What Gould said during 'vicious' Seibold attacks

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Phil Gould has lifted the lid connected however helium helped Anthony Seibold done the demise of his Brisbane coaching tenure.

Seibold revealed to 9News this week it was Gould who offered his enactment and proposal earlier the erstwhile was yet sacked by the Broncos mid-season successful 2020, a twelvemonth and a fractional into a five-year contract.

Seibold had been Dally M manager of the twelvemonth at South Sydney - his archetypal gig arsenic a caput manager - but his clip astatine Red Hill turned into a nightmare.

"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," Seibold told 9News of Gould.

"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."

Speaking connected Wide World of Sports' Six Tackles with Gus podcast, Gould explained however the narration came about and what helium said to Seibold to get him backmost connected his feet.

"Paul White, who was the CEO of the Broncos astatine that time, conscionable reached out, they were doing arsenic overmuch arsenic they could to enactment Anthony," Gould said.

"There is simply a batch of unit progressive successful NRL coaching astatine the champion of times, fto unsocial erstwhile you're successful specified a high-profile presumption arsenic that.

"We conscionable talked football, coaching, and life. This is not the lone clip it's happened, it happens with coaches rather regularly to beryllium honest.

"Normally it's with coaches who person reached the backmost extremity of their time, and you tin spot the extremity coming, they are benignant of searching for answers for what's gone wrong.

How Gould helped Seibold combat back

"What I find with each of them is it's not the coaching and it's not the cognition of shot that beats them, it's everything that goes astir it. It's each the different things that a caput manager has to contend with these days, successful information anyone successful rugby league.

"The astir vicious of those tin beryllium media and societal media, and the mode they're treated successful those areas. It tin beryllium precise taxing connected them.

"I deliberation Anthony, if helium had his clip implicit again, would astir apt bash things differently."

Seibold has since worked nether erstwhile England rugby manager Eddie Jones, and has present taken the reins of Manly to implicit his NRL coaching comeback.

Gould is gladsome to spot his resurgence with the Sea Eagles, but warned the pressures of NRL coaching volition ne'er vanish completely.

"The 1 happening I wanted to accent to him was it wasn't the extremity for (his career)," Gould said.

"Failure is simply a portion of your journey, nonaccomplishment is simply a portion of your aboriginal success.

"I said, 'walk astir with your caput up mate, you volition emergence again. Go and bash immoderate adjunct jobs, I'm 100 per cent definite you volition beryllium a caput manager again'.

"He's a precise knowledgeable antheral astir the crippled of rugby league, there's nary hazard successful that.

"Even young players contiguous are precise judgmental of coaches, it's not an casual situation whatsoever. It's antithetic (to erstwhile Gould coached), it's very, precise different."

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