Avoiding The Spoon
Manly have avoided the wooden spoon in their sixty-two completed seasons since entering the competition in 1947 (this period includes the three-year merger period when the club was part of the Northern Eagles). The closest the club came was in its first year of 1947 and in 2003 with second last placings. The Balmain Tigers also enjoyed a sixty-two season wooden spoon drought from 1911-1974.
None of the merged clubs (Wests Tigers, Northern Eagles or St. George Illawarra) have ever won a wooden spoon.
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