{"id":856329,"date":"2026-08-15T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:22:13","slug":"nrl-news-2026-michael-maguire-press-conference-brisbane-broncos-vs-new-zealand-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856329\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Michael Maguire press conference; Brisbane Broncos vs New Zealand Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos<\/a> coach Michael Maguire<\/a>\u2019s fury was obvious in his post-match press conference, labelling it garbage the players would struggle for motivation during the rest of the season. <\/p>\n

The Broncos were comprehensively beaten 40-6 at home<\/a> against the Warriors<\/a>, in a match where their effort areas looked incredibly concerning. <\/p>\n

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Michael Maguire in his press conference.\u00a0NRL<\/p>\n

Maguire said the performance was \u201cnot good enough\u201d when first asked to give his thoughts. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t want to do that next weekend because we\u2019ll cop the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really disappointing, that one. We\u2019re not playing the style that we know we\u2019ve practised, and if they don\u2019t do it you won\u2019t get the rewards. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a team that muscled up and went after us. Not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stand-in captain Pat Carrigan was then asked if it was difficult to stay motivated now that the side out of finals contention. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t get a chance to respond as Maguire interjected as said \u201cthat\u2019s garbage\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re playing the team next week [Canberra] that\u2019s in the same boat. We\u2019re playing for the Broncos,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys are playing for the Broncos jersey that they wear. That is not good enough. I normally keep my cool at these things. We need to have a good hard look at ourselves and get into the game the way we know we can, or we\u2019ll get the same anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maguire also said he wasn\u2019t confused about what\u2019s gone wrong but wouldn\u2019t elaborate on the reason. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll keep that between us,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Carrigan managed to get a word in when asked about the Broncos defence and how poor they were in the first 20 minutes, conceding three tries. One of those tries came when the Warriors were down a man too. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust stupidity on both sides of the ball,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a lack of desire and intent to do your job. It\u2019s not good enough from us as players we just got out-competed tonight, which was disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos coach Michael Maguire\u2019s fury was obvious in his post-match press conference, labelling it garbage the players would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-856329","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\/856329","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=856329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}