{"id":729837,"date":"2026-06-11T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729837\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:46:14","slug":"nrl-2026-michael-maguire-press-conference-after-brisbane-broncos-loss-premiership-defence-injured-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729837\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Michael Maguire press conference after Brisbane Broncos loss, premiership defence, injured players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Maguire knows people will think he is \u201cmad\u201d, but the Broncos coach has declared the defending premiers are still \u201cwell and truly\u201d alive in the title race. <\/p>\n

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Brisbane\u2019s premiership defence took a massive hit on Thursday night after a comprehensive 48-6 loss to South Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was the Broncos\u2019 sixth loss in a row and leaves Maguire\u2019s men in the bottom four entering next week\u2019s bye.<\/p>\n

While Brisbane won 10 of its last 12 games to secure a top-four berth last year, the Broncos are running out of time to go on a similar run this season.<\/p>\n

A top-four finish already looks out of the picture, with Maguire\u2019s men now facing an uphill battle to earn a spot in the finals. But Maguire is still confident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still well and truly alive,\u201d the Broncos coach said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople would probably think I\u2019m mad. But one thing I do know (is) I\u2019ve got a number of guys that are not on the field at this present moment. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a group we say we\u2019re not going to use that as any sort of excuse or anything like that. But they\u2019ll all come back and there\u2019s a lot of quality there that I know can come back into the team. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a bit of a tough situation at the moment. We\u2019ll get those boys back at some stage and we all know what the team\u2019s capable of doing. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo once they get back and we\u2019ve got to get through this little period now, which is tough for all of us. We don\u2019t like going through it but it can also be the making of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Broncos appeared to lose two more players to injury on Thursday, with both Adam Reynolds and Ezra Mam failing to finish the game while Jordan Riki also appeared to be playing through pain in his return from a foot injury. <\/p>\n

Reynolds said he was only experiencing hamstring tightness and would be fine to play the Roosters after the bye, while Maguire said Mam had an AC joint issue but added he would need to speak to Broncos doctors to get further clarity on the injury. <\/p>\n

Reynolds echoed Maguire\u2019s confidence in Brisbane\u2019s ability to turn its form around once near full-strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of great players in our team. (We\u2019re) just not executing at the moment, but when we do, we know what we\u2019re capable of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know we\u2019ve got a lot of spirit and fight within the group. We\u2019ll have a little break, get away and look to go again and reignite our season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Maguire is expecting the Broncos to hit their stride later in the season, they are obviously against the clock to force their way into the top eight and having a full compliment of players will mean little if they produce an error-prone performance like the one on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t help ourselves,\u201d Maguire admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re putting a lot of pressure on ourselves and that\u2019s obviously coming from the opposition. But there\u2019s obviously areas of our game that we need to be better at. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty simple. We had possession go against us and that comes from ourselves in many occasions. So we need to just need to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire knows people will think he is \u201cmad\u201d, but the Broncos coach has declared the defending premiers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-729837","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\/729837","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=729837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}