{"id":595116,"date":"2026-09-09T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595116\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:58:12","slug":"manly-sea-eagles-shake-up-coaching-staff-after-missing-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595116\/","title":{"rendered":"Manly Sea Eagles shake-up coaching staff after missing finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After missing the finals, the Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> have let go of three members of the football staff under Kieran Foran<\/a> as part of a staffing revamp.<\/p>\n

Former NRL<\/a> player Brett Kimmorley<\/a>, head of football Peter Gentle, and coaching development and leadership member Aaron Greaves are set to depart as Manly make a transformation of their staff, according to The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n

Kimmorley departed from the Wests Tigers NRLW<\/a> side as their coach after last season.<\/p>\n

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He left the role citing personal reasons for his decision to exit the club.<\/p>\n

It would not take long for Kimmorley’s return to the coaching space, joining the Sea Eagles as the club’s NSW Cup<\/a> coach this season.<\/p>\n

Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> won the wooden spoon in the NSW Cup<\/a> competition this season.<\/p>\n

Under Kimmorley, they only won two games all season.<\/p>\n

The former halfback was on the club’s list as a potential interim coach when Seibold was sacked after the first three games to start the season.<\/p>\n

Anthony Seibold<\/a> hired Greaves after last season, who had experience as an AFL<\/a> leadership coach.<\/p>\n

\"NRLSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 08: Sea Eagles head coach Anthony Seibold looks on during the round one NRL match between Manly Sea Eagles and North Queensland Cowboys at 4 Pines Park, on March 08, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Gentle became the club’s recruitment manager in 2023 before his promotion to head of football last year.<\/p>\n

He would be in the coaches’ box with Foran and had coaching experience as Brisbane’s interim coach in 2020.<\/p>\n

Last week, Peter V’landys attended the Manly board meeting, where he spoke about the direction rugby league is heading in.<\/p>\n

The club is also hoping to secure its future at Brookvale by hosting politicians at their last home game this season against the Dragons in Round 26.<\/p>\n

Manly is not the first club to have a change in their staff after their season finished, as John Morris<\/a> confirmed his departure from the Wests Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sea Eagles finished 9th after starting the season 0-3, losing their first three games at home.<\/p>\n

Kieran Foran<\/a> had the club as high as the top four on the ladder before falling two wins short of being 8th and in the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing the finals, the Manly Sea Eagles have let go of three members of the football staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-595116","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\/595116","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=595116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}