{"id":875032,"date":"2026-08-31T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875032\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:08:13","slug":"nrl-2026-michael-maguire-has-ten-weeks-in-2027-to-save-job-wayne-bennett-floated-as-a-left-field-option-to-replace-michael-maguire-news-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875032\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Michael Maguire has ten weeks in 2027 to save job, Wayne Bennett floated as a left-field option to replace Michael Maguire, news, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Maguire survived the club\u2019s internal review into their dismal 2026 campaign but the Broncos coach could be given just a ten-week time frame next season to spark a turnaround.<\/p>\n

Significant pressure has been placed on the club and Maguire after a horror season and while an extensive review demanded 14 changes<\/a>, the head coach\u2019s job is safe.<\/p>\n

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However, CODE Sports\u2019 Brent Read says Maguire and the Broncos will likely have to start fast in 2027 otherwise the two-time premiership winning coach will be on the hot seat. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe most significant part of (the review) Braith is that the coach isn\u2019t under pressure and perhaps we all thought that the review would show there\u2019s pressure on the coach,\u201d Read said on NRL360.<\/p>\n

\u201cMadge is going to start next season the way I see it and will be given the opportunity to turn things around at the club and if he can\u2019t, then after ten weeks or so, they\u2019ve got a decision to make.\u201d<\/p>\n

Broncos CEO Dave Donaghy faced the media on Monday to field questions about the club\u2019s review,<\/a> including Maguire\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

Donaghy says he\u2019d \u201clove\u201d Maguire to be the club\u2019s coach long-term, but didn\u2019t commit to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have those discussions behind closed doors,\u201d Donaghy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always said I\u2019d love for Madge to be a long-term coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s certainly been a challenging year on many different fronts and there\u2019s been some things that have been in our control and some things that have been outside of our control.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve fallen short of our standards and our targets and as CEO I accept responsibility for my share of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Maguire was able to help break a premiership drought of 19 years in his first season at the club, things have become so dire at the Broncos according to journalist Dean Ritchie.<\/p>\n

So much so, that Ritchie finds it hard to see Maguire being able to turn things around over the off-season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re an absolute debacle on and off the field,\u201d Ritchie said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe issues are so deep at Brisbane and they\u2019re so hostile. I\u2019m a Madge fan but I just wonder how the hell he\u2019s going to pull this group together during the summer and somehow get the best out of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re fractured. They\u2019re unhappy. They\u2019re unsettled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like a club that isn\u2019t going to somehow find a spark over December and January and come out of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ritchie\u2019s comments led to NRL360 host Braith Anasta ask the panel if there\u2019s any coaching contenders who would want to coach the Broncos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the Broncos. Every coach in the game would want to coach the Broncos,\u201d Read replied. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no candidate that stands out to me. There\u2019s obviously guys on the staff like (assistant coach) Trent Barrett or (ex-assistant) Ben Te\u2019o, who was on the staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe left-field one is Wayne (Bennett) but there would need to be significant changes (at the club) for Wayne to go back there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire survived the club\u2019s internal review into their dismal 2026 campaign but the Broncos coach could be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-875032","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\/875032","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=875032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}