Manly assistant coach Willie Peters complained of being bullied at the Sea Eagles this season before exchanging blows with another member of Trent Barrett's staff during a drinking session at The Rocks.
Manly have parted ways with assistant coach Willie Peters after he came to blows with fellow Sea Eagles staffer Dan Ferris outside a pub at The Rocks.
Police had to be called to break up a fight between Manly Sea Eagles staffers in The Rocks.
Hawk-Eye technology secretly trialled during the Manly-Penrith match last Saturday night has revealed Sea Eagles centre Dylan Walker was offside
Two NRL coaches had gripes in the first week of the finals. We take a look at whether they were right.
Furious Manly chairman Scott Penn says it is an "absolute disgrace" that they were not permitted a home final against Penrith.
The fuming second-year coach said it would be a "bloody shame" if a grand final was decided by a Bunker blunder
​Five years after Kieran Foran was awarded an infamous finals try that officials subsequently admitted should never have been given, the Sea Eagles are this time on the wrong end of a similar controversy.
Nathan Cleary's right boot kicked Manly to the brink - and out of the finals - as dad Ivan sat wondering at what stage does he put away the cookbook and dive for the chequebook.
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Five burning questions: Manly Sea Eagles v Penrith Panthers
It occurs to Brenton Lawrence, about halfway through his musings on the Greatest Game of All, that "I'll probably get shot by the NRL for saying that."
Dylan Walker, the least popular man in Penrith right now, isn't going to change.
Penrith have vowed to get payback on Dylan Walker in this week's do-or-die final after the Manly centre got under their skin with a series of expletive-ladened sledges last week.
It has been a big week for the Sironen family.
Daly Cherry-Evans knows the Sea Eagles will have to rip up the game plan which has already worked so well against the Panthers, but expects the NRL surprise packets to keep confounding critics and go deep into the finals.
Manly and Penrith will both finish in the top eight after the Sea Eagles dished out a 28-10 belting on Saturday.
They've left sceptics scratching their heads and at one stage threatened a top four spot as Trent Barrett eyed Dally M Coach of the Year honours, but Martin Taupau has conceded Manly's season could be viewed as a failure if they don't make the finals.
Manly chairman Scott Penn will urge skipper Daly Cherry-Evans and the Sea Eagles squad to honour promotional appearances for the finals series should they qualify, claiming there is "no point" to players boycotting events in September.
He is Manly's $10 million man on the cusp of leading the club back to the finals, but a candid Daly Cherry-Evans reckons a renowned NRL mind guru helped him realise he wasn't trying as much as he should, which was hurting his Sea Eagles legacy.