{"id":577814,"date":"2026-04-01T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:53:11","slug":"kieran-foran-says-anthony-seibold-has-not-return-phone-call-after-sea-eagles-sacking-press-conference-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577814\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieran Foran says Anthony Seibold has not return phone call after Sea Eagles sacking, press conference, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kieran Foran says he has not been able to get in touch with former Manly Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold after his brutal sacking just three games into the season. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Foran, 35, was appointed interim head coach for the remainder of the year after the club last Friday axed Seibold, who has held the top job at Manly since 2023. <\/p>\n

Manly have had a disastrous start to the season with three straight losses at home, including a golden point loss to Canberra, being out-enthused by an injury ravaged Newcastle, and a thrashing at the hands of Daly Cherry-Evans led Roosters side. <\/p>\n

Ahead of his first game helming the Sea Eagles, Foran \u2013 who was an assistant coach under Sielbold this season \u2013 told reporters he has not been able to get in touch with his predecessor, despite calling him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had a conversation with Anthony as of yet,\u201d Foran said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI gave him a call once I saw the news (of Seibold\u2019s sacking) on Friday evening.\u201d <\/p>\n

Foran said he feels for Seibold, who brought the Manly legend on as an assistant coach, but said he was backing the club\u2019s decision to part ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthony has been amazing for me and my coaching development early on in this path,\u201d Foran said. <\/p>\n

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Ex-Manly Warringah Sea Eagles head coach Anthony Seibold. Picture: Cameron Spencer\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gave me an opportunity to come back to Manly, I thoroughly enjoyed working under him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been nothing but a pleasure to learn under, to work under. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling for him for sure, it\u2019s only natural to feel for someone who puts a lot of effort into what they do. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the job for the club to make those decisions, and they\u2019ve made it and now we just get on with it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have got the right to make the decisions that they feel is in the best interest of the club and you get on and you back it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Seibold had a spotty record as Manly coach, winning 37 of his 77 games and making just one finals series. <\/p>\n

His exit was premature given the club had extended his contract through to the end of 2027. <\/p>\n

Foran will have the task of getting the club he won a premiership with as a player in 2011 their first win of the year on Thursday when Manly take on the Dolphins at Kayo Stadium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kieran Foran says he has not been able to get in touch with former Manly Sea Eagles coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[8082,24164,64,63,689,283451,283452,283450,4430,13213,2105,65196,83152,4484,4601,761,762,673,10668,158,677,85],"class_list":["post-577814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-anthony-seibold","tag-assistant-coach","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bold-plot","tag-classy-message","tag-coaching-development","tag-daly-cherry-evans","tag-finals-series","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-golden-point-loss","tag-interim-head-coach","tag-kieran-foran","tag-manly-sea-eagles","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-newcastle","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577814","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=577814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}