Seibold paid the price for Manly\u2019s 0-3 start to the season, with the club sacking him on Friday night just a few games into what was effectively a new two-year deal.<\/p>\n
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The writing was on the wall for the veteran coach given Manly had lost all three games at home, with fans chanting \u201cSeibold out\u201d during Thursday night\u2019s loss to the Roosters.<\/p>\n
Sacking a coach so early in the season gives the club enough time to turn things around, but Fogarty said it was too early to get rid of someone given it\u2019s the players who make errors and miss tackles. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s above my pay grade, but if I was the owner of an organisation, I\u2019d like to see him have an opportunity to turn it around,\u201d Fogarty said on Monday while Sea Eagles chief executive and club legend Jason King stood a few metres away. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not out there missing tackles or knocking the ball on and stuff like that, so us as a playing group, we know we have to be better because that\u2019s just not the Manly standard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve probably been underperforming, especially the Newcastle game. We were so far off what we know we have here as a squad, and as a player, you\u2019ve got to own that. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that we let our coach down and now ultimately he\u2019s not here anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Get all the latest NRL news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n Foran on appointment as Manly head coach | 22:33<\/p>\n Like many of his teammates, Fogarty reached out to Seibold over the weekend to check on his welfare, with the halfback revealing his former coach played a key role in getting him to sign with the club. <\/p>\n \u201cHis phone would have been blowing up, but I got my wife to message his wife to see if he\u2019d appreciate a message or if he wanted to be left alone. She said he would, so I sent him a message just to say thanks,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s the one that gave me the contract to continue in the NRL at my age, so I\u2019ve got to be grateful for that. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a blast since I\u2019ve moved here. I\u2019ve been enjoying coming into training each and every day, and obviously he\u2019s not here anymore, so I\u2019ve got to give a bit of sympathy there to \u2018Seibs\u2019 as well because it\u2019s pretty undeserving, I think.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a great conversation when I did come up last year, and he was the reason why I joined the club. <\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, three games haven\u2019t gone our way and he\u2019s had to wear that, so we can\u2019t control that. It is disappointing from my end because he was the one that got me here, but life goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n Manly players reacted to the news.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n It\u2019s been a turbulent start to the captaincy for Trbojevic, who is searching for his first win of the season and now has to start fresh with a new coach, albeit someone he knows very well in Kieran Foran.<\/p>\n Trbojevic sat next to Seibold at the press conference following the Roosters loss and was told the following day by King that his days as coach were over. <\/p>\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t playing the footy we want to, and I feel for Seibs,\u201d he said, with teammate Reuben Garrick declaring the decision a \u201cline in the sand moment\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cAs a playing group, we feel partly responsible for where we are sitting and for that decision to be made, so I\u2019m disappointed.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t (see it coming) but you don\u2019t really try and read into the outside noise. Obviously, there was noise there, but we just really wanted to focus on winning football games and making that noise go away. Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely feel responsible and accountable for where we sit and for the outcome happening with Seibs.<\/p>\n \u201c(I called him over the weekend) and it was just an apology to a degree, letting him know that I\u2019m sorry as a playing group that we couldn\u2019t put in the performances that we wanted to for him, the club, and for everyone, and that this is the outcome. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd a thank you for the past 3\u00bd years and the work he\u2019s put in, not only for myself but for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n TEAM TIPS: Haas racing clock amid Broncos crisis; Eels No.1 void as Souths star back<\/a><\/p>\n