the ‘Family Hill’. Once complete, the club will move all training and administration operations to this new, 4-storey building as well as the centre providing approximately 3,000 seats and premium hospitality spaces to be utilised on match day. The centre of excellence features change rooms, pools, a gym, training and medical spaces and general administration areas for staff to utilise. In round 3 of the 2022 NRL season, Manly played their first match back at the redeveloped Brookvale Oval defeating Canterbury-Bankstown 13-12. Players 2023 squad 2023 signings and transfers Gains Ben Condon - North Queensland Cowboys Troy Dargan - Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles Austin Dias - Wests Tigers Jackson Ferris - Newtown Jets Cooper Johns - Melbourne Storm Dean Matterson - Mounties Nathaniel Roache - Free Agent Josh Stuckey - Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Jake Toby - Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles Kelma Tuilagi - Wests Tigers Losses Andrew Davey - Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Kurt De Luis - Sydney Roosters Kieran Foran - Gold Coast Titans James Roumanous - Wests Tigers Pio Seci - Released James Segeyaro - FC Lézignan XIII Alfred Smalley - Released Martin Taupau - Brisbane Broncos Dylan Walker - New Zealand Warriors Sources: Manly Sea Eagles Past players The first Manly-Warringah team to play in the NSWRFL Premiership on 12 April 1947 was: (c) In 1990, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club recognised their players, past and present, with a team announced to reflect the best squad up to that point. That team is listed below. In 2006, a Dream Team of former Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles players was selected by a panel of selectors which featured former Manly-Warringah administrator Ken Arthurson, respected rugby league writer Ian Heads, the club chairman Kerry Sibraa and journalist Phil Rothfield. Rivalries North Sydney Bears Prior to the ill-fated Northern Eagles joint venture from 2000 to 2002, the rivalry between the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and foundation club the North Sydney Bears was arguably one of rugby league's fiercest. Manly were admitted into the premiership in 1947 with North Sydney at the time being one of the main advocators for a team to be in Manly. In Manly's first season, most of the side was made up of former Norths players including captain Max Whitehead who played for North Sydney in their 1943 Grand Final defeat by Newtown. The intense feelings between the two sides continued over the next couple of decades fuelled as players switched between