{"id":567912,"date":"2026-03-27T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567912\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:54:09","slug":"michael-maguire-gives-matt-ballin-his-blessing-to-take-manly-sea-eagles-job-brisbane-broncos-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567912\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire gives Matt Ballin his blessing to take Manly Sea Eagles job, Brisbane Broncos press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Maguire has effectively given assistant Matt Ballin his blessing should he be approached by Manly after the club sacked Anthony Seibold <\/a>on Friday night.<\/p>\n

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While the Broncos were reeling earlier in the week after the shock resignation of defensive coach Ben Te\u2019o<\/a>, the defending premiers didn\u2019t let it impact their performance at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

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In fact, they produced their best defensive performance of the season<\/a> to back up last week\u2019s effort against Melbourne and prove they can still rediscover the magic of last year\u2019s premiership run. <\/p>\n

While Maguire said he has not had the chance to speak with Ballin yet, he declared he wants to see every member of his coaching staff \u201cexcel\u201d when asked if he would be prepared to let him take the Sea Eagles job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t even spoke to Matty but I want all my staff to excel in whatever it is that they do and what they want to do,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo those things, if they arise, then we\u2019ll talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he thought Ballin would be able to handle the added responsibility, Maguire said that \u201csometimes you\u2019re not sure whether you are\u201d an NRL coach or not, but added that the Sea Eagles legend is a \u201cgreat human\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd those things come to people that work hard,\u201d Maguire continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s the right time, it\u2019s the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Sea Eagles are expected to appoint an interim coach for the rest of the season, so if Ballin was to get the job it is likely he would only depart the Broncos at the end of the year anyway.<\/p>\n

That would mean he, like skipper Adam Reynolds and prop Payne Haas, could depart in fairytale fashion with a premiership.<\/p>\n

Based on early results this season that looked unlikely, but back-to-back wins have the Broncos building momentum and it is all on the back of their work in defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said after last week\u2019s game I could see the team that I know and what they can achieve,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had to dig pretty deep today because they were coming pretty hard and fast, the Dolphins, but they hung strong. I know it\u2019s inside this group. They work for each other and come up with some special plays.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to show the signs that we\u2019re chasing. I was just really happy with the resilience that each of them showed for each other. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always something there that you can find to work on but the fact that they did the 40 tackles and worked hard right to the death of the game was a special performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Individually, it was a particularly special performance from skipper Adam Reynolds after scathing criticism from club legend Gorden Tallis<\/a> in the wake of the loss to the Eels. <\/p>\n

Reynolds scored a sensational solo try which he credited to Alfie Langer to go with a try assist, while he also forced two dropouts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI saw Alfie in the sheds. He taught me that a couple of years ago,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d seen a little bit of space there, obviously (we had a) game plan throughout the week in certain situations and credit to the coaching staff in IDing those sort of things. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s enjoyable when you see them come to light when you\u2019re out there playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reynolds was even at his clever best at one point earlier in the game when he was ruled to have been obstructed by Connelly Lemuelu in the lead-up to Kodi Nikorima\u2019s potential try.<\/p>\n

Reynolds wasn\u2019t going to get to Nikorima in time, but perfectly played it, prompting Triple M journalist Ben Dobbin to ask him about the \u201cacting class\u201d he put on and the halfback had the perfect reply. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to know the rules,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

While Reynolds missed the Storm game with a rib injury, he said he was \u201cconfident\u201d he would get through Friday\u2019s fixture and coach Maguire was also quick to defend his captain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people that sometimes have their thoughts about what he can and can\u2019t do but what I do know is that he can perform like he did tonight,\u201d Maguire said of Reynolds. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a leadership role that he jumped out there and I could sense that he was coming back and going to get himself into the right frame of mind to play like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire has effectively given assistant Matt Ballin his blessing should he be approached by Manly after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-567912","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\/567912","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=567912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}