So Manly are unhappy about reports coming out of the media. Welcome to an Eels fans world. Not nice is it Manly?
Manly have lashed out at allegations two of their NRL matches from the 2015 season are being investigated for match-fixing.
In a statement released on Friday, Sea Eagles chairman Scott Penn and CEO Joe Kelly assured its stakeholders that they would co-operate with any probe surrounding the cooking of games.
!["All I have said to them [the Manly players] is ignore it": Trent Barrett.](http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/a/g/4/3/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gpaoyc.png/1464917313802.jpg)
"All I have said to them [the Manly players] is ignore it": Trent Barrett. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
The club also stressed they had yet to be contacted by NSW police, and were upset with initial reports that two fixtures involving their NRL team are already under the spotlight.
"It is bitterly disappointing that the club's hard-earned 70-year reputation for fair play has been unfairly tarnished by imputations raised by some media outlets involving two Sea Eagles matches last season, albeit there is presently no formal investigation," the statement read.
Manly also said they endorsed NRL boss Todd Greenberg's threat of life bans for any player or official found guilty of match-fixing and promised to be open with fans with any further developments.
"The Sea Eagles fully support the strong stance by NRL CEO Todd Greenberg that any player found guilty of match fixing be banned for life," the statement continued.
"We will continue to support our players one hundred per cent and give them the presumption of innocence particularly against unfair mainstream and social media innuendo."
Sea Eagles coach Trent Barrett has already addressed the situation with his players ahead of Friday's NRL clash against Canberra in the nation's capital.
A win over the Raiders would lift the Brookvale-based team back into top-eight contention.
"All I have said to them is ignore it," Barrett told the Seven Network.
"They are professionals and we have a job to do. Where we sit on the competition table, this is an extremely important game for us.
"It is not ideal, we would rather it not be around the whole game. It isn't ideal but the one thing we can control is guest to block it out, stick together and win for the Manly football club."
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now the media turned on todd and bozo good luck guys your next will be your salary cap and 3 rd party deals wurg dce ect
Feels good to have this wonderful distraction. We should start a "LOL @ Manly" blog to emulate the sh1t they been sprouting about us on silvertails. Karma is a great thing!
After all these months they must have run out of blue and yellow toner.
LOL :)
Classic.
shit, I hope that Kent and Rebecca
end up in court.
For writing false articles all they
Do is destroy people's lives, just
so they can sell papers.
Wouldn't it be nice if there bank
statements could be read out
into the open? So we could see
what they spend their money on.
How sweet would that be?
Heavenly justifying wouldn't it.
Parramum... Cheers!
Gold!!!
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