{"id":856741,"date":"2026-08-16T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856741\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:58:11","slug":"nrl-2026-michael-maguire-slams-brisbane-broncos-in-press-conference-losing-streak-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856741\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Michael Maguire slams Brisbane Broncos in press conference, losing streak, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Maguire has finally had enough of his footy side after weeks of defending losing efforts, storming out of his press conference, while Pat Carrigan said the Broncos lacked \u201cdesire\u201d in the 40-6 loss to the Warriors<\/a> at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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Despite winning just one of their past 11 heading into the game, Maguire had continuously driven a narrative that his players were putting in their full effort.<\/p>\n

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But after they allowed the Warriors to run in seven tries on their home ground, the Broncos coach let his players have it in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot good enough, just plain and simple. We won\u2019t want to do that next weekend because we\u2019ll cop the same. It was really disappointing, that one. We\u2019re not playing the style that we know we\u2019ve practised,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Carrigan was then asked by a reporter if it was hard to stay motivated knowing the team was out of finals contention, but the Brisbane skipper didn\u2019t have time to answer before Maguire intervened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reckon that\u2019s garbage. We\u2019re playing the team next week (Canberra) that\u2019s in the same boat. We\u2019re playing for the Broncos,\u201d Maguire said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to motivate people when you\u2019re playing for the Broncos. They\u2019re playing for a very good club.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the day the Raiders, who are also out of finals contention, rolled up their sleeves to defeat the fancied Sharks away from home.<\/p>\n

After seeing how committed Ricky Stuart\u2019s team was hours earlier compared to his side, Maguire decided to remind his players that they were representing the glamour club of the NRL.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys are playing for the Broncos jersey that they wear. That is not good enough. I normally keep calm at these things. We need to have a good hard look at ourselves,\u201d he said, with veteran Brisbane rugby league writer Peter Badel reporting that Maguire stormed out of his press conference as it ended.<\/p>\n

Michael Maguire leaves his press conference.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n

Carrigan was eventually asked what went wrong after the Warriors put the game to bed in the first 20 minutes with three quick tries.<\/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 Carrigan said.<\/p>\n

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The Broncos were dealt a huge blow early in the match when Reece Walsh limped off with a high ankle sprain after a Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad hip drop tackle. <\/p>\n

Maguire was asked how bad the Walsh injury was after he was left wearing a moon boot and he snapped back: \u201cI\u2019m more concerned about our performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The loss was Brisbane\u2019s 15th of the season and it\u2019s the most by a defending premier in the game\u2019s history. <\/p>\n

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The Broncos could still get the wooden spoon if the Dragons win on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire has finally had enough of his footy side after weeks of defending losing efforts, storming out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-856741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856741","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=856741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}