{"id":40988,"date":"2025-08-03T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40988\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:04:12","slug":"anthony-seibold-explains-latest-tom-trbojevic-switch-after-sea-eagles-loss-vs-sydney-roosters-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40988\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Seibold explains latest Tom Trbojevic switch after Sea Eagles loss vs Sydney Roosters, press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Seibold<\/a> has admitted he will “have a think” about where Tom Trbojevic<\/a> lines up for the rest of the year following Manly<\/a>‘s rain-affected loss to the Roosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The club’s marquee man started the game at centre but moved to fullback when Lehi Hopoate was forced from the field for a head injury assessment.<\/p>\n

Hopoate would soon return in his usual role, but with the game on the line at Brookvale Oval, the coach opted to move Trbojevic to fullback in a bid to spark the attack.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work for the Sea Eagles as they fell 20-4 on their home turf in treacherous conditions, putting a major dent in their finals hopes.<\/p>\n

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Manly Sea Eagles players during their round 22 loss\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game, Seibold was quizzed on why he switched Trbojevic to the back and whether it was a possibility he stays there long-term again.<\/p>\n

“I’ll have a think about it, it’s 10 minutes after the game,” the Manly coach said<\/p>\n

“We went down 20 points to four with 20 minutes to go, we were chasing three tries.<\/p>\n

“We just needed to try something, what we were doing, we weren’t getting any field position and we just tried to get Turbo on the footy and start moving the footy.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard moving it in that sort of weather. We were trying to chase.”<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trbojevic has endured another tough season, battling with injuries and fitness concerns, but looked to have found a home at centre in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

However, with back-to-back losses at the hands of the Bulldogs and Roosters putting the side in a desperate position, Seibold could look to shake things up again.<\/p>\n

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Tom Trbojevic during Manly’s round 22 game at Brookvale Oval\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Manly now sit on 24 points – level with the Roosters and two points behind Cronulla – with games against the Raiders, Dolphins and Warriors still to come. <\/p>\n

Seibold is confident the Sea Eagles can turn things around and surge into September.<\/p>\n

“We have just got to keep this fight up,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have showed a ton of fight, the scoreboard got away from us the last 25 minutes of last weekend, but we have been fighting really hard. I don’t think that will change.<\/p>\n

“Our discipline needs to be better. Seven or eight yardage penalties across the game – they just gave the Roosters a leg up.<\/p>\n

“But the guys are working really hard, we will keep fighting and it’s still in their hands.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Seibold has admitted he will “have a think” about where Tom Trbojevic lines up for the rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-40988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988","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=40988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}