Conceding their fifth straight loss on Saturday night to the Gold Coast Titans, Maguire insisted that his squad is \u201cbloody trying\u201d and refused to question his side\u2019s commitment.<\/p>\n
WHAT’S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n After producing an abysmal showing last week against the St George Illawarra Dragons, Maguire praised the club\u2019s response, even though they weren\u2019t able to get the win against their interstate rivals.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re bloody trying. I\u2019ve got a group that\u2019s trying hard it just things aren\u2019t clicking for us at time,\u201d Maguire said post-match.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had two tries in the first half bounce away and I can\u2019t fault the effort the players are putting in. <\/p>\n \u201cLast week we were where we needed to be but this week they turned up training and they had a red-hot crack to make sure we were prepared and ready to go. <\/p>\n \u201cYou make your own joy in our game and we\u2019ve got parts of our game that we just need to get better at.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s players there who have played a few games like Preston Riki. <\/p>\n \u201cHe came in and he actually performed really well tonight, the way he went about things. But it\u2019s about getting the results, we all know that.\u201d<\/p>\n Kini MAGIC seals dramatic late victory | 00:47<\/p>\n Although Maguire defended his side\u2019s performance, he did admit that their form is a concern at the moment, having failed to register a win in their past five matches and finding themselves falling down the NRL ladder.<\/p>\n Sitting in 12th place – and potentially 13th if the Bulldogs win on Monday against the Eels – they will now face the Rabbitohs, Roosters and Cronulla Sharks over the next month.<\/p>\n \u201cLosing\u2019s always a concern. We obviously want to turn up and win. That\u2019s why we\u2019re here. We\u2019ve got a club that\u2019s got an expectation around that,\u201d Maguire continued.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the moment we\u2019re just not being able to dig those out. I thought tonight with the way they went around their game, compared to where we were last week. <\/p>\n \u201cLast week was disappointing. This week, we had a red-hot crack. It went right to the death and that\u2019s what the NRL is, every team can win. <\/p>\n \u201cI know you\u2019re talking about teams that are down the bottom of the ladder but it\u2019s about being able to turn up and make sure that you\u2019ve got to be at your best. That\u2019s what the game demands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Broncos coach Michael Maguire has defended his club\u2019s performance despite back-to-back defeats against arguably the two worst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-719101","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\/719101","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=719101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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