendan Hurst (3/4)

Attendance: 5,895
Referee: Neil Almond

Sunday 7 April North Sydney Bears 20 – 10 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles North Sydney Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Brett Dallas, Greg Florimo, Ben Ikin
Goals:
Jason Taylor (4/4)
[4]
Tries:
Steve Menzies, Danny Moore
Goals:
Shannon Nevin (1/1)

Attendance: 21,379
Referee: David Manson

Sunday 14 April Gold Coast Chargers 6 – 10 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Carrara Oval, Gold Coast
Tries:
Jamie Goddard
Goals:
Lee Oudenryn (1/1)
[5]
Tries:
Cliff Lyons, Steve Menzies
Goals:
Shannon Nevin (1/3)

Attendance: 10,643
Referee: Matt Hewitt

Friday 19 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 22 – 10 Auckland Warriors Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Jack Elsegood, Terry Hill, Craig Innes, Steve Menzies
Goals:
Des Hasler (1/2)
Craig Innes (1/2)
Shannon Nevin (1/1)
[6]
Tries:
Phil Blake, Gene Ngamu
Goals:
Gene Ngamu (1/2)

Attendance: 18,588
Referee: Kelvin Jeffes

Sunday 28 April South Queensland Crushers 6 – 14 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Suncorp-Metway Stadium, Brisbane
Tries:
Craig Weston
Goals:
Clinton Schifcofske (1/3)
[7]
Tries:
Steve Menzies, Shannon Nevin
Goals:
Shannon Nevin (3/3)

Attendance: 15,202
Referee: Neil Almond

Sunday 5 May Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 46 – 4 North Queensland Cowboys Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Danny Moore (3), John Hopoate (2), Mark Carroll, Jack Elsegood, Nik Kosef, Shannon Nevin
Goals:
Shannon Nevin (5/9)
[8]
Tries:
Steve Edmed
Goals:

Attendance: 5,227
Referee: Tony Maksoud

Friday 10 May St. George Dragons 2 – 6 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Jubilee Oval, Sydney
Tries:

Goals:
Wayne Bartrim (1/1)
[9]
Tries:
Terry Hill
Goals:
Shannon Nevin (1/2)

Attendance: 13,079
Referee: David Manson

Friday 24 May Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24 – 4 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Des Hasler, John Hopoate, Craig Innes, Danny Moore
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (4/5)
[10]
Tries:
Craig Polla-Mounter
Goals:

Attendance: 14,591
Referee: Kelvin Jeffes

Sunday 9 June Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 28 – 12 Canberra Raiders Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Daniel Gartner (2), Terry Hill, Cliff Lyons
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (6/6)
[11]
Tries:
David Furner, Noa Nadruku
Goals:
Jason Ferris (1/1)
David Furner (1/1)

Attendance: 20,557
Referee: David Manson

Friday 14 June Brisbane Broncos 4 – 18 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles ANZ Stadium, Brisbane
Tries:
Paul Hauff
Goals:
[12]
Tries:
Danny Moore, John Hopoate
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (3/3)

Attendance: 19,837
Referee: Paul McBlane

Friday 21 June Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 29 – 6 North Sydney Bears Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Craig Innes (2), Terry Hill, Steve Menzies, Matthew Ridge
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (4/5)
Field Goals:
Matthew Ridge (1)
[13]
Tries:
Billy Moore
Goals:
Jason Taylor (1/1)

Attendance: 21,217
Referee: Kelvin Jeffes

Sunday 30 June Western Reds 11 – 8 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles WACA Ground, Perth
Tries:
Barrie-Jon Mather
Goals:
Julian O'Neill (3/3)
Field Goals:
Julian O'Neill (1)
[14]
Tries:
Steve Menzies
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (2/2)

Attendance: 6,584
Referee: Mick Lewis

Sunday 7 July Illawarra Steelers 8 – 16 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Steelers Stadium, Wollongong
Tries:
Brett Rodwell, Rod Wishart
Goals:
[15]
Tries:
Owen Cunningham, Jack Elsegood, Geoff Toovey
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (2/3)

Attendance: 9,638
Referee: Matt Hewitt

Sunday 14 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 44 – 0 Parramatta Eels Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Craig Innes (3), Nik Kosef, Cliff Lyons, Danny Moore, Matthew Ridge, Geoff Toovey
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (6/8)
[16]
Tries:

Goals:

Attendance: Graeme West
Referee: 15,021

Monday 22 July Sydney City Roosters 6 – 34 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Tries:
Matt Sing
Goals:
Ivan Cleary (1/1)
[17]
Tries:
Mark Carroll, Daniel Gartner, Terry Hill, Danny Moore, Matthew Ridge
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (7/7)

