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Please Don't sack Seibold

lynx000

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Why would Seibold accept a $1m payout when his contract is worth another $3.2m ?
His contract has 4 more years to run (3 plus a 1-year option in his favour).

He's clearly failed badly - but if the Broncos appoint Walters they deserve all they get.

You're right in that Kevvie would get a long honeymoon period with all his mates in the media (and it's full of ex-Broncos)....but what about the fans if they keep on losing ? His track record isn't good.

Kevvie coached Catalans Dragons in SL in 2009-10 and was a disaster, He won only 19 of 54 games over 2 years & 6 of 27 to finish with the wooden-spoon in his final season (2010). .

The Dragons then saw the light and appointed....Trent Robinson.
He had one bad season at Catalans. The previous year, despite winning only 1 from the first 6, they made the finals and fell one game short of the GF.

His earlier coaching record was quite good.

He coached the Toowoomba Clydesdales to a premiership in the 2001 Qld Cup - played 20, won 18, lost 1

Qld Cup 2007 Ipswich Jets - coached them to 4th position - played 20, won 13, drew 1, lost 6
Qld Cup 2008 Ipswich Jets - coached them to minor premiership and beaten GFinalist - Played 20, won 16, +327 points diff.

106 games - 67.5% winning percentage.
That suggests that the guy can coach.
 

_Johnsy

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https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/wo...owner-on-last-day-in-job-20200825-p55p8o.html


OPINION
'Wouldn't man up': Seibold savages Broncos owner on last day in job.
Andrew Webster

For the past 18 months, Anthony Seibold has been dealing with personal attacks from a variety of angles. The first wave came from the frontline of former Broncos players who were angry Seibold was appointed head coach ahead of Kevin Walters.

Then the hand grenades came from Wayne Bennett, who believed he should never have been replaced by Seibold in the first place. Last week, the sewer of social media became the main supply of Seibold hate, spreading lies about his personal life. They were so rank he called in lawyers and cybercrime experts.


When the Broncos' largest private investor, Phil Murphy, on Monday compared the coach to a “cancer that needs to be cut out before the Broncos die”, Seibold had simply had enough.

“I got his number and tried to call him today, but he hung up when I said who it was,” Seibold told the Herald. “Wouldn't man up and own his comments. That’s the measure of a man. “I don’t know the bloke. He has nothing to do with our club other than own some shares. Seen him three times in my life. The last time was when some players asked for him to be banned from the change rooms after a game last year because of his behaviour.”

The deliberate, methodical campaign to extract Seibold from Red Hill finally succeeded on Tuesday afternoon when he agreed to quit with at least three years remaining on his contract. It remains unclear how much he will receive of the $3 million he would’ve earned if he'd stayed on. A figure of $1.5 million has been widely speculated but can’t be confirmed. With no performance clauses in his deal, he was in the box seat if the club sacked him.

Seibold insisted he brought the matter to a head after chairman Karl Morris told him on Friday the board wanted him to coach the remaining five matches before the dreaded "end-of-season review" was undertaken. News Corp denied speculation it had stepped in, along with claims chief executive Michael Miller had recently requested a copy of Seibold’s contract to check for performance clauses.
But it can be revealed former Broncos players have been privately messaging Miller to vent their frustration because of how poorly the side has been performing. That in itself highlights the depth of despair at the once-proud Broncos.

They can stop texting because Seibold has coached his final game for the club. He will address his players on Wednesday morning and then hold a 9am media conference before getting out of Dodge. He will then spend a week on a mate’s farm with his NRL future in serious doubt, just two years after being named Dally M coach of the year because of what he achieved as a rookie at Souths.

It is a stunning fall from grace and there are several reasons for it, but perhaps the most obvious is Seibold never handled the intense scrutiny, pressure and expectation that comes with coaching the Broncos. Only one man ever has. Morris and chief executive Paul White decided long ago that winning their power struggle with Bennett meant more to them than on-field success.

