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Badel in the Sunday Mail, gives the floor to Coach Seibold
Seibold:
“I have no control over external opinions and what people expect of the Broncos. But to be fair, myself and the players now here should not have to be burdened with the Broncos not having won the premiership since 2006. David Fifita (Broncos back-rower) was six years old (when the club last won the premiership). Payne Haas was seven. Xavier Coates and Tom Dearden were five. Patty Carrigan was eight years old."
“It’s not our burden. The guys know that."
“I have implemented a framework here to bring success. We have a vastly talented young group and I know where we are going. I feel privileged to be coaching this group and the guys know me a lot better this year and I know them a lot better. I am confident in the roster we have in 2020.”
“I accept there were games that were not acceptable. The final against Parramatta was one of them. But we beat the same team two weeks earlier. Talent doesn’t change in a fortnight. Fitness doesn’t change. So what changes? It’s clearly mental."
“We capitulated in the finals and I take responsibility for that. The NRL is like a bull ride, it really is. Sometimes you hold on for eight seconds and sometimes you get bucked off. We held on for eight seconds in great wins against the Roosters and Cronulla last year. But sometimes we got bucked off and that happened big time against Parramatta.”
“To be honest, I felt we were physically underdeveloped last year. I know our strengths, but the big thing for me is the physical development of our squad. I found the group last year was lacking in some areas. I’m not knocking what happened in the past (under former coach Wayne Bennett), but guys like Kotoni Staggs or Payne Haas have only had one or two pre-seasons."
“Rugby league is a late maturation sport. It takes some time to build physical qualities to become an elite NRL player. We have a lot of young men who are in the zero-to-two-year range of NRL career development. We have had to make some strides in training and much of that related to the youth in our squad.”
“I am not a structured coach. We play to certain principles here. Our principles in attack are around creating momentum, applying pressure and capitalising off the back of that. But I am trying to improve the limiting factors in our game model. There are some areas in our game that we were deficient in last year."
“In terms of our weapons, we had the quickest play-the-ball in the NRL (last season) and we broke more tackles than any other team, but our big focus is how can we win without the footy? Individually, you only have possession for a small amount of time. For example, Payne Haas might have 20 carries in a game for 10 seconds per run. That’s only a few minutes per game that Payne is touching the footy. So it’s what we do without the football that will take us from an average team that finished eighth to a team that gets better."
“Winning without the football is the key, whether we are in transition (from attack to defence and vice-versa), defending or don’t have the ball in attack. What is each player’s job?"
“That’s a big focus for us as a team this year.”
McHunt
Seibold:
“I have no control over external opinions and what people expect of the Broncos. But to be fair, myself and the players now here should not have to be burdened with the Broncos not having won the premiership since 2006. David Fifita (Broncos back-rower) was six years old (when the club last won the premiership). Payne Haas was seven. Xavier Coates and Tom Dearden were five. Patty Carrigan was eight years old."
“It’s not our burden. The guys know that."
“I have implemented a framework here to bring success. We have a vastly talented young group and I know where we are going. I feel privileged to be coaching this group and the guys know me a lot better this year and I know them a lot better. I am confident in the roster we have in 2020.”
“I accept there were games that were not acceptable. The final against Parramatta was one of them. But we beat the same team two weeks earlier. Talent doesn’t change in a fortnight. Fitness doesn’t change. So what changes? It’s clearly mental."
“We capitulated in the finals and I take responsibility for that. The NRL is like a bull ride, it really is. Sometimes you hold on for eight seconds and sometimes you get bucked off. We held on for eight seconds in great wins against the Roosters and Cronulla last year. But sometimes we got bucked off and that happened big time against Parramatta.”
“To be honest, I felt we were physically underdeveloped last year. I know our strengths, but the big thing for me is the physical development of our squad. I found the group last year was lacking in some areas. I’m not knocking what happened in the past (under former coach Wayne Bennett), but guys like Kotoni Staggs or Payne Haas have only had one or two pre-seasons."
“Rugby league is a late maturation sport. It takes some time to build physical qualities to become an elite NRL player. We have a lot of young men who are in the zero-to-two-year range of NRL career development. We have had to make some strides in training and much of that related to the youth in our squad.”
“I am not a structured coach. We play to certain principles here. Our principles in attack are around creating momentum, applying pressure and capitalising off the back of that. But I am trying to improve the limiting factors in our game model. There are some areas in our game that we were deficient in last year."
“In terms of our weapons, we had the quickest play-the-ball in the NRL (last season) and we broke more tackles than any other team, but our big focus is how can we win without the footy? Individually, you only have possession for a small amount of time. For example, Payne Haas might have 20 carries in a game for 10 seconds per run. That’s only a few minutes per game that Payne is touching the footy. So it’s what we do without the football that will take us from an average team that finished eighth to a team that gets better."
“Winning without the football is the key, whether we are in transition (from attack to defence and vice-versa), defending or don’t have the ball in attack. What is each player’s job?"
“That’s a big focus for us as a team this year.”
McHunt
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