Watch every game of every round of the Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n Badel is based in Queensland and is the leading reporter when it comes to the Broncos, whose chances of making the finals and defending their 2025 title will end with one more loss.<\/p>\n Then on Wednesday night\u2019s edition of NRL360, host Braith Anasta asked what The Australian\u2019s Read and The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Michael Carayannis thought of Badel\u2019s criticism.<\/p>\n \u201c(Badel) has labelled your criticism of \u2018Madge\u2019 as disgraceful. He said Sydney journos, so yes, it is you two,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n To which Read replied: \u201cWe\u2019ve both been critical of \u2018Madge\u2019, and I mean, look at the results. Look where they are on the ladder.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at the whispers that constantly come out of that football club, look at Payne Haas leaving, look at Ben Te\u2019o leaving. How can you ignore that?\u201d<\/p>\n Brisbane currently sit in 13th place on the NRL ladder, breaking an eight-game losing streak with an upset victory over the Panthers in their last outing.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, rumblings have consistently been reported throughout the season that players are disgruntled by Maguire\u2019s coaching methods, which are renowned for being tough and intense.<\/p>\n \u201cHow can \u2018Bomber\u2019 (Badel) suggest there aren\u2019t any issues there? How can \u2018Bomber\u2019 suggest it\u2019s disgraceful analysis of that football club? I\u2019d argue his analysis is disgraceful if you want to go down that path… he\u2019s a mouthpiece for them,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n But while Carayannis also gave his opinion, the pair were cut off and Anasta revealed \u201cPeter Badel is on the line\u201d. From there, chaos ensued.<\/p>\n Read the full transcript of the fiery confrontation below!<\/p>\n READ: Madge\u2019s mouthpiece is here, beautiful. Good to see you, Bomber.<\/p>\n BADEL: I\u2019ll say this, in relation to what Ready just said about my analysis being disgraceful. The one thing I will say Ready is I\u2019ve actually got the balls to hold the Broncos accountable. I\u2019ve covered them for 20 years. When they sacked Wayne Bennett in 2018, I called for their board to be sacked. I thought they made the wrong call. When Anthony Seibold took the Broncos to the wooden spoon in 2020, I called for Anthony Seibold to be sacked. He was. I\u2019m never afraid to call the club out if I don\u2019t think they\u2019re charting in the right direction. Now, I would say if you\u2019re so vociferous in your criticism of the Broncos, apply those same scathing, judicious standards to the Sydney clubs. Because you throw grenades from a thousand kilometres away in Sydney at the Broncos, you talk about mutinies, you talk about dressing room revolts. Well, all I\u2019m saying is apply those same standards to the Sydney clubs, five of whom are in the bottom half of the competition at the moment, but you don\u2019t call them out.<\/p>\n CARAYANNIS: Bomber, can I ask you one question. Is all okay in Broncos land? Do you think there\u2019s no issue between some of the players and coach Michael Maguire?<\/p>\n BADEL: Well, I\u2019ll say this, MC. Like Ready just talked about the whispers, quantify and qualify the whispers. We all talk about this speculation, there was talk two weeks ago that Xavier Willison wouldn\u2019t sign with Brisbane because he couldn\u2019t cop Madge. He\u2019s now in talks on a three-year, three million dollar extension with the club. Payne Haas has left the club, yes. James Fisher Harris left the Panthers and said it was family reasons, and everyone waved him goodbye and said what a great servant he was for Penrith. Payne Haas says it\u2019s family reasons that he\u2019s going to Sydney, yet apparently he\u2019s a liar, that he\u2019s really off Madge. So why is there a double standard there in the application? <\/p>\n Get all the latest NRL news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n “Sums up everything wrong with Broncos” | 01:13<\/p>\n READ: You tried to draw a