Seibold's 'nice gesture' reigniting Manly spirits

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New Manly manager Anthony Seibold is going backmost to the aboriginal successful a bid to re-capture the tone of the embattled Sea Eagles successful 2023.

Manly are inactive a nine divided aft past year's Pride jumper fiasco, which saw the club's finals run clang and burn.

But Seibold has taken the nine backmost to its roots successful a bid to get harmony backmost - by getting players to scope retired to its history.

Last week, each Manly subordinate rang 1 of the club's erstwhile stars for a chat and payment cheque - and to speech astir the Sea Eagles' affluent past.

"I thought it would beryllium a bully thought for the guys to marque interaction with the players who dug the well," Seibold told Wide World of Sports.

"It was large for these young guys to speech to players who had represented the nine successful the past and the erstwhile players besides seemed to bask knowing that they hadn't been forgotten.

"So it was a win-win situation.

"It's a bully beingness accomplishment to ringing idiosyncratic retired of the bluish and onslaught up a speech and the boys got a batch of of it, getting to speech to older guys who had been there, done that."

Former 1980s goalkicking inferior Mike Eden was 1 subordinate who appreciated the contact.

"I got a telephone retired of the bluish from Dean Matterson, 1 of the club's caller signings.

"He asked however I was doing and we talked astir my epoch and however the crippled has changed - it was a truly bully gesture.

"I cognize a fewer much of the older guys who are doing it pugnacious had their spirits lifted by it and we besides got invited to travel ticker immoderate games during the year, which volition beryllium great."

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