{"id":563617,"date":"2026-03-25T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:41:24","slug":"broncos-captain-adam-reynolds-in-the-dark-over-ben-teo-exit-michael-maguire-argument-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563617\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos captain Adam Reynolds in the dark over Ben Te’o exit, Michael Maguire argument, coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos<\/a> captain Adam Reynolds<\/a> has revealed he still doesn’t know what went down between Michael Maguire<\/a> and Ben Te’o<\/a> that led to the latter’s resignation.<\/p>\n

Te’o sent shockwaves through Red Hill this week when he quit his assistant coaching role<\/a> just three rounds into the side’s premiership defence.<\/p>\n

Reports surfaced on Tuesday morning about a heated argument between Maguire and his understudy prior to the win against Melbourne, but details have remained scarce.<\/p>\n

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His departure has left a gaping hole in Brisbane’s staff as the former State of Origin forward was overseeing the defence as well as acting as the blue-shirted on-field trainer.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Triple M on Wednesday afternoon, Reynolds was asked about the situation but was unable to delve into the issues between Maguire and Te’o.<\/p>\n

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Adam Reynolds has reacted to Ben Te’o quitting the Broncos.\u00a0Triple M\/Getty<\/p>\n

“He’s a wonderful coach, a lot of the success we had last season is due to Ben,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We don’t know exactly what went on. I obviously didn’t travel to Melbourne [due to injury] and from what I’ve heard, there were lengthy discussions about certain processes and things – but that happens every day at training.<\/p>\n

“No doubt discussions can become heated at times, but I don’t see that as anything out of the ordinary. I’m still a bit shocked, I don’t know exactly what went on.<\/p>\n

“Obviously it’s a huge loss, he’s a big part of our squad. He’s a big reason why our defence is the way it is and he’s brought a lot of great things to the club.”<\/p>\n

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Reynolds, Te’o and Maguire have a relationship dating back longer than a decade, having worked closely together in South Sydney’s drought-breaking 2014 premiership.<\/p>\n

While the spat between the two coaches has led to a messy exit, Reynolds had nothing but praise for Te’o and spoke about last year’s bonding session at a Manly pub that rescued the Broncos’ season after a rocky start.<\/p>\n

“At the time, we weren’t playing well as a team,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We looked at that and the idea from Benny to get together as a team and forget about football for a moment and connect together as a group.<\/p>\n

“Off the back of that, we went on a bit of a run and kick-started our season.<\/p>\n

“It’s not just the coaching aspect of football that’s important, it’s about understanding the individuals and what certain individuals or a group of men may be going through at the time and he was really good at recognising that.<\/p>\n

“Still a bit in shock, he’s a great coach and no doubt will be a great coach in the future.”<\/p>\n

Te’o has been linked with Billy Slater’s Queensland staff – something the Broncos have confirmed they blocked before his exit<\/a> – as well as the Gold Coast Titans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos captain Adam Reynolds has revealed he still doesn’t know what went down between Michael Maguire and Ben…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-563617","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\/563617","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=563617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}