{"id":541696,"date":"2026-03-15T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541696\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:42:11","slug":"anthony-seibold-refuses-to-panic-after-0-2-start-manly-sea-eagles-loss-to-newcastle-knights-press-conference-dylan-brown-kalyn-ponga-tom-trbojevic-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541696\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Seibold refuses to panic after 0-2 start, Manly Sea Eagles loss to Newcastle Knights, press conference, Dylan Brown, Kalyn Ponga, Tom Trbojevic, nrl news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Seibold is confident that the Manly Sea Eagles will be able to turn around their season and could even make a run to the top-four despite back-to-back losses to begin their 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Coming within one point of defeating last year\u2019s minor premiers last week, it was a different story on Sunday afternoon as they struggled to defeat a depleted Newcastle Knights side.<\/p>\n

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Even when superstar duo Dylan Brown and Kalyn Ponga departed the field due to injuries, the Sea Eagles were only able to score a single try and looked lacklustre in attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of small wins today, I\u2019ve got to say. We were well beaten and we were well below par,\u201d Seilbold said after the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were well beaten, well below par so we\u2019re disappointed with that because I thought we were really good for periods last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t handle some of the areas we made today and just couldn\u2019t show enough resolve. We had a fair bit of footy inside our 20 but we couldn\u2019t get it into field position.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo times we did in the first-half we actually scored. I thought I was reasonably confident at half-time. I thought we could chase that down and we started really well there.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut unfortunately we didn\u2019t give ourselves a chance execution-wise and we missed the mark with our contact and the physical battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, instead of looking at the negatives, Seibold admitted that he won\u2019t panic and believes his side could make a run to the finals as they head into the bye week before facing off against former skipper Daly Cherry-Evans and the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n

They currently sit winless at the bottom of the table, alongside the Broncos, Cowboys and Dragons, with two losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing we won\u2019t do is panic or change our schedule. We\u2019re very well prepared and well planned. I\u2019ve been 0-2 before and been the top-four side as a coach,\u201d Seibold added.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, the really good teams in the competition win at 60%, the good teams win at 50% and so there\u2019s another 22 games to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to show far more improvement than what we showed today but I\u2019ve got a lot of faith in the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat hasn\u2019t changed but we were well-beaten so you\u2019ve got to know that and work out why but we\u2019ll do that tomorrow (with a).<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we\u2019ll give the players the RLPA days off for three days and then we\u2019ll come back in and get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Seibold is confident that the Manly Sea Eagles will be able to turn around their season and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-541696","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\/541696","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=541696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}