comparison between Brisbane and Parramatta. Did you have Parramatta in your top eight before the season began? I\u2019ll tell you what the answer is no. Brisbane, you had in your top eight, you probably had them winning the comp and you\u2019re trying to draw a line between those two teams. They\u2019ve won the same amount of games this year. Parramatta\u2019s actually had a worse injury record than Brisbane. Yet you\u2019re using Brisbane\u2019s injury record as an excuse, and you\u2019re not allowing Jason Ryles to use it. Yet you yet you regarded Parramatta\u2019s roster as a joke, really. If you consider the you didn\u2019t have them in the top eight before the season began. How can you draw a line between those two teams Bomber?<\/p>\n BADEL: Well, I\u2019ll say two things to that Ready. One, I can draw a line between them if you want, but even I can apply a singular standard. Michael Maguire is one of seven coaches in the history of the game, 116 years, to have won a premiership at more than one club. That\u2019s a very elite club.<\/p>\n READ: That doesn\u2019t mean what he\u2019s doing now… <\/p>\n BADEL: Just wait, just wait…<\/p>\n READ: Just because he\u2019s won a premiership previously, admittedly only months ago, doesn\u2019t mean that things are all going swimmingly now. We\u2019ve seen premiership-winning coaches sacked before. You mentioned Wayne Bennett, he\u2019s won seven comps, he got rissoled. It happens, just because you win a comp doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re impervious to being sacked.<\/p>\n BADEL: Hold on, well don\u2019t cut me off Ready. You\u2019ve asked me to explain things, I\u2019m going to. Michael Maguire is only one of seven coaches in history to have won multiple premierships at different clubs. He\u2019s won an Origin series, he\u2019s won a Test series, he\u2019s won a premiership at Brisbane in his first season. He broke their 19-year premiership drought. Wayne Bennett came back and couldn\u2019t do it, Anthony Griffin didn\u2019t do it, Ivan Henjak didn\u2019t do it. Madge Maguire does it. So you say it\u2019s not working, it is working and I\u2019ll tell you what is working as well, Ready. What is working is his recruitment. He\u2019s recruited Mitch Barnett, he\u2019s got Dane Gagai. He signed another player we\u2019re about to talk about it in the moment, so I won\u2019t give his name away just yet. But then we go to Parramatta.<\/p>\n READ: Bomber, hold on, hold on, hold on. You\u2019re saying his recruitment\u2019s working, right? Yes, he\u2019s recruited some players. He\u2019s also lost the best forward arguably in the history of rugby league. Payne Haas.<\/p>\n BADEL: Yeah, and I counter that by saying Penrith lost James Fisher Harris, probably a better generational prop at the time than Payne Haas. They\u2019ve lost Jarome Louai, they\u2019ve lost Api Koroisau. Did you guys hammer Penrith? Now let\u2019s go to Parramatta, because you asked me about Parramatta. They\u2019ve got a 39 per cent win record under Jason Ryles. He was seen as this super coach who bypassed the Dragons. He had a choice to go to the Dragons, and he said \u2018no, I\u2019m going to pick the right club at the right time\u2019. He identified Parramatta as the club because they were a perceived superpower. They have they talked progression, they\u2019ve had regression. They finished 11th last year with a 10 and 14 record, -76 deferential. This year, they\u2019ve won six games, lost 11, differential -176. On current trends, -300 will be their differential. You\u2019re telling me that\u2019s progression under Jason Ryles?<\/p>\n READ: I just gave you why it wasn\u2019t Bomber. You brought up Brisbane\u2019s injury crisis last night. Yet you ignore Parramatta\u2019s injury crisis. It\u2019s worse than Brisbane\u2019s, and their squad is worse to start with.<\/p>\n MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n \u2018REGRET IT\u2019: Bombshell Joey-for-NSW push hits overdrive after Daley \u2018decision\u2019 reveal<\/a><\/p>\n RUN HOME: Dogs\u2019 brutal reality… and why we can\u2019t rule out Broncos just yet<\/a><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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