old school

[Southern Rooster]

Manly were never known as the Seagulls in an official sense.

True. There was a bit of a debate recently on www.oneeyedeagle.com about it. Manly Warringah were never known as "The Seagulls".

(Source: Big League)FIFTY years ago, the official emblem of the Manly-Warringah rugby league club provoked argument in the district. A journalist of the 1950s, Jim Mather, tagged the Seagulls, but long-serving adminstrator Jack Martin insisted that the sea eagle, a native bird along the Sydney coastline, was always the club's official emblem.

interesting to say the least....
here's an excert from "The Bulldog Story" when explaining the history of the Bulldog emblem, comparing to Manly's change....

'Berries' ran off the tounge easily and it was a recognisable catchcry at matches. By the end of 1977, however, the modern game, with its ripe marketing opportunities for licensed characters and merchandising virtually insisted on a link with an animal.
The Bulldog seemed the perfect solution. Like Manly in the late 1960s when they changed their emblem from the sea gull to the more aggressive sea eagle, the switch was to coincide with premiership victories for both clubs.

Can anyone confirm if Manly were officially called the Seagulls???

I have always believed and everything I have read suggests manly were NEVER known as the Seagulls.

 

[Anonymous]

There's a few posts here: http://www.oneeyedeagle.com/MessageBoard.asp?s=70
which swear that that they were known as the Seagulls, including someone who quotes Rex Mossop.

Perhaps the confusion has come out of the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls association.
:?:

 

[The Engineers Room]

The Parrramatta Eels originally had no mascot, then they have the logo of an Aboriginal fisherman (Parramatta Council Emblem). Then some bright spark came across the meaning of the word Parramatta and it was adopted.

 

[Southern Rooster]

The Parrramatta Eels originally had no mascot, then they have the logo of an Aboriginal fisherman (Parramatta Council Emblem). Then some bright spark came across the meaning of the word Parramatta and it was adopted.

That bright spark happened to be the late Peter Frilingos.