Apparently FaceTime and Zoom haven't caught on at Red Hill. "I made the decision to make this year my last in the best interests of the club," he said.
"When we brought Anthony to our club and at that time, there was widespread support for our decision. Brisbane Broncos Seibold’s second season at Red Hill has been nothing short of catastrophic, with the 3-11 Broncos languishing in 15th spot on the NRL ladder. Club icon and director Darren Lockyer also backed the move and has been defending it ever since.The decision meant that Brisbane axed the greatest coach in rugby league history for an up-and-comer who had just one head-coaching season under his belt, albeit a brilliant one with South Sydney.White insisted that Seibold was the right choice at the time and claimed that he was accountable for the failed move.
Broncos coach Anthony Seibold will take a significant pay cut along with CEO Paul White and senior Brisbane staff as the COVID-19 pandemic hits the Queensland powerhouse.While the Broncos are one of the code's most successful and well-resourced outfits, the impact of an NRL hiatus has prompted Seibold and his coaching staff to volunteer for the same sacrifices as their executive, according to White.The club is also looking at restructuring annual leave for staff and players pending return-to-play scenarios as several NRL rivals including Canterbury, Cronulla and Penrith have already done.
"Just to qualify that – we fought hard to get Anthony at our club. The supercoach has also claimed that the process which hired Seibold, and overlooked club icon Kevin Walters, was a fixed outcome in which Seibold was always going to be appointed.Seibold's crash since has been only of the most brutal ever seen in the NRL. "Our reason that we were with Anthony and the board made that decision, we knew we needed to build a long-term plan with this playing group that we had and we knew we needed a change of direction for all the right reasons. I'm accountable today as I was when we appointed Anthony," White said. Yes, he is a very emotional man, but when he coaches the Queensland State of Origin team he has a very calm presence in the Maroons coaching box.
The Brisbane Broncos coach has been the target of false comments on social media in the wake of his decision to stay in New South Wales after his team's loss to South Sydney on August 7. David Stagg. You have skipped the navigation, tab for page content I won't be talking on future decisions at this particular moment. "Anthony's pre-existing qualifications, the fact that he was coming from a big club, Dally M Coach of the Year, had grown up in our system, understood our system, was a Queenslander. The Broncos chief executive could not entirely deny that in his decade-long tenure, Brisbane has churned through four coaches and failed to win a premiership. "But the levels of scrutiny – some of it bordering on hysterical, if not slanderous in recent times – have placed a heavy burden on Anthony and his family. We went through a robust process and I'm not going to revisit that process but it was the type of process you'd expect from a club like ours. It hasn't worked out but certainly I'm sitting here before everyone today as accountable as I was back when we appointed Anthony. "But we will not place a timeline on that process," White said.The decision comes after a tough 18 months for the coach, who faced Seibold said people asked what he would have done differently but "none of that matters right now". The official website of the Brisbane Broncos.
"Ivan Henjak was the first coach when I arrived and we parted ways before the start of the season. He was the reigning Dally M Coach of the Year, his incumbent club – South Sydney – had offered him a four-year deal.