the departure of assistant coach Ben Te\u2019o <\/a>was leaked to the media with the playing group only finding out about his exit via social media.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s going on at the Broncos?\u201d Code Sports reporter David Riccio said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Payne Haas situation blows up. You know, I was critical of how they handled the management of addressing that departure of the best front-rower of the game <\/p>\n
\u201cThey claimed to me that they didn\u2019t have time to prepare a press conference because they were blindsided by the decision of Payne Haas. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest club of what [Dave] Donaghy wants to be\u2026they didn\u2019t know that their best player was leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday they claim they had no idea their assistant coach, such a pivotal member within that coaching staff, the right-hand man to Michael Maguire, the defensive operator that helped them win a premiership, they had no idea,\u201d Riccio added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is going on? Ben Talty took to a press conference and revealed that he learnt the news of Ben Te\u2019o\u2019s departure via Instagram.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bedel breaks down Te’o’s Broncos exit | 03:58<\/p>\n
The Broncos are now in damage control and looking for a new assistant, defensive coach and on-field trainer, all roles that Te\u2019o filled for Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Fox League\u2019s Paul Crawley revealed that Te\u2019o was a huge factor in turning around Brisbane\u2019s season in 2025 after he acted as a go-between with the players and Madge to allow them to reset their season with a night out in Manly.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone says defence is what wins premierships and Te\u2019o last year was credited with the fact when the Broncos were going through that tough period where they\u2019d lost four games in a row and I think it culminated in a big loss to Manly at Brookvale,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBen Te\u2019o was the one that could read the room and he figured that these boys need to get out and we need to enjoy ourselves, so he convinced Madge to let them go for a beer and he\u2019d spoken to Pat Carrigan about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it was his ability to have that rapport with the players and pull them aside and keep them on the path and then that put them on the trajectory to win the Grand Final.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo without that, you do have to worry about what may happen going forward because Madge\u2019s history is that he can go in and he can get the job done, but unfortunately, things can go pear-shaped after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 12: Head Coach Michael Maguire.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Riccio backed up Crawley, labelling Te\u2019o a cushion between the players and Madge\u2019s intensity.<\/p>\n
\u201cTe\u2019o acted as a very much a cushion or a go-between, between Madge and the players and the players confided in Te\u2019o a lot,\u201d Riccio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAcross every club, the assistant coach plays a pivotal role in being that barrier between head coach and playing group and Ben was that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo without him there, I\u2019m fascinated to see how they fill that void.\u201d<\/p>\n
Te\u2019o\u2019s departure prompted club legend Gorden Tallis to call for a shake up at the club.<\/p>\n
With tensions building behind the scenes and within the playing group, Tallis believes there is one man who should be rehired and is capable of steadying the ship, thereby unifying the playing group and coaching staff – Allan Langer.<\/p>\n
‘Bulls**t’ Crawley on Te’o’s exit | 02:56<\/p>\n
\u201cMadge has asked me to come in the four walls and I\u2019ve declined. Allan Langer needs to go back and get in the four walls and get in the blue shirt,\u201d the NRL 360 co-host added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no one that brings a side together like Allan Langer and if I was at the Broncos right now, with that playing group vulnerable and blokes leaving with the uncertainty, he\u2019s the guy that\u2019s always held every team together that I\u2019ve ever played with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul Crawley added, \u201cAlfie had the blue shirt when Kevie [Kevin Walters] was coaching and he surrendered that when Madge took over.\u201d<\/p>\n
A longtime blue shirt trainer for the Broncos – a role that Te\u2019o held at the club – Langer departed the Broncos at the end of 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is going on at the Brisbane Broncos? It is the question that is being asked across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-346391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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