{"id":579284,"date":"2026-04-01T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:50:12","slug":"nrl-news-2026-kieran-foran-as-manly-sea-eagles-coach-brad-fittler-exclusive-comments-ahead-of-dolphins-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579284\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Kieran Foran as Manly Sea Eagles coach; Brad Fittler EXCLUSIVE comments ahead of Dolphins game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Fittler<\/a> has delivered some coaching advice to Kieran Foran<\/a> as he prepares for his first match as Manly Sea Eagles boss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Foran has slipped into the interim role after Anthony Seibold’s axing<\/a> despite only being new to his assistant coach position, having retired from playing just last year.<\/p>\n

Fittler was in a similar position to Foran almost two decades ago in 2007.<\/p>\n

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Having retired from playing at the Roosters three years earlier, he became head coach after Chris Anderson quit following a 56-0 loss to Manly.<\/p>\n

The Roosters legend’s takeover came midway through the season and led to an unbeaten run of five matches.<\/p>\n

Foran’s run at Manly will start with three away matches against the Dolphins, Dragons and Cowboys which Fittler believes could be the ideal way to start.<\/p>\n

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Kieran Foran speaks to media.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“It gives you a chance though to find your feet, being away and being with the team,” he said on Wide World of Sports’ Freddy & The Eighth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When I first got the job, mine was very similar, it was right after a Manly-Roosters game, the Roosters got pumped and they moved Chris Anderson on and I went in the week after.<\/p>\n

“We had a camp in Kiama and that worked unbelievably. It just gave us a chance to go down, refocus, start again and off we went. So I think the actual fact he’s got a couple of away games and can travel will be good.”<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Fittler did warn Foran there’s a lot of head noise to come.<\/p>\n

“Your brain won’t stop,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Brad Fittler.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“When you’re the assistant you can go home and slow down and deliberately tell yourself what you want to think about at training or talk to a player about, but outside that it will go away and you can get on with your life.<\/p>\n

“When you’re the head coach there’s none of that, you don’t get your life back. You’re constantly churning through (thoughts) … that’ll be the thing he notices, when you’re lying down in bed at night your brain is constant.<\/p>\n

“But it’s exciting, it’s a great job but it’s hard, it pulls your body apart.”<\/p>\n

Foran’s Sea Eagles face the Dolphins on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Fittler has delivered some coaching advice to Kieran Foran as he prepares for his first match as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-579284","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\/579284","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=579284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}