{"id":775725,"date":"2026-07-03T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:22:11","slug":"nrl-2026-michael-maguire-implies-josiah-karapani-is-on-final-chance-what-did-he-say-brisbane-broncos-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775725\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Michael Maguire implies Josiah Karapani is on final chance, what did he say, Brisbane Broncos, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broncos coach Michael Maguire has refused to reveal whether Josiah Karapani is on his last chance with the club following the winger\u2019s second off-field indiscretion.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-josiah-karapani-dropped-by-brisbane-broncos-for-drink-driving-traffic-offences-details-police-statement\/news-story\/93b265bf404968d7dc0c7d49866873d7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Karapani was allegedly caught drink driving, speeding and driving an unregistered vehicle last Sunday morning. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He was dropped for Saturday night\u2019s clash with Cronulla and it\u2019s unknown how long he\u2019ll be kept out of the side. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Karapani\u2019s second brush with police this year. <\/p>\n<p>In April, he received a $1000 fine for being a public nuisance at a Brisbane nightspot.<\/p>\n<p>Facing the media on Friday morning, Maguire says the club will put their arms around Karapani but implied that the talented winger is on thin ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, he\u2019s disappointed, we\u2019re disappointed. He\u2019s made a mistake,\u201d Maguire said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s part of the family here and we\u2019ll work our way through what you know that that\u2019s going to look like. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe understands that he\u2019s made a mistake, so we\u2019ve just got to work our way through that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A reporter then asked if Karapani was on his last chance with the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna talk around that,\u201d Maguire replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s internal stuff that we talk about but you know we\u2019ve you\u2019ve got a couple of chances in you and he\u2019s obviously crossed the line there so he just needs to make sure now he does the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>TALKING PTS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-talking-points-round-18-preview-opinion-analysis-why-michael-maguire-is-kidding-himself-broncos-problems-joey-walsh-era-begins-at-manly-news-reaction\/news-story\/82ed485ada24e75b15b7ac9ba6c9cd83\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Madge\u2019s \u2018mind games\u2019 aren\u2019t following anyone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRAWLS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-opinion-and-analysis-why-panthers-should-be-filthy-over-off-contract-stars-perth-bears-and-png-chiefs-to-raid-penrith-clint-gutherson-future-at-dragons-jonah-pezet-brisbane-broncos\/news-story\/643bce5c6347a64f4b8a860709bf4eda\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brutal irony in death knell for Panthers; only way Gutho\u2019s denial can end<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brisbane Broncos player Josiah Karapani Picture Brisbane BroncosSource: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n<p>Maguire\u2019s comments follow Ben Hunt\u2019s from earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows he\u2019s in the wrong, but he also knows it\u2019s the second time he\u2019s made that mistake and you can\u2019t keep making those mistakes or you\u2019re gonna find your way out of this club pretty quick,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been another week under the blowtorch for the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Their finals hopes have all been dashed after seven straight losses. They\u2019re set to become the first defending champion in 20 years to miss the eight.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire is keeping the faith though while pointing to couple of things that have gone against the club in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Carrigan fully fit for Origin decider | 01:13<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t say things have fallen apart, we just haven\u2019t had certain things go our way at times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately at the end of the day, we\u2019ve had quite a bit of change among what the group is, whether or not that\u2019s a reason or not. But one thing I do love about this group is that we don\u2019t go into that. It\u2019s whoever runs across the white line<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get to play in front of 40 or 50,000 fans at our games here at Suncorp, and they\u2019re ripping in and they\u2019re going on the ride with us too. You feel it and our players do feel that too. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pretty fortunate that we have a great club and a great supporting base that gets behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos coach Michael Maguire has refused to reveal whether Josiah Karapani is on his last chance with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-775725","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\/775725","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=775725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}