{"id":571150,"date":"2026-03-29T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:12:13","slug":"sea-eagles-favourite-son-takes-over-after-anthony-seibold-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571150\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Eagles favourite son takes over after Anthony Seibold departs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 29, 2026 \u2014 11:02am<\/p>\n

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Kieran Foran wandered onto 4 Pines Park at 10.30am on Sunday and laid out the plastic cones and poles for training, just like he would have last week when he was still an assistant coach.<\/p>\n

It seems old habits die hard.<\/p>\n

\"KieranKieran Forans lays out training markers at 4 Pines Park on Sunday.Max Mason-Hubers<\/p>\n

The New Zealand international, who only ended his playing career at the end of 2025, had become a household name on the same patch of turf on Sydney\u2019s northern beaches earlier in his career before returning late last year to begin his journey as a coach as part of Anthony Seibold\u2019s Sea Eagles staff.<\/p>\n

Four months later, after Seibold was sacked, he is now in charge.<\/p>\n

Foran\u2019s meteoric rise to NRL head coach was confirmed when he accepted the Manly job<\/a> on an interim basis in a phone call from Sea Eagles chairman Scott Penn and chief executive Jason King on Friday night.<\/p>\n

He was rolled out for the cameras on Saturday morning alongside Penn and King, and another 24 hours later, it was time to get down to business at Manly\u2019s traditional home.<\/p>\n

\"KieranKieran Foran prepares for his first session as Manly coach on Sunday.Max Mason-Hubers<\/p>\n

Foran and assistant coach Jim Dymock were locked in a lengthy conversation in the middle of the formerly named Brookvale Oval for about 30 minutes before the players arrived at the tunnel at the northern end of the ground to join them.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot everyone is here. Do you want us to come out or do you want us to wait and come out all together,\u201d veteran forward Jake Trbojevic yelled.<\/p>\n

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When the full squad made their way onto the field soon after, they were in high spirits on a warm, bright day, their unwanted 0-3 record set aside.<\/p>\n

It was the third of those defeats, against Foran\u2019s former halves partner Daly Cherry-Evans and his Sydney Roosters last Thursday night, that sealed Seibold\u2019s fate, the coach sent on his way only three matches into a two-year contract extension.<\/a><\/p>\n

Foran\u2019s unlikely promotion is a fresh start for Manly, but the road ahead will not be easy.<\/p>\n

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\"ChrisChris Barrett<\/a> is a senior sports reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a former South-East Asia correspondent for the Herald and The Age.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026 \u2014 11:02am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-571150","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\/571150","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=571150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}