{"id":355508,"date":"2026-03-30T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355508\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:22:14","slug":"teo-speaks-out-after-messy-exit-from-brisbane-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355508\/","title":{"rendered":"Te’o speaks out after messy exit from Brisbane Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Te’o<\/a> has publicly broken his silence since his resignation as Brisbane Broncos<\/a> assistant coach last week.<\/p>\n

Broncos head coach Michael Maguire<\/a> and Te’o were reportedly involved in a heated argument over tactical decisions in the buildup to their win against the Melbourne Storm<\/a>, leading to Te’o making his exit.<\/p>\n

Te’o was denied an opportunity to be part of Billy Slater’s QLD Maroons staff<\/a> by the Broncos club, with CEO Dave Donaghy stating “you can’t weaken your program,” with other assistant Matt Ballin<\/a> also affiliated with the representative position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although Te’o didn’t pinpoint which was the reason he left the Broncos, but says he is happy with the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’m going really well,” Te’o said on Triple M.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a big week for me. Probably the first part of the week for me was the toughest and it is always unfortunate when things go this way.<\/p>\n

“But all I can say is that I am someone who is pretty strong and I know what is important to me and where I am going in my coaching career and this was the decision that I came up with and I’m very comfortable with it.”<\/p>\n

Maguire was questioned on the incident in his post-match press conference against cross-town rivals the Dolphins<\/a> on Friday night, but was reluctant to give up any details.<\/p>\n

“Look, he submitted his resignation and now we’ve taken that. And that’s all I’m going to talk about,” Maguire said.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to stick to my line here. I do apologise if you want more, but we’ve got a playing group in there. I’ve got a staff in there. We’ve got a really important game tomorrow night.”<\/p>\n

The Manly Sea Eagles’ sacking of Anthony Seibold<\/a> opens the door ajar for Te’o to take up an opportunity as an NRL<\/a> head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He has also been linked with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> and the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, with reports from Wide World of Sports that coach Josh Hannay<\/a> is monitoring his current situation closely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Te’o was instrumental in the Broncos’ 19-year premiership drought break, carrying out a defensive coaching role that saw them hold out the Melbourne Storm<\/a> in the dying moments of last year’s Grand Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Te’o has publicly broken his silence since his resignation as Brisbane Broncos assistant coach last week. Broncos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-355508","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\/355508","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=355508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}