Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nFoxsports.com.au\u2019s Paul Crawley said the Sea Eagles should\u2019ve fired Seibold after the conclusion of last season but agreed with Riccio that Manly have put Foran in a tough position, also noting the club\u2019s history of mismanagement. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re right Dave, that they\u2019ve throw in the deep end because right now it is probably the right decision for them but it\u2019s the wrong decision because it shows no foresight which has been a problem for ages,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
While Foran will steer the ship until the end of the season, there are a number of candidates in consideration for the full-time gig.<\/p>\n
Foran will be in the running if he\u2019s able to turn the Sea Eagles\u2019 season around. Former Eels mentor Brad Arthur, Broncos assistant and Manly legend Matt Ballin and Dragons assistant Mick Ennis are the other names that have been floated.<\/p>\n
Anasta revealed that Arthur has given the Sea Eagles a June 30 deadline but Crawley thinks the 51-year-old coach of Super League\u2019s Leeds Rhinos should be the favourite to win the Manly job, even tossing up an intriguing idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me you have Matt Ballin, Mick Ennis and you\u2019ve got Brad Arthur and now Kieran Foran and I you could make a case for any of those guys. My thoughts for Arthur, in the situation they are in at the moment, he could pick a club up off the canvas. He did it at the Eels,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat club needs experience but I would almost marry him in a tag-team situation with Kieran Foran. I believe Foran in time, if given the opportunity to do a apprenticeship, could become a good coach and lead Manly into the next 10-15 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives Arthur a chance to come back from Leeds and give him a three-year deal and Manly stability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reaction to Kieran Foran\u2019s shock appointment as Manly interim coach has mostly been positive, but one expert disagrees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,282472,282474,17343,30088,1119,763,6086,4484,4601,50875,275382,761,762,1736,158,677,11396,279839,282473,282475,85,14869],"class_list":["post-575999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brain-dead-move","tag-coaching-experience","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-david-riccio","tag-football-club","tag-fox-league","tag-interim-coach","tag-kieran-foran","tag-manly-sea-eagles","tag-matt-ballin","tag-mick-ennis","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-zealand","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-paul-crawley","tag-rookie-assistant","tag-shock-appointment","tag-shock-coaching-call","tag-sports","tag-super-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575999","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=575999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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