Attendance: 37,981
Referee: David Manson

Saturday 27 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 28 – 12 Newcastle Knights Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Jack Elsegood, Terry Hill, Steve Menzies, Geoff Toovey
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (6/6)
[18]
Tries:
Matthew Johns (2)
Goals:
Andrew Johns (2/2)

Attendance: 7,228
Referee: Paul McBlane

Monday 5 August Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 12 – 10 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Shark Park, Sydney
Tries:
Adam Dykes, David Peachey
Goals:
Mat Rogers (2/3)
[19]
Tries:
Mark Carroll, Matthew Ridge
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (1/3)

Attendance: 18,270
Referee: David Manson

Sunday 12 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 18 – 0 Sydney Tigers Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Terry Hill, Steve Menzies, Matthew Ridge
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (3/4)
[20]
Tries:

Goals:

Attendance: 8,270
Referee: Kelvin Jeffes

Sunday 18 August Penrith Panthers 18 – 14 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Penrith Football Stadium, Sydney
Tries:
Ned Catic, Craig Gower
Goals:
Ryan Girdler (5/5)
[21]
Tries:
Solomon Haumono, Craig Innes, Nik Kosef
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (1/4)

Attendance: 7,426
Referee: Rob Alexander

Sunday 25 August Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 42 – 12 Western Suburbs Magpies Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Matthew Ridge (2), John Hopoate, Steve Menzies, Danny Moore
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (11/11)
[22]
Tries:
Bill Dunn, Andrew Willis
Goals:
Andrew Leeds (2/2)

Attendance: 14,580
Referee: Kelvin Jeffes

Sunday 1 September South Sydney Rabbitohs 10 – 48 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Tries:
Greg Clarke (2)
Goals:
Shane Wilson (1/2)
[23]
Tries:
John Hopoate (4), Steve Menzies (2), Daniel Gartner, Des Hasler, Danny Moore
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (6/9)

Attendance: 4,317
Referee: Rob Alexander

Finals

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Qualifying Final

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Sunday 8 September Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 16 – 14 Sydney City Roosters Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Tries:
John Hopoate, Craig Innes, Steve Menzies
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (2/4)
[24]
Tries:
Brad Fittler
Goals:
Ivan Cleary (5/5)

Attendance: 31,327
Referee: Paul McBlane

Preliminary Final

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Sunday 22 September Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 24 – 0 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Tries:
Steve Menzies (2), Cliff Lyons, Danny Moore
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (1/2)
Craig Innes (3/3)
[25]
Tries:

Goals:

Attendance: 40,525
Referee: David Manson

Grand Final

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Sunday 29 September
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 20 – 8 St. George Dragons
Tries:
Craig Innes
Danny Moore
Goals:
Matthew Ridge (3/3)
Craig Innes (1/1)
[26]
Tries:
Nick Zisti

Goals:
Wayne Bartrim (2/2)
Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Attendance: 40,985
Referee: David Manson
Player of the Match: Geoff Toovey
Manly-Warringah
St George
FB 1 Matthew Ridge
RW 2 Danny Moore
LC 3 Craig Innes
RC 4 Terry Hill
LW 5 John Hopoate
FE 13 Nik Kosef
HB 7 Geoff Toovey (c)
PR 17 David Gillespie
HK 9 Jim Serdaris
PR 10 Mark Carroll
SR 11 Steve Menzies
SR 12 Daniel Gartner
LK 8 Owen Cunningham
Substitutions:
IC 6 Cliff Lyons
IC 14 Neil Tierney
IC 16 Des Hasler
IC 19 Craig Hancock
Coach:
Australia Bob Fulton
FB 1 Dean Raper
RW 2 Nick Zisti
RC 3 Mark Coyne (c)
LC 4 Mark Bell
LW 5 Adrian Brunker
FE 6 Anthony Mundine
HB 7 Noel Goldthorpe
PR 8 Troy Stone
HK 9 Jeff Hardy
PR 10 Luke Felsch
SR 11 Scott Gourley
SR 12 Kevin Campion
LK 13 Wayne Bartrim
Substitutions:
IC 14 Nathan Brown
IC 15 Lance Thompson
IC 16 David Barnhill
IC 17 Colin Ward
Coach:
Australia David Waite

1st half
In the 5th minute, Manly centre Craig Innes won the chase and scored after a grubber kick by his skipper Geoff Toovey.[27] Matthew Ridge converted from the sideline for 6–0. The Dragons played on after being awarded a penalty in front of the posts in the 8th minute but failed to score. At the 15-minute mark Saints' halfback Noel Goldthorpe conceded a penalty right in front of their goalpost after committing a head high tackle on Manly's Daniel Gartner. Ridge took the kick, extending the lead to 8–0. St. George sent in forward replacements Lance Thompson and David Barnhill for Scott Gourley and Kevin Campion (head cut). For Manly, Tierney came off the interchange bench to replace Gillespie. Up until the 19th minute mark when Manly veteran five-eighth Cliff Lyons took the field, their coach Bob Fulton was using six running forwards with Toovey as dummy half.