Seibold showed as far back as December 2018 that he would struggle with the attacks coming his way. When he and Bennett swapped jobs for the 2020 season, Bennett dug in his heels and said he wanted to coach out the 2019 season with Brisbane, that he owed it to his players and all that jazz.

“I have had a gutful,” Seibold said at the time. “I’ve been sitting here for four weeks and feeling like a punching bag. It’s not acceptable and it's not fair ... I’m sick of Wayne carrying on. "I’ve bit my tongue and said nothing until now. I just want clarity and so do the players. I feel for the players at both clubs. It’s a joke.”

The mouse had taken the cheese. From then on, he became an easy nut to crack and his detractors have been cracking them ever since. When his side won seven from nine heading into the finals last year, the hand grenades were easily deflected.

But the white noise crept in this season after each humiliating loss as the opposition posted cricket scores, all live on prime-time TV reserved for the high-rating Broncos. Club insiders say since the COVID-19 break, the team has been divided between those who were prepared to play for Seibold and those who weren’t.

There’s certainly a whiff of entitlement about many of them, not least Tevita Pangai jnr who now wants to stay at the club — with the help of a PR adviser — despite trashing it for weeks.

That’s something that would never have happened on Bennett’s watch. Sure, many Broncos players over the years have projected the sense of privilege that can appear at one-city teams, but the skinny coach worked it to his advantage.

He always had their support. Seibold did not.

Hilarious, that the white anting started from day 1.

Ex players angry their mate didn’t get the job, what a pack of self entitled twats. Kulcha
 

THE CHAMP

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Thank Christ mcgregor is available. When does he start? I’ve heard rumors Seibold is heading for the dragons
 

THE CHAMP

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Broncos culture hasn't been the same since the day they shut City Rowers. I reckon the walls in those toilet cubicles could tell a few tales

Ah the days before mobile phones with cameras. A few players would be very grateful
 

some11

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Terrible news. They'll win a couple more games now which is more than the Bulldogs can match unless we get some torrential downpours in the next month.
Yep, gutted.

Dogs are shit but at least they're trying.

Watch the Broncos board scramble to hold onto their jobs, useless pack of merkins. Being 68% owned by News, you won't hear any criticism of what went on.
 

Fufu Andronez

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I really hope Seibs digs his heels in now for a bigger payout then sues the arse off the Broncos organisation for causing emotional distress. Can't believe a shareholder would so brazenly call an individual a cancer to be cut out.
That dude was part of the jeff horn Tim Tszyu press conference for some reason. Told the SHITTEST, rambling old man story about getting some meat from taronga zoo for Tszyu to eat or something along those lines. Immediately got called out for having shit banter. Was glorious.
 

Fufu Andronez

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Now that Seibs is gone, who will be operating the world famous Broncos bbq?

Gotta be the only thing Locky is qualified to do around the office?
 

Haffa

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He had one bad season at Catalans. The previous year, despite winning only 1 from the first 6, they made the finals and fell one game short of the GF.

His earlier coaching record was quite good.

He coached the Toowoomba Clydesdales to a premiership in the 2001 Qld Cup - played 20, won 18, lost 1

Qld Cup 2007 Ipswich Jets - coached them to 4th position - played 20, won 13, drew 1, lost 6
Qld Cup 2008 Ipswich Jets - coached them to minor premiership and beaten GFinalist - Played 20, won 16, +327 points diff.

106 games - 67.5% winning percentage.
That suggests that the guy can coach.
Rick Stone also won the Queensland Cup.

Both are a poor mans Rip Taylor.
 

Knight Vision

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Darius Boyd deserves more scrutiny. What a scumbag of an individual.
You can just imagine how many knives he stuck in the coaches back, polluting the squad's mindset, the negativity and doubt he cast on the decision making. The late night calls to Daddy in Sydney professing his undying love and loyalty.

Boyd would be the first rock I would look under.
 

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