Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold insists he\u2019s still the right man to lead the club after fans turned on the team following their third-straight defeat at home on an emotional night that saw Manly legend Daly Cherry-Evans run out for the Roosters.<\/p>\n
Fed up fans were heard chanting \u201cSeibold out\u201d with about five minutes to go on Thursday night with Manly slumping to an 0-3 start to the season after going down 33-16 at 4 Pines Park. <\/p>\n
Another big crowd turned up despite a massive storm about 90 minutes before kick-off and were vociferous early on as they booed Cherry-Evans every time he touched the ball.<\/p>\n
But their frustration turned towards Seibold by the end of the night, with the Manly coach signing a new deal in late 2024 that has him under contract until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell I can\u2019t control that narrative,\u201d he said after the game, adamant he didn\u2019t hear the boos and chants.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly Scott (Manly chairman and owner Scott Penn) and the ownership group can control that, so there\u2019s no point me wasting any energy or time on that. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve invested a lot of time in the club over the last three and a bit years and made a lot of sacrifice with my time, but if I\u2019m not the right person, I\u2019m sure Scott will tell me. <\/p>\n
\u201cI still believe that we can do something together as a group so I haven\u2019t really put any thought into it. I\u2019m three games into a two-year extension, so it hasn\u2019t sort of been a focus for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t hear the fans, but what do you want me to do? <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel I\u2019ve got a group there that can win games of footy and they fight hard. Like if we didn\u2019t have any fight in us we would have got towelled up by 60 points with those stats. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t control that narrative, so there\u2019s no point wasting my time on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles actually led at half-time but conceded three quick tries and were never able to assert any territorial dominance against the Roosters who were disciplined with and without the ball. <\/p>\n
The fans cheered loudly when young giant Simione Laiafi came off the bench, and there are growing calls for Seibold to inject more youth like playmaker Joey Walsh into the side. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe led 10-8 at half-time against a team that many predicted to be one of the two or three teams that are premiership favourites,\u201d Seibold said. <\/p>\n
\u201cLeading 10-8 with only 40 per cent of the footy, we fought hard. Second half we had a penalty try against us and a sin bin against us. So there\u2019s 12 points there and then two bad defensive reads on our last tackles. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo there are so many positive things tonight, but one thing I know is you\u2019ve got to keep cohesion in your group. It was good to see (Laiafi) get on the field, which is great. He\u2019s got a great future but he\u2019s got to build up his minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles take on the Dolphins next week as pressure continues to mount on their coach, and things won\u2019t get easier with forward Ethan Bullemor set to be unavailable after he injured his Achilles before kick-off. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was warming up and he was about to go on, and when he was warming up to go on, he hurt his Achilles. That sort of messed around a little bit with our interchange plan,\u201d his coach said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure (how bad it is) so I\u2019d have to go speak to the medical staff. I mean it\u2019s certainly not a rupture, but there\u2019s a fair bit of pain there. He wasn\u2019t able to go on and play, so that doesn\u2019t sort of sound great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold insists he\u2019s still the right man to lead the club after fans turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[8082,64,63,1650,761,762,158,1655,9120,278481,4523,85],"class_list":["post-565950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-anthony-seibold","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coaches","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-pressure","tag-roosters","tag-round-four","tag-sea-eagles","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565950","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=565950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}