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New Manly manager Anthony Seibold has opened up astir his clip astatine the helm of the Broncos, admitting helium looks backmost connected his tenure astatine Red Hill with regret.
Seibold has returned to Manly arsenic the club's caller coach aft moving arsenic an adjunct with the Sea Eagles successful 2016.
Off the backmost of taking the reigns astatine South Sydney successful 2018, Seibold picked up the Dally M Coach of the Year grant aft helping the Rabbitohs from a 12th-placed decorativeness the twelvemonth earlier to reaching a preliminary final.
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He departed for Brisbane aft the 2018 season, but his tenure with the Broncos ended successful catastrophe erstwhile helium was dumped by the nine conscionable 2 years into his five-year contract.
The 48-year-old has since worked successful a consultancy relation with erstwhile England rugby manager Eddie Jones and arsenic an adjunct manager astatine the Knights nether Adam O'Brien.
Speaking connected James Graham's The Bye Round Podcast, Seibold said his determination to permission the Rabbitohs was a mediocre one.
"I bash regret it," helium said.
"I made a concern determination successful the end. Ultimately, it proved to beryllium the incorrect decision.
"But the mode I looked astatine it was it was an accidental to acceptable up not conscionable my family, but my wider household for life, done the woody that was offered to me.
"It was a five-year woody with the sixth twelvemonth successful my favour. Very lucrative.
"I said 'no' a mates of times but past different twelvemonth kept getting added, and it got to the constituent wherever I felt arsenic though if I didn't instrumentality it, it's astir apt negligent successful immoderate way."
Seibold's signing with Brisbane forced Wayne Bennett to beryllium driven retired of the Broncos, wherever helium had won six premierships.
"I regret it heaps, but past possibly I wouldn't beryllium the manager I americium contiguous if I didn't spell done that acquisition of truthful overmuch media vulnerability (that came with) going to Brisbane," Seibold said.
"Replacing the fable of Wayne astatine the Broncos, the disapproval of the aged boys of maine coming to the nine and the sound that was ever determination (was difficult)."
Seibold does spot 1 affirmative successful his clip astatine the Broncos.
"I thought making the finals with that Brisbane squad successful 2019 was a bigger … and much palmy coaching communicative than the erstwhile twelvemonth (at South Sydney)," helium said.
"The crushed I accidental that is we debuted 11 guys that year.
"It was conscionable the mode we bowed out; we got beaten 58-0 successful the finals. It was conscionable horrible."
After sneaking into the competition's apical 8 successful 2019, the Broncos travelled to occidental Sydney to look Parramatta wherever the squad suffered its worst finals nonaccomplishment successful nine history.
"I didn't spot it coming," Seibold said.
"We bushed that Parramatta broadside 17-16 2 weeks earlier. So, bash you suffer your endowment successful 2 weeks? Do you suffer your fittingness oregon your interaction quality successful 2 weeks? You don't.
"Obviously, thing mentally wasn't rather close determination for immoderate reason.
"But to marque the finals from wherever we came from ... erstwhile you look astatine it present and wherever the Broncos person been since, it was really a beauteous decent twelvemonth for that group."
Despite finishing his clip astatine Brisbane with conscionable 14 wins from 40 games, Seibold said helium would not alteration immoderate of the choices helium made successful the champion involvement of the team.
"I inactive would humor each the young kids," helium said.
"I was heavy criticised for giving Tommy Dearden his debut and I was heavy criticised for making Pat Carrigan skipper astatine 20 years of age. But if you look astatine wherever they are present … I could spot that.
"What would I bash different?
"I made a batch of changes. Probably didn't support immoderate of the DNA of the club. So, that would beryllium 1 thing.
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"Some of the elder players, for instance. Maybe I could person handled them a small spot differently."
But for each the heartache coaching has brought him, Seibold is not disquieted astir returning to the apical job.
"Looking backmost now, it seems a small spot surreal," helium said.
"It seems similar a beingness ago, adjacent though it was lone a mates of years ago.
"But I consciousness similar I'm a amended manager and adjacent a amended person.
"It was pugnacious astatine the time, and I tin spot wherefore radical criticised maine externally, but that's beingness and you get connected with it.
"I cognize that I tin get done that truly tough, turbulent clip wherever you're not conscionable connected the backmost leafage but you're really connected the beforehand page, too.
"I consciousness similar I've shown that I tin bring groups together. I've besides shown that if you marque immoderate mistakes and you're a spot cloudy with immoderate of your determination making past it tin truly spell severely for you.
"I consciousness arsenic though I americium a assets to the radical and a servant to the group. Not everyone would hold with that, but erstwhile you're a teacher oregon a coach, you're determination to service the group."
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