{"id":564746,"date":"2026-03-26T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564746\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:13:12","slug":"michael-maguire-press-conference-after-ben-teo-quits-brisbane-broncos-payne-haas-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564746\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire press conference after Ben Te\u2019o quits, Brisbane Broncos, Payne Haas contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Maguire\u2019s patience and restraint was tested on Thursday morning as the Broncos coach was grilled by journalists in the wake of assistant Ben Te\u2019o\u2019s shock exit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Broncos chief executive Dave Donaghy confirmed<\/a> the South Sydney 2014 premiership winner and former Broncos forward handed in his resignation earlier in the week, with multiple reports suggesting it came after a disagreement with coach Maguire<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Specifically, Code Sports reported Maguire and Te\u2019o had a disagreement over defensive tactics prior to Brisbane\u2019s 18-14 comeback win over the Storm. <\/p>\n

The club\u2019s decision to block Te\u2019o from taking on a role with Billy Slater in the Origin arena is also said to have played a role. <\/p>\n

Maguire was questioned on that and more by journalists on Thursday and didn\u2019t offer much, instead opting to \u201cstick to my line\u201d as he continually referenced the team\u2019s impressive win over Melbourne and the need to build on that performance on Friday against the Dolphins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a busy week. Obviously things that I guess you don\u2019t expect to happen,\u201d Maguire said in response to the first question on the matter. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to deal through those and you\u2019ve got to remember you\u2019re dealing with people. That\u2019s the important part here and obviously we\u2019ve got to move forward because we\u2019ve got a big game (on Friday). <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll talk a lot about how important this game is because I felt our second half against Melbourne was the team that I know and I think the team that everyone\u2019s talking about and the reasons why we have these conversations is that they\u2019re able to get out and play to where we know they can and so it was really nice to see the boys in that space. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to back it up now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When asked exactly what he and Te\u2019o disagreed on, Maguire said he was \u201cnot going to go into too much conversation\u201d on the subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, he submitted his resignation and now we\u2019ve taken that. And that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to talk about,\u201d Maguire added.<\/p>\n

He stayed true to that promise throughout the press conference no matter how much journalists prodded for more details, with one reporter asking him directly if he struggles to take advice from his assistants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take advice from many people,\u201d Maguire replied, before making an \u201chonest\u201d coaching admission which stands in contrast to the perception people have of him being controlling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually really enjoy taking advice from people. I probably do less coaching now than I ever have, to be honest. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a young coach, you\u2019re fairly full on and people have probably spoken about that over my journey as a coach but through the journey where I\u2019m at at the moment, I enjoy bringing staff on and people on. So at this present moment, we\u2019ve got to move through into what we face tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That same reporter later went directly in on the fact the Broncos will now be without both Te\u2019o and superstar prop Payne Haas at the end of the year, flatly asking Maguire: \u201cWhat is going on? Is something wrong?\u201d.<\/p>\n

But again, to his credit, Maguire didn\u2019t bite.<\/p>\n

Instead, he pointed to last week\u2019s win against the Storm as proof the club is far from in crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the performance that I saw last Friday pretty well determines how I believe you look at a football team,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey dug in for each other. They supported each other. Payne Haas came out after halftime when I guess he probably didn\u2019t need to. But it was incredible. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo it says a lot about where they\u2019re at at the moment. And look, things go on in any organisation. But what we\u2019ve got to recognise is that we go tomorrow night and we play the way we can. We\u2019ll give ourselves a great night. And that\u2019s what we need to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maguire said the club is \u201cnot in a rush\u201d to hire a replacement for Te\u2019o, again repeating that all they are focusing on at the moment is the Dolphins on Friday night, and had a similar message when asked how big a loss Te\u2019o would be for the playing group.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m going to keep going back to in this conversation, because we\u2019re still working through things, is that we\u2019ve got a really important game tomorrow night,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone plays a part. We\u2019re working through a situation now and we\u2019ve got to make sure that everything\u2019s about what we need to do and perform tomorrow. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe found our game against Melbourne. To watch the players work hard and be resilient through periods of that game was something there that, well, I believe, is a reflection of my group of players and our group of players. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m going to respect that. These guys have got a focus now and that\u2019s our next job.\u201d <\/p>\n

Overall, even if he continued to dodge any questions about Te\u2019o, Maguire was polite considering the circumstances as he was later asked about reports the club had blocked Te\u2019o from an Origin coaching opportunity and if their relationship had become \u201cunrepairable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to stick to my line here,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do apologise if you want more, but we\u2019ve got a playing group in there. I\u2019ve got a staff in there. We\u2019ve got a really important game tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Broncos face the Dolphins in the Battle of Brisbane on Friday night, with Selwyn Cobbo playing his former teammates for the first time while Haas (shoulder) is unavailable for the defending premiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire\u2019s patience and restraint was tested on Thursday morning as the Broncos coach was grilled by journalists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-564746","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\/564746","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=564746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}