{"id":838709,"date":"2026-08-01T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:31:11","slug":"nrl-news-2026-brisbane-broncos-season-michael-magure-and-pat-carrigan-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838709\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Brisbane Broncos season, Michael Magure and Pat Carrigan press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Carrigan<\/a> has declared the Broncos<\/a> squad is \u201c100 per cent behind\u201d coach Michael Maguire<\/a> as the veteran leader ponders how to fix a side that\u2019s missed out on finals only a year after winning the competition.<\/p>\n

Brisbane\u2019s horror slide continued when the Knights won 30-6 on Saturday night<\/a> at Suncorp Stadium. <\/p>\n

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Michael Maguire and Patrick Carrigan.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

The result was compounded by a concussion to Adam Reynolds, while Reece Walsh will await any punishment for a hair pull that led to a sin bin. Xavier Willison also left the game early due to injury. <\/p>\n

Maguire, despite being fresh off a premiership win, has come under external pressure for the Broncos\u2019 performances. <\/p>\n

His hard-line mentality towards coaching has become a constant narrative and once again been peddled by people outside the club as a possible reason behind this season\u2019s results. <\/p>\n

Post-match, Carrigan put his support behind the coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s hard to stand behind performances like that, but as players we take accountability for that. Madge is detailed with his preparation and his care for us players is second to none,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the playing group that go out on the field and get an opportunity to perform in those 80 minutes and we\u2019re not nailing our job at the moment. Once you cross that white line, it\u2019s up to you as an individual and we\u2019re falling short.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst our performances have been off, there\u2019s definitely a lot of belief there and we\u2019re 100 per cent behind Madge. As a playing group, we have to turn this around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Broncos have been struck by injuries throughout the season but in recent rounds have managed to put forward full-strength sides. <\/p>\n

They shocked the competition with a victory against Penrith three rounds ago but have now backed that up with losses to the Cowboys and Knights. <\/p>\n

Maguire said things simply aren\u2019t going the way of his side at the moment. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously tough because I\u2019ve got a high regard about how these boys go about things. You can\u2019t fault how they try and unfortunately, at the moment, things are not going our way and I feel for everyone going through it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a group that supports each other and that\u2019s what it\u2019s about now. When you\u2019re having to leave Patty and Payne out there for an 80-minute stint, it does disjoint things in your game plan and then all of a sudden, your attack doesn\u2019t look as fluent. <\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes a bit of frustration can come in because I know how hard the boys are trying and that\u2019s what I see. They understand the enormity of what we are here at the Broncos, so it\u2019s pretty hard watching the players have to go through that. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t help when you lose a couple of your players … the players look to each other without a couple of their mates and think it could be a bit tough. Those things can come into it, but they fought.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how the Broncos will approach the rest of the season, Maguire wasn\u2019t against blooding other players but said he\u2019d speak to his senior men before making any changes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Carrigan has declared the Broncos squad is \u201c100 per cent behind\u201d coach Michael Maguire as the veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-838709","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\/838709","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=838709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}