{"id":456980,"date":"2026-06-02T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:38:09","slug":"broncos-star-dropped-as-maguire-looks-to-get-season-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456980\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos star dropped as Maguire looks to get season back-on-track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It looks like star five-eighth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/ezra-mam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ezra Mam<\/a> will be the one to pay the price for the Brisbane Broncos&#8217; poor slump of form, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/michael-maguire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Maguire<\/a> swinging the axe to attempt to keep their season alive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/tom-duffy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Duffy<\/a> will be the man to partner skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/adam-reynolds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Reynolds<\/a> in the halves, with fresh reports surfacing from the Courier Mail revealing that Mam has been relegated to 18th man on the Broncos&#8217; extended bench.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire is confirming he means business with the ruthless move, indicating no one is safe, even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/qld-maroons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland Maroons<\/a> bench player.<\/p>\n<p>Following their shock loss to the Dragons on Sunday, who handed the Red V their first win in almost 300 days, Mam is the first to be punished until the club yields on-field results.<\/p>\n<p>They face an unpredictable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/gold-coast-titans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Coast Titans<\/a> outfit on Saturday, who on their day can be hard to stop, especially given the Broncos&#8217; inconsistent campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mam was named on the six-man bench for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/qld-maroons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maroons<\/a>, but didn&#8217;t receive any game time meaning he could back up for the Broncos for their clash at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy offers stability in the halves following a strong club debut earlier in April, where he was a whisker away from beating his old club in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/north-queensland-cowboys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Queensland Cowboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a horror injury toll, the spine shake-up is a powerful reminder from Maguire that the club expects excellent results in their title defence campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; It looks like star five-eighth Ezra Mam will be the one to pay the price for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-456980","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\/456980","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=456980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}