{"id":354804,"date":"2026-03-30T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354804\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:09:08","slug":"geoff-toovey-breaks-silence-on-seibold-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354804\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Toovey breaks silence on Seibold sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/geoff-toovey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Toovey<\/a> has revealed it may take some time before the Northern Beaches club finds success after the recent sacking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/anthony-seibold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Seibold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The club moved swiftly to sack Seibold after the side&#8217;s third straight loss at home to start their 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It saw Manly legend and newly added assistant Keiran Foran take over the helm as head coach in an interim position the morning after Seibold&#8217;s sacking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Toovey says positive results won&#8217;t happen overnight, telling Wide World of Sports that the process of obtaining a new coach will take a few years to bounce back from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough gig and a big call to sack a coach after three games but it will take a couple of seasons to be a real force again,&#8221; Toovey told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The battle-hardened general also says the Sea Eagles will have to overhaul its roster in order to become a title heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roster needs to be looked at and changes have to be made,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then they have to find the right man to take over the coaching job and make the club strong again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel for the fans and all the people involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all know it&#8217;s a results-driven business and coaching is a tough gig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toovey&#8217;s tenure as head coach for Manly between 2012 and 2015 is broadly considered a successful reign amongst the Manly faithful.<\/p>\n<p>He finished his time with a 58% win record over four seasons, leading his side to three top-four finishes and a whisker away from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> premiership in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a controversial sacking at the end of 2015, Toovey seemed to have patched things up and returned to Brookvale, working in pathways development in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The crafty playmaker has managed to have his name thrown into conversations as a head coach pick for beyond 2026 at the Sea Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>However, Toovey brushed off claims of a return to the head honcho role, and is happy giving back to the future generations of Sea Eagles players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t even thought about it,&#8221; he told the publication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy doing what I am doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toovey played 238 games in maroon and white over 11 years, representing NSW 15 times and donning the green and gold on 13 occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manly Sea Eagles coach Geoff Toovey has revealed it may take some time before the Northern Beaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-354804","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\/354804","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=354804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}