{"id":204860,"date":"2025-10-11T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:54:09","slug":"the-enduring-influence-of-michael-maguire-and-2010-heroes-on-wigan-warriors-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204860\/","title":{"rendered":"The enduring influence of Michael Maguire and 2010 heroes on Wigan Warriors \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MICHAEL MAGUIRE claimed the third top league title of his career last Sunday as his Brisbane Broncos won the NRL Grand Final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He previously won Super League with Wigan Warriors in 2010 and the NRL with South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2014.<\/p>\n

But if Wigan win on Saturday against Hull KR he can claim some credit for that too, and every other Warriors success in between.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the view of club captain Liam Farrell, the last remaining player from that 2010 Grand Final-winning side but by no means the last influence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest compliment I could probably pay him (Maguire) is some of his morals, we still stand by them now,\u201d said Farrell, who was 20 when Wigan beat St Helens 22-10 in his first Grand Final and is now 35.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor them to still be around 15 years after he left is a credit to him. We didn\u2019t have any flashy players, it was all hard work and discipline, making sure you did that on the field but also off it. They\u2019re ingrained in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise those values have lived on at the club. The 2010 side was skippered by Sean O\u2019Loughlin and led at halfback by Thomas Leuluai and Paul Deacon, with all three on Matt Peet\u2019s current coaching staff, while Maguire was assisted by Shaun Wane, who led three further title wins and now has a leadership and management role.<\/p>\n

Maguire was being criticised earlier in the season for his brutal training methods with Brisbane, which brought a smile to Farrell and no doubt many of his former team-mates who have a WhatsApp group and congratulated Maguire after his latest triumph.<\/p>\n

Farrell said: \u201cHe copped a bit of criticism earlier in the year about his coaching style but that just took me back to 2010 and the things he did with us and the hard work we went through to get to the team we were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a tough coach to be under but you get all the rewards you deserve. He\u2019s a very smart and hard-working coach so I was really pleased for him to get that win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maguire effect can be seen in Wigan\u2019s record before he took charge \u2013 six seasons without a Grand Final appearance and eleven without lifting the title \u2013 and the five further titles, from eight Old Trafford visits, since he left in 2011.<\/p>\n

It can also be seen in the players inspired by it such as Brad O\u2019Neill, Wigan\u2019s first-choice hooker who went to his first Grand Final in 2010, at the age of eight.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill said: \u201cI remember Liam Farrell playing, Paul Deacon, Tommy Leuluai, Lockers (O\u2019Loughlin) all playing, Martin Gleeson played (and scored two of Wigan\u2019s four tries), Darrell Goulding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first time Wigan had been there in a while so it all starts with memories like that, which makes it all a bit more special to be here (playing in a Grand Final) now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MICHAEL MAGUIRE claimed the third top league title of his career last Sunday as his Brisbane Broncos won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-204860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204860","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=204860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}