Manly Sea Eagles club legend Graham Eadie

Cronulla Sharks v Manly Sea Eagles Stats

The Cronulla Sharks and Manly Sea Eagles have played each other on 94 occasions; the Sharks have won 24 games, Manly have won 66 and there have been four draws.
That equates to a win percentage against Manly of just 25% for the Sharks.

Manly have won 23 of the last 29 games against the Cronulla Sharks, including the last four games in a row.

Stuart Raper is the only Cronulla Sharks coach with a winning record against the Manly Sea Eagles.

The first game played between the two sides was a 39-5 win for the Manly Sea Eagles in round 8, 1967.

Biggest Wins

The Cronulla Sharks biggest ever win over the Manly Sea Eagles was a comfortable 68-6 rout in round 24, 2005.

The Manly Sea Eagles biggest ever win over the Cronulla Sharks was a dominant 50-14 display in round 6, 1984.

Manly Sea Eagles legend Bob Fulton

Top try-scorer in this clash

Bob Fulton (MAN) – 10
Des Hasler (MAN) – 10
Brett Stewart (MAN) – 10
Andrew Ettinghausen (CRO) – 9
Steve Menzies (MAN) – 9
Anthony Watmough (MAN) – 9

Most prolific point-scorer in this clash

Graham Eadie (MAN) – 7 tries, 68 goals & 1 field goal (160 pts)*
Steve Rogers (CRO) – 4 tries & 54 goals (120 pts)*
Bob Batty (MAN) – 4 tries & 41 goals (94 pts)*
Luke Covell (CRO) – 3 tries & 32 goals (76 pts)
Jamie Lyon (MAN) – 4 tries & 27 goals (70 pts)

Players to have played for both sides from this clash

  1. Jim See – 1980 (MAN) & 1981-1987 (CRO)
  2. Barry Pearson – 1968 (MAN) & 1980 (CRO)
  3. Craig Teevan – 1991 (CRO) & 1992 (MAN)
  4. Nathan Long – 1994-2001 (CRO) & 2003 (MAN)
  5. Phil Bailey – 1999 (MAN) & 2002-2006 (CRO)
  6. Jye Mullane – 2002-2003 (CRO) & 2004 (MAN)
  7. Jason Ferris – 1999-2000 (CRO) & 2003 (MAN)
  8. Paul Stephenson – 2004-2006 (MAN) & 2007-2008 (CRO)
  9. Ian Donnelly – 2004 (MAN) & 2007 (CRO)
  10. Jeff Robson – 2004 & 2008 (MAN) & 2012-2015 (CRO)
  11. Adam Cuthbertson – 2006-2009 (MAN) & 2010 (CRO)
  12. Jack Afamasaga – 2007-2008 (MAN) & 2009 (CRO)
  13. Blake Green – 2008-2009 (CRO) & 2017 (MAN)
  14. Terene Seuseu – 2008-2009 (CRO) & 2010-2011 (MAN)
  15. Matthew Wright – 2009 & 2011-2013 (CRO) & 2016-2018 (MAN)
  16. Trent Hodkinson – 2010 & 2018-2019 (MAN) & 2018 (CRO)
  17. Siosaia Vave – 2010-2011 & 2014 (CRO) & 2016 (MAN)
  18. Tim Robinson – 2011-2012 (MAN) & 2014-2015 (CRO)
  19. Jesse Sene-Lefao – 2013-2015 (MAN) & 2016 (CRO)

Players to have been sin-binned/sent-off from this clash

  1. Dane Sorenson (CRO) sent-off in round 10, 1978.
  2. Kurt Sorenson (CRO) sin-binned in round 1, 1983.
  3. Kurt Sorenson (CRO) and Dave Brown (MAN) both sin-binned in round 15, 1983.
  4. Chris Gardner (CRO) sin-binned in round 6, 1984.
  5. Des Hasler (MAN) sin-binned in round 8, 1987.
  6. Owen Cunningham (MAN) sent-off in round 18, 1995.
  7. John Hopoate (MAN) sent-off & Ryan McGoldrick/David Peachey (both CRO) both sin-binned in round 2, 2005.
  8. Luke Covell (CRO) sin-binned in round 3, 2006.
  9. Luke Douglas (CRO) sent-off in round 25, 2009.

Players to have scored three or more tries in one game in this clash

  1. Les Hanigan (MAN) scored five tries in round 8, 1967.
  2. Bob Fulton (MAN) scored three tries in round 21, 1968.
  3. Phil Blake (MAN) scored three tries in round 1, 1983.
  4. Col Dreier (MAN) scored three tries in round 6, 1984.
  5. Des Hasler (MAN) scored three tries in round 6, 1984.
  6. Des Hasler (MAN) scored three tries in round 26, 1985.
  7. Andrew Ettinghausen (CRO) scored three tries in round 10, 1988.
  8. Andrew Ettinghausen (CRO) scored three tries in round 5, 1994.
  9. Brett Stewart (MAN) scored three tries in round 11, 2004.
  10. Michael Monaghan (MAN) scored three tries in round 2, 2005.
  11. Brett Kimmorley (CRO) scored three tries in round 24, 2005.
  12. Nigel Vagana (CRO) scored three tries in round 24, 2005.
  13. Anthony Watmough (MAN) scored three tries in round 19, 2010.
  14. Jorge Taufua (MAN) scored three tries in round 17, 2015.

Head Coaching Records

George Hunter (MAN) – 4/4 (100%)
Wally O’Connell (MAN) – 2/2 (100%)
Geoff Toovey (MAN) – 6/7 (85.7%)
Ray Ritchie (MAN) – 4/5 (80%)
Trent Barrett (MAN) – 3/4 (75%)
Bob Fulton (MAN) – 14/19 (73.7%)
Frank Stanton (MAN) – 9/13 (69.2%) (1 draw)
Des Hasler (MAN) – 11/16 (68.8%)
Stuart Raper (CRO) – 4/6 (66.7%)
John Lang (CRO) – 4/8 (50%)
Graham Lowe (MAN) – 2/4 (50%) (1 draw)
Noel Thornton (CRO) – 1/2 (50%)
Edwin Glossop (CRO) – 1/2 (50%)
Chris Anderson (CRO) – 1/2 (50%)
Allan Thomson (CRO) – 1/2 (50%)
Jack Gibson (CRO) – 2/6 (33.3%)
Arthur Beetson (CRO) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Peter Sharp (MAN) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Norm Provan (CRO) – 2/7 (28.6%) (1 draw)
Tommy Bishop (CRO) – 3/12 (25%)
Allan Fitzgibbon (CRO) – 1/4 (25%) (1 draw)
Shane Flanagan (CRO) – 2/10 (20%)
Greg Pierce (CRO) – 1/5 (20%)
Ricky Stuart (CRO) – 1/7 (14.3%)
Alan Thompson (MAN) – 0/1 (0%)
Peter Sharp (CRO) – 0/2 (0%)
John Morris (CRO) – 0/2 (0%)
John Raper (CRO) – 0/4 (0%)
Terrence Fearnley (CRO) – 0/4 (0%)
Kenneth Kearney (CRO) – 0/6 (0%)

 

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