{"id":451676,"date":"2026-05-29T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:42:11","slug":"nrl-2026-sharks-defeat-sea-eagles-kieran-foran-press-conference-confused-with-refereeing-set-restarts-what-happened-news-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451676\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Sharks defeat Sea Eagles, Kieran Foran press conference, confused with refereeing, set restarts, what happened, news, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly interim coach Kieran Foran was left \u201cdisappointed\u201d by his side\u2019s first half of footy during a 28-22 loss to Cronulla <\/a>but admitted he was confused by the officiating.<\/p>\n

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The Sea Eagles lost just their second game in nine starts since Foran took over from the sacked Anthony Seibold.<\/p>\n

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They were shell-shocked in the first half, trailing 22-4 at the break, although they fought back valiantly to get within six. <\/p>\n

Foran said it was a \u201clesson\u201d his side needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing. We completely missed the mark in that first 40 and got taught a good lesson tonight,\u201d Foran said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to reset and you\u2019ve got to go again each and every week. Nothing\u2019s going to be handed to you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think we missed the physical battle tonight. They did to us what we\u2019ve been able to do to sides over the past eight weeks. They made it happen. They turned up with the attitude, ready to make it happen and we just missed it completely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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12 set restarts were awarded in the first half. It\u2019s the second time there\u2019s been that many in a half of football. <\/p>\n

Foran was asked about the number of set restarts and responded the lack of consistency week-to-week was what perturbed him.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt\u2019s inconsistent. There\u2019s no doubt about that,\u201d Foran said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome games they\u2019re blowing them, other games they\u2019re not. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou you don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going to happen each week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same question was the put to captain Jake Trbojevic, who agreed with Foran, but said it wasn\u2019t an excuse for the loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, no it\u2019s frustrating. Very frustrating but I think as Foz said, we missed the physical battle tonight. It probably didn\u2019t matter what the ref did,\u201d Trbojevic said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike obviously some of the decisions are frustrating, but I\u2019m probably more disappointed in how we turned up and applied ourselves tonight. It wasn\u2019t the sort of standard that we\u2019ve been trying to build the last couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sea Eagles won\u2019t have long to dust themselves off as they open up the round on Thursday next week against Souths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly interim coach Kieran Foran was left \u201cdisappointed\u201d by his side\u2019s first half of footy during a 28-22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[229893,5627,2647,229894,229895,229891,198493,100760,31678,32719,111,139,69,229892,346,213578,213],"class_list":["post-451676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-admits-confusion","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-fox-league","tag-foz","tag-golden-run-ends","tag-grim-ref-stat","tag-interim-coach","tag-jake-trbojevic","tag-kieran-foran","tag-manly-sea-eagles","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-physical-battle","tag-press-conference","tag-set-restarts","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451676","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=451676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}