After turning down a relatively easy penalty goal chance not long after Manly's opening try, the Dragons' first points came in the 37th minute when Wayne Bartrim kicked a penalty awarded when Manly forward Cunningham stripped the ball. From the ensuing kick-off just before half-time came the game's controversial moment and a hotly disputed try. Ridge made a spectacular short kick-off and regathered, catching the Dragons unaware. St George hooker Nathan Brown appeared to tackle Ridge albeit one-handedly and by the collar. Ridge got up and ran when Brown was expecting him to stop and play the ball. Referee David Manson ruled that Brown did not complete the tackle. Ridge was eventually tackled just a few metres from the line. From dummy-half Nik Kosef then passed the ball to Steve Menzies who stormed his way through Saints' defense of Thompson, Raper, Goldthorpe and Bartrim to score next to the posts, giving Ridge an easy conversion kick. The controversial ruling by referee Manson gave Manly a 14–2 half time lead and broke Saints' resolve. In the process of scoring Menzies injured his groin/hamstring and although he returned for the second half, he was unable to run and was eventually replaced by coach Fulton.

2nd half
In the 53rd minute Manly's Danny Moore scored a try from a Terry Hill pass after Hill drew Saints defenders, Adrian Brunker and Nick Zisti. With Ridge off the field after being concussed in a tackle, Innes converted from 5m off the sideline for the Sea-Eagles to take a 20–2 lead. Five minutes later Dragons' winger Zisti scored a try from a Bartrim cut-out pass. Bartrim then converted from the sideline for a final scoreline of 20–8.[28] The final twenty minutes were scoreless with two field goal attempts from Ridge charged down by Dragons' defenders.

Player statistics

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Note: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.

Player Games (sub) Tries Goals FG Points
Australia Mark Carroll 23 3 12
Australia Owen Cunningham 24 2 8
Australia Matt Dunford (2)
Australia Jack Elsegood 13 (4) 6 5 34
Australia Scott Fulton (5)
Australia Daniel Gartner 19 (4) 6 24
Australia David Gillespie 17 (8)
Australia Mathew Guberina 2 (1)
Australia Craig Hancock (3)
Australia Des Hasler 10 (12) 2 1/2 10
Tonga Solomon Haumono 1 (13) 1 4
Australia Terry Hill 22 7 28
Australia John Hopoate 18 (5) 11 44
New Zealand Craig Innes 25 13 6/7 64
Australia Martin-John Kelly (1)
Australia Nik Kosef 18 (6) 3 12
Australia Cliff Lyons 20 (5) 4 16
Australia Steve Menzies 24 20 80
Australia Danny Moore 25 13 52
Australia Shannon Nevin 5 (4) 3 17/26 46
New Zealand Matthew Ridge (vc) 17 7 68/84 1 165
Australia Jim Serdaris 18 (1)
Australia Neil Tierney 1 (19)
Australia Geoff Toovey (c) 23 3 12
TOTAL 104 96/148 1 609

Representative Players

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International

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State

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City vs Country

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References

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  1. ^ ARL 1996 - Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
  2. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.1 - Manly vs South Sydney
  3. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.2 - Manly vs Gold Coast
  4. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.3 - North Sydney vs Manly
  5. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.4 - Gold Coast vs Manly
  6. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.5 - Manly vs Auckland
  7. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.6 - South Queensland vs Manly
  8. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.7 - Manly vs North Queensland
  9. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.8 - St George vs Manly
  10. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.9 - Manly vs Canterbury-Bankstown
  11. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.10 - Manly vs Canberra
  12. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.11 - Brisbane vs Manly
  13. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.12 - Manly vs North Sydney
  14. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.13 - Western Reds vs Manly
  15. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.14 - Illawarra vs Manly
  16. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.15 - Manly vs Parramatta
  17. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.16 - Manly vs Sydney City
  18. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.17 - Manly vs Newcastle
  19. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.18 - Cronulla-Sutherland vs Manly
  20. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.19 - Manly vs Sydney Tigers
  21. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.20 - Penrith vs Manly
  22. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.21 - Manly vs Western Suburbs
  23. ^ 1996 ARL Rd.22 - South Sydney vs Manly
  24. ^ 1996 ARL Qualifying Final - Manly-Warringah vs Sydney City
  25. ^ 1996 ARL Preliminary Final - Manly-Warringah vs Cronulla-Sutherland
  26. ^ 1996 ARL Grand Final - Manly-Warringah vs St. George
  27. ^ Jessup, Peter (30 June 2001). "Final line-break for Innes". nzherald.co.nz. APN Holdings NZ Limited. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  28. ^ "NRL Finals in the 1990s". sportal.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
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