How Gould helped Seibold survive nightmare

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Anthony Seibold has revealed the relation Phil Gould played successful convincing him not to discontinue NRL coaching aft a disastrous stint successful Brisbane.

Seibold has taken the reins of Manly this year, the 3rd nine helium has been caput manager at, aft starting with the Rabbitohs earlier his ill-fated determination to Red Hill.

The Broncos made the finals successful his archetypal twelvemonth successful complaint successful 2019, but ended the run with a 58-0 quarter-final thumping astatine the hands of Parramatta.

Things went downhill accelerated and Seibold was sacked successful the mediate of the pursuing season, arsenic the nine sunk to its archetypal ever woody spoon.

Amid the fearfulness Seibold was bashed from pillar to post, with galore laying the blasted for Brisbane's demise solely astatine the coach's feet.

"There was surely a clip aft my erstwhile caput manager acquisition that I thought possibly I didn't privation to beryllium a caput manager again," Seibold told 9News connected Tuesday.

But portion overmuch of the crippled was tearing him down, Seibold recovered an state successful Bulldogs supremo and respected erstwhile manager Gould.

"Phil was truly generous with his clip erstwhile I was coaching the Broncos," Seibold revealed.

"There was 1 clip I spent a afloat time astatine Phil's house... talking with 1 of the champion minds successful the crippled for the champion portion of six oregon 7 hours.

"There was a connection helium said to maine aft I finished up astatine the Broncos, it was around, 'don't fell down the curtains' - the connection I took was adjacent though (it had been) a truly challenging time, get backmost retired determination and clasp your caput high."

After his nightmare stint successful Brisbane, Seibold went to England to assistance Eddie Jones manager the nationalist rugby team.

He was fixed England rugby's blessings precocious past twelvemonth to instrumentality up an connection from the Sea Eagles.

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