after a heated clash regarding Broncos skipper Adam Reynolds back in March.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt comes with being the Broncos. They are the biggest team,\u201d Tallis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve written articles about them yourself. You\u2019ve been unfair. Would you say that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there have been times that given their resources, their gravitas that they have been underachievers. No doubt about that,\u201d Badel replied.<\/p>\n
Badel compared the coaching record of Maguire to a few other head coaches around the league.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that Kristian Woolf (Dolphins), Cameron Ciraldo (Bulldogs) and Wayne Bennett (Rabbitohs) have all had less wins since the start of last season, but those coaches aren\u2019t under pressure. <\/p>\n
The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Dave Riccio countered though, singing a similar tune to Tallis.<\/p>\n
“He at least has one eye on it!” | 04:45<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no comparison to the Bulldogs and Rabbitohs. This is the club who boast about being the biggest sporting club in the country and I want them to boast about it. It\u2019s wonderful for the game,\u201d Riccio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re the defending premiers but at the start of the season, the world\u2019s best front rower (Payne Haas) says he wants to leave, the assistant coach (Ben Te\u2019o) up and leaves in the early rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re on the verge of missing the finals. It\u2019s very rare that the premiers are on the verge of missing the finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny scrutiny is justified. They\u2019ve been inconsistent, they\u2019ve got a star-studded roster and what they have at their disposal compared to the smaller clubs in Sydney who are outachieving them, well there\u2019s no suggestion at all that you could call the coverage disgraceful. It\u2019s warranted. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not wishing Michael Maguire out of the club. There\u2019s no way I\u2019d sack him either but to suggest the scrutiny is over the top and disgraceful, I couldn\u2019t disagree more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maguire signed a three-year deal when joining the Broncos which runs out at the end of next season.<\/p>\n
Despite Brisbane\u2019s premiership hangover, reports circulated last week that the club were discussing an extension with Maguire.<\/p>\n
Badel was asked about whether the prospect of a new deal is real.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes it is. Absolutely it is,\u201d Badel replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to be a test for the Broncos to see where they put their money where their mouth is as they gave Kevvie an extension and then they sacked him so I think if they\u2019re going to give him an extenstion, it\u2019s got to be in good faith.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they will give him an extension. It won\u2019t be this year but by the start of next season, they\u2019ll have a definitive answer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid reports the Broncos are set to offer Michael Maguire a new extension, one pundit has labelled the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-814303","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\/814303","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=814303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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