{"id":591085,"date":"2026-04-07T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:06:29","slug":"nrl-news-2026-brisbane-broncos-coach-michael-maguire-on-criticism-of-training-methods-from-gorden-tallis-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591085\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026, Brisbane Broncos coach Michael Maguire on criticism of training methods from Gorden Tallis and others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time NRL<\/a> premiership coach Michael Maguire<\/a> says he simply laughs off criticism of his training methods now.<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old is one of the most accomplished coaches in the modern game, having won NRL titles with the Rabbitohs (2014) and Broncos<\/a> (2025) as well as a Pacific Championship with New Zealand and a State of Origin series with the NSW Blues.<\/p>\n

But despite all his success, critics continue to question his methods which some say push his players to the point of exhaustion.<\/p>\n

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He copped it earlier this season when the Broncos lost the World Club Challenge and then their opening two games of the NRL campaign.<\/p>\n

Maguire was also blamed for superstar prop Payne Haas quitting the club to join South Sydney from next year.<\/p>\n

“I actually laugh about it, to be honest,” he told Nine’s 100% Footy on Monday night.<\/p>\n

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Broncos coach Michael Maguire on 100% Footy.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“Any team that’s playing well at the moment, they all talk about how hard they train. So I don’t see how that’s different to what we’re meant to be doing, so I actually do laugh about it.<\/p>\n

“The one thing I know is I’ve got a group of players and leaders who actually love what we’re doing, and when you’ve got that going on internally the external doesn’t really mean too much.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate our fans and they appreciate what our players are doing, so that’s the really important stuff.<\/p>\n

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

“The outside noise, I’ve been doing it for a fair while now, and it just comes as part of the job.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing, isn’t it? But that’s out game, it’s what makes it special and pretty crazy at times. But I’ve got a group that’s rock solid and I love coaching them.”<\/p>\n

Maguire won Brisbane its first NRL premiership since 2006 last year in just his first season in charge of the Broncos.<\/p>\n

But he has already had to deal with constant criticism, mainly from Broncos legend Gorden Tallis who has a chip on his shoulder about Maguire replacing his close friend Kevin Walters in the job<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maguire has been a head coach for well over a decade and says he is now accustom to the criticism.<\/p>\n

“It’s an interesting ride, this coaching game,” Maguire said.<\/p>\n

“The one thing I always love is the squad that I have, and what we’re doing at training, that gives me the details of what is really going on. I guess the external world will always have their opinions.<\/p>\n

“What I get to see each day at work, at training, is how the guys apply themselves.<\/p>\n

“I was always confident the boys were going to get through that, it was just a matter of putting our heads down and doing the work and now we’re starting to get the rewards off the back of that.”<\/p>\n

The Broncos have won three games on the trot<\/a>, and next face the Cowboys in a Friday night Queensland derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time NRL premiership coach Michael Maguire says he simply laughs off criticism of his training methods now. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-591085","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\/591085","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=591085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}