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However, during his tenure, he was only able to guide the Sea Eagles to the finals once in four seasons despite having a stacked roster of State of Origin and international representative stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be sacked after round three, but the actual response after the Roosters game, my gut feeling sort of said that something was going to happen,\u201d Seibold said on Channel 7\u2019s The Agenda Setters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to (Manly CEO) Jason King after the game and I just said, look, I feel like there\u2019s a lot of commentary and a lot of noise around my role, the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I felt as though either the club needed to come out and back me and support me or the club needed to make a decision to move me on. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the decision the club made. I said to King, you know, I\u2019m a man, handle it well. And yeah, as I said, my gut sort of told me after the game that potentially they might go that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA – MAY 17: Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold looks on before the start of the round eleven NRL match between Cowboys and Sea Eagles at Queensland Country Bank Stadium, on May 17, 2025, in Townsville, Australia. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt as though, working with Jason, I think he was keen to put his stamp on the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cI do have to say this, like, rather than a long, slow death, I actually respect that it was a quick kill in many respects, so I\u2019ll always remember my time at Manly, although you never want to go through what I had to do at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Continuing to speak on his departure from the club, Seibold admitted that he wouldn\u2019t have done anything different and doesn\u2019t have too many regrets about how his tenure finished up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t do anything different there from a staffing point of view. I feel like our game, you know, would stand up,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I feel like, you know, you can see that the style of play that the guys are playing now, I just feel like we\u2019re a little bit off with the other parts of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t walk away with too many regrets other than, you know, the way that it all finished up. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to still be, you know, coaching the team because they\u2019re a good team and very talented team, as you can see.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Surprisingly, he also opened up on Daly Cherry-Evans\u2019 abrupt decision to sever ties with the club midway through the 2025 season, which many believe derailed the club during that year.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaly couldn\u2019t have been more clear in his conversation with me. Daly told me November 1, 2024, that, you know, he was going to look around and see whether there was an opportunity to continue playing elsewhere,\u201d Seibold said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChez was our captain and I wanted to support our captain. That\u2019s why, you know, I didn\u2019t, you know, drop him from the captaincy. I didn\u2019t drop him to reserve grade.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw the model that Souths did with Adam Reynolds when he had signed for the Broncos, and I thought that was the best thing for our club to keep Chez as our leader. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe won 12 games and when you normally win 12 games and have a positive for and against, nine times out of 10, you make the playoffs. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe won six of our last 10 games with Chez as captain, playing some really good footy. We won our last three games by over 120 points. So we actually finished the season in reasonable shape and that\u2019s why I was so positive about this year. <\/p>\n
NRL 2025 RD13 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles v Brisbane Broncos – Daly Cherry-EvansSource: Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, losing three games at home when, you know, people do expect you to win at home. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to put your hand up, you know, as a head coach, you\u2019re accountable for the performance.<\/p>\n
Asked by Corey Parker if he would entertain the idea of being a head coach in the NRL again, Seibold said he was \u201cnot sure\u201d but he does want to return to the game of rugby league in some capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure, Coz. I\u2019m not sure. Look, I\u2019ve enjoyed the bulk of my time coaching and I\u2019ve had some great experiences,\u201d he elaborated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had some challenging experiences as well. But one thing I feel like I am sold on, I\u2019ve loved rugby league since I was a little boy. <\/p>\n
\u201cI used to ball with the Rocky Brothers up in central Queensland. So, yeah, I love coaching and I want to keep involved in the game in some capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first interview since being terminated by the Manly Sea Eagles after just three rounds into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-664743","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\/664743","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=664743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}