# 2020 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season

The 2020 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 71st in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. After twenty rounds, the team finished 13th on the NRL Ladder.

## COVID-19 Pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NRL matches were halted after the second round. The Sea Eagles were originally meant to play the New Zealand Warriors and Canberra Raiders in Rounds Three and Four, but the NRL announced an updated draw for those rounds on 15 May that gave the Sea Eagles fixtures against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Parramatta Eels in those rounds.
The Sea Eagles played home games at Central Coast Stadium until the end of round seven where they then returned back to Brookvale.

## Signings/Transfers
### Gains

| Player | 2019 Club | 2020 Club | Ref |
| Danny Levi | Newcastle Knights | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | |
| Morgan Harper | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | |

### Losses

| Player | 2019 Club | 2020 Club |
| Kane Elgey | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Retirement |
| Trent Hodkinson | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Retirement |
| Apisai Koroisau | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Penrith Panthers |
| Lloyd Perrett | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Wynnum-Manly Seagulls (Intrust Super Cup) |
| Kelepi Tanginoa | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Super League: Wakefield Trinity |

## Ladder

2020 NRL seasonvte :
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Penrith Panthers | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 537 | 238 | +299 | 37 |
| 2 | Melbourne Storm (P) | 20 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 534 | 276 | +258 | 32 |
| 3 | Parramatta Eels | 20 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 392 | 288 | +104 | 30 |
| 4 | Sydney Roosters | 20 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 552 | 322 | +230 | 28 |
| 5 | Canberra Raiders | 20 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 445 | 317 | +128 | 28 |
| 6 | South Sydney Rabbitohs | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 521 | 352 | +169 | 24 |
| 7 | Newcastle Knights | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 421 | 374 | +47 | 23 |
| 8 | Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks | 20 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 480 | 480 | 0 | 20 |
| 9 | Gold Coast Titans | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 346 | 463 | −117 | 18 |
| 10 | New Zealand Warriors | 20 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 343 | 458 | −115 | 16 |
| 11 | Wests Tigers | 20 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 440 | 505 | −65 | 14 |
| 12 | St. George Illawarra Dragons | 20 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 378 | 452 | −74 | 14 |
| 13 | Manly Warringah Sea Eagles | 20 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 375 | 509 | −134 | 14 |
| 14 | North Queensland Cowboys | 20 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 368 | 520 | −152 | 10 |
| 15 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 20 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 282 | 504 | −222 | 6 |
| 16 | Brisbane Broncos | 20 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 268 | 624 | −356 | 6 |

### Ladder progression

* Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
* Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
* Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 14 |

## Player statistics

Note: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.
| Player | Games (sub) | Tries | Goals | FG | Points |
| Morgan Boyle | 2 (5) | | | | |
| Daly Cherry-Evans (c) | 20 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 49 |
| Lachlan Croker | 4 (16) | 1 | | | 4 |
| Cade Cust | 8 (2) | 3 | | | 12 |
| Brendan Elliot | 14 (1) | 3 | | | 12 |
| Addin Fonua-Blake | 14 (1) | 3 | | | 12 |
| Tevita Funa | 12 | 5 | | | 20 |
| Reuben Garrick | 17 | 4 | 41 | | 98 |
| Jack Gosiewski | 3 (10) | 6 | | | 24 |
| Morgan Harper | 4 | 3 | | 12 |
| Albert Hopoate | 4 (1) | | | | |
| Sean Keppie | 2 (17) | | | | |
| Daniel Levi | 20 | 2 | | | 8 |
| Abbas Miski | 2 (1) | 2 | | | 8 |
| Haumole Olakau'atu | 1 (4) | 1 | | | 4 |
| Brad Parker | 19 | 4 | | | 16 |
| Taniela Paseka | 5 (13) | 3 | | | 12 |
| Josh Schuster | 1 | | | | |
| Curtis Sironen | 18 | 3 | | | 12 |
| Moses Suli | 13 | 2 | | | 8 |
| Jorge Taufua | 14 | 7 | | | 28 |
| Martin Taupau | 16 (2) | 2 | | | 8 |
| Joel Thompson | 14 | 2 | | | 8 |
| Jake Trbojevic (vc) | 20 | 2 | | | 8 |
| Tom Trbojevic | 7 | 4 | | | 16 |
| Corey Waddell | 5 (8) | 1 | | | 8 |
| Dylan Walker | 7 | 1 | | | 4 |
| TOTAL | 20 | 67 | 53 | 1 | 375 |