New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nManly are now entrenched in the top eight after languishing down the bottom for the first few weeks.<\/p>\n
Crucially, all three of those wins have come away from their home.<\/p>\n
It now begs the question as to what is so different under the Sea Eagles champion.<\/p>\n
Taniela Paseka of the Sea Eagles is tackled during a win over the Cowboys \u2014 Manly\u2019s third on the trot under Kieran Foran.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Three-time premiership winning halfback Luke Keary believes it\u2019s simply down to standards set from the top, led by Foran.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey kind of had a way under Siebs (Seibold) where they wanted to cheat their way out sometimes,\u201d Keary told The Late Show with Matty Johns on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it worked against certain teams, but when you do that, you send a message to your team about\u2026 \u2018we don\u2019t think we can match other teams in the middle so we\u2019re going to try some trick plays to go our way\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe numbers (Taniela) Paseka, (Kobe) Hetherington and even Jake\u2019s (Trbojevic) doing in these last three weeks with Kieran, they double what they did in the first week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The numbers don\u2019t lie in terms of what the Manly forward pack has dished up under their new coach.<\/p>\n
Across the first three games of the season under former coach Siebold, Paseka averaged 113 run metres a game, Hetherington at 71 and Jake Trbojevic just 30.<\/p>\n
On the flip side, in their three games under Foran, Paseka has averaged 162 metres a game, Hetherington at 126 and Trbojevic 56 – despite the latter playing less minutes due to a few in-game injury spells on the sideline.<\/p>\n
Outside of the numbers, the increase in output and potency from the Manly pack has been obvious to the eye as they move into their new era.<\/p>\n
Jamal Fogarty and Luke Brooks are leading the way for Manly, with the veteran five-eighth a new man.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Foran effect seems to have not stopped there though, with a lot more points and creativity coming from their halves in Luke Brooks and Jamal Fogarty.<\/p>\n
Both players came under fire after Manly\u2019s lacklustre start to the season, but are now thriving under the former premiership winning half turned coach.<\/p>\n
Another former premiership winner in Matty Johns believes the change in form comes down to what works for the playmakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was really clear at the start of the game, \u2018Foz\u2019 has got \u2018Brooksy\u2019 running shapes that suit his game,\u201d Johns added on The Late Show with Matty Johns.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (Brooks) was doing a lot of one-on-one short plays which forced playmakers to run, I reckon he found his rhythm off that\u2026 Foz simplified the game plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
If there was ever a prime example of the change in the way the halves have been playing, it was Brooks\u2019 try in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n
His halves partner Fogarty breaking the line with a cheeky grubber kick before teeing up his five-eighth for arguably the try of the night exemplified just how much has changed in the creativity department for the Sea Eagles.<\/p>\n
Outside of looking easier on the eye, Manly have scored 118 points across their three games under Foran, as opposed to 60 under Siebold to start the year.<\/p>\n
Fogarty on the other hand has six try assists under Foran, compared to just one under Siebold in the same amount of time.<\/p>\n
The former Raiders and Titans half also averaging just under 470 kick metres a game over the last three fixtures, while his first three games of the season saw him averaging 359.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life as an NRL haead coach couldn\u2019t have started any better for Manly Sea Eagles mentor Kieran Foran.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[297237,64,63,689,297233,54481,297235,18664,2105,27156,4517,297234,7681,297236,86430,4552,4518,262360,118611,4484,4459,56527,4601,18656,761,762,764,158,677,52764,7623,85,82522,4535,297238,22317],"class_list":{"0":"post-611936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-anthony-siebold","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-cheeky-grubber-kick","13":"tag-coaching-career","14":"tag-creativity-department","15":"tag-game-plan","16":"tag-getty-images-inc","17":"tag-halves-partner","18":"tag-hamstring-injury","19":"tag-head-role","20":"tag-ian-hitchcock","21":"tag-in-game-injury","22":"tag-injury-blow","23":"tag-jake-trbojevic","24":"tag-jamal-fogarty","25":"tag-jarrod-pollard","26":"tag-kick-metres","27":"tag-kieran-foran","28":"tag-luke-brooks","29":"tag-luke-keary","30":"tag-manly-sea-eagles","31":"tag-matty-johns","32":"tag-national-rugby-league","33":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","34":"tag-north-queensland-cowboys","35":"tag-nrl","36":"tag-oceania","37":"tag-premiership-winner","38":"tag-run-metres","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-star-fullback","41":"tag-tom-trbojevic","42":"tag-top-eight-contenders","43":"tag-try-assists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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