{"id":577474,"date":"2026-04-01T01:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:21:14","slug":"jake-trbojevic-breaks-silence-on-sacking-of-anthony-seibold-appointment-of-kieran-foran-playing-against-daly-cherry-evans-nrl-360-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577474\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Trbojevic breaks silence on sacking of Anthony Seibold, appointment of Kieran Foran, playing against Daly Cherry-Evans, nrl 360, nrl news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly Sea Eagles, veteran Jake Trbojevic has broken his silence on the sacking of Anthony Seibold<\/a>, revealing the \u201cshock\u201d reaction among the playing group.<\/p>\n

Trbojevic addressed the decision for the first time since Seibold became the fifth coach to be sacked under owner Scott Penn, <\/p>\n

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The sacking led to reports of a rift between Seibold and the veteran forward.<\/a><\/p>\n

Veteran journalist Ben Dobbin reported on on Triple M that the veteran forward had a fractured relationship with his former coach, citing a lack of communication between the pair.<\/p>\n

Trbojevic, however, stated he had \u201cempathy\u201d towards his former coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a coach gets moved on in particular mid-season its a bit of shock around the group, a bit of uncertainty,\u201d Trbojevic said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you\u2019ve got a little bit of empathy as well. The way you look at it from the club\u2019s perspective, the way we\u2019ve performed in the first three games has been very disappointing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThree games at home (too), it\u2019s pretty hard to take from such a proud club so they obviously had to make a tough decision and we\u2019re all behind Foz. <\/p>\n

\u201cA champion player for our club and a life member so we\u2019re all going to get behind him and support him and hopefully we can turn this around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kieran Foran has been named to replace Seibold on an interim basis, while Matt Ballin and Michael Ennis headline the candidates for the head coaching job for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

Having previously played alongside Foran at the club, Trbojevic said the playing group will try to implement his \u201cpassion\u201d as they look to record their first win of the season this week against the Dolphins on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I speak for a lot of people when I say he\u2019s one of the greatest players to play alongside,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust the way he goes after the game, he\u2019s passion and he brings that to Manly. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows the club, so if we can take any of his passion and competitiveness into our squad, it’s hopefully going to help us turn this around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, he also discussed last week\u2019s match, which saw him go up against former teammate Daly Cherry-Evans for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they succumbed to defeat in front of a red-hot, rowdy crowd at 4 Pines Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was funny. Every time he got the ball, they booed. The crowd was just into him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were relentless the whole night; it was actually funny.<\/p>\n

\u201c I think for someone who has played 352 games for our club it was a bit daunting but obviously he\u2019s great professional and kicked us off the park. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole spectacle was good fun from the crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Sea Eagles, veteran Jake Trbojevic has broken his silence on the sacking of Anthony Seibold, revealing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-577474","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\/577474","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=577474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}