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The Sea Eagles have named former Manly playmaker Kieran Foran as their interim head coach for the remainder of the 2026 season after this masthead revealed Anthony Seibold had been sacked on Friday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n Foran, who retired from rugby league last year at the Titans, played nine seasons for the Sea Eagles, first from 2009 to 2015, and again from 2021 to 2022.<\/p>\n He was part of the 2011 premiership team alongside former captain Daly Cherry-Evans, and has also spent time at the Warriors, Eels, Bulldogs and Titans.<\/p>\n The Kiwi international holds a commentating role with Fox Sports and joined as an assistant coach under Seibold in 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cShocked, shocked,\u201d Foran said on Friday night on Fox Sports when asked about Seibold\u2019s sacking. \u201cIt was business as usual for us \u2026 obviously a disappointing loss last night [against the Roosters], we were in there this morning with Seibs, going through the review of last night\u2019s game … and preparing for Sunday\u2019s training.\u201d<\/p>\n The 35-year-old is now tasked with turning the club around following three straight losses to start the season.<\/p>\n Just six months on from his own retirement, the appointment of Foran isn\u2019t too dissimilar to the appointment of Benji Marshall at the Tigers \u2013 also a club legend and premiership winner.<\/p>\n Seibold was sensationally sacked on Friday night less than 24 hours after Manly\u2019s 33-16 loss to the Roosters on Thursday night<\/a>. He was just three games into a new contract with the club, which was meant to run until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n The 2018 Dally M coach of the year needed a fast start after the Sea Eagles missed the finals last year, finishing 10th. However, even by the NRL\u2019s ruthless standards, getting sacked in round four \u2013 the Sea Eagles have also had a bye \u2013 is a shock.<\/p>\n Foran will now join a list of contenders for the head coach role when it comes up at the end of the year, which also includes former Eels coach Brad Arthur, Matt Ballin and Michael Ennis.<\/p>\n More to come.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Kieran](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/64ecfabac9386bdc9dd4cc70484e684563677ed5.jpeg\")
Kieran Foran will take the reins at Manly for the remained of 2026.Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n![\"Former](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a5b19e0941142c35884fd8b0d3b9459c0c5a718b.jpeg\")
Former Manly coach Anthony Seibold who was sacked on Friday night.Sam Mooy<\/p>\n![\"Billie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774476012_913_1f26d30eae26b4882dcc1afb0e0ac232ec55551b.png\")
Billie Eder<\/a> is a sports reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated March 28, 2026 \u2014 9:37am,first published 9:14am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-568900","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\/568900","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=568900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}