Anthony Seibold knows that love is a battlefield with the Rugby League

If a documentary has ever been made of the football career of the virile coach Anthony Seibold, by Bruce Springsteen Born to run It should be the background soundtrack to accompany the vision.

Seibold has played Rugby League professionally for the Broncos Brisbane, the French club Saint-Ateveve, Canberra Raiders, London Broncos, Ipswich Jets, Hull Kingston Rovers, Toowoomba ClydesdaLes and represented Germany in a test against Estonia, who qualified through his grandfather who came to Australia after the World War to work on the project to work on the project to work on the project of snow.

He was assistant or head of the coach at Celtic Crusaders, South Wales Scorpions, Melbourne Storm, South Sydney, Brisbane Broncos, the national rugby team in England and Manly.

After such “having boots, it will travel” nomadic existence, it must be comforting to sit in a planning meeting at the Sea Eagles surrounded by four former ex-London Broncos players: the managing director Tony Mestrov, the assistant coach Jim Dymock, the head of the performance Jon Clarke and the media manager, Chris Warren.

“I wouldn’t call him comforting,” says Seibold, while not refusing the word in the sense that means solved. “I only played with one of them (Clarke) in London Broncos. Others played on both sides of me. It is more bizarre and random.”

“Bizarre” is a word that Seibold often uses, reflecting the strange and unusual world of professional sport. Benny Elias, the man whose attempt by Field Goal hit the cross bar in a great ending, says something similar with his “Rugby League is a fun game”. And Benny means strange, not fun.

Seibold described the loss of Eagles Sea to the Warriors in the round 2 as “bizarre”, in the sense: “We spent 38 seconds within their 20 meters area, which means that” the lack of position on the field killed us “.

“What could go wrong, he made a mistake.”

However, Manly’s opening match against the Cowboys was impressive, guided by their age-free half, Day Cherry-Evans and the profound threat of the full-back Tom Rojevic.

And in their match of the Round 3 against the raiders previously fit, the Sea Eagles destroyed men in green 40-12 after racing a 30-0 advantage in half time.

However, the world of Seoldo resumed to be bizarre only 24 hours after the great victory when Cherry-Evans shocked the NRLannouncing Monday that he would not play with the club after 2025, despite having been offered an agreement of $ 1.4 million $ 1.4 million.

“The Rugby League is a crazy place to be sometimes at times,” said Seibold of Cherry-Evans’ announcement.

“Out of respect for” Chez “I have nothing else to add as well as how much it has never been in our team this season and that the shows in its form of the beginning of the season.”

Seibold has a strong nucleus of “young veterans”, players aged between 24 and 27 years old who played from 100 to 150 games.

“In my best 22 players, I probably have 13 or 14 in that category,” he said. “Once you played over 100 games, you know the experience of being well beaten, playing in the rain, a long journey ….”

Seibold, 50 years old, trained the rabbitoh for one season (2018), reaching the preliminary final and won the coach of the Year award. “It is a very different group in Manly compared to South Sydney who was a very experienced team,” he says.

“It is again very different from the Broncos in which I gave 12 players their debut.”

In Brisbane, Seibold also had a couple of senior players (and their wives) who were very faithful to the previous coach, Wayne Bennett, winner of six prizes to the bronchos.

It can be the worst of the combinations for a coach: a pair of influential leaders who approach the pension that dominate an impressable and Credulone team.

The atmosphere was intimidating before he arrived in Brisbane from Souths, finally exchanging roles with Bennett who cleverly positioned himself as a king coaching and you are decorated as a queen of the drama.

But it quickly became toxic, with a social media storm of vile unfounded voices. The quarterback on Monday morning – as the American describe those who always know what to do after a game – started to question Seoldo on Friday.

He delivered their first wooden spoon to the Broncos and resigned in the middle of the second year of a rich five -year contract.

In the end, while he fled Sydney to be with a sick daughter, he seemed to have entered a grave.

“I found the experience of Brisbane really demanding,” he said, his roca voice became even thicker, as if the words were captured in the throat. “I fell in love with coaching from that experience.”

Part of the problem was the “school teacher” label. The Rugby League is still an anti-intellectual match. If a former teacher is responsible for a team or club, and things go badly, it is because presumably treats players or staff as if they were in class.

As the losses piled up on the losses, the language of Seibold, a former high school teacher and teacher at the University of Southern Queensland, was perceived as too technique for a young group.

“I didn’t copy the tag of school teachers to Souths, mainly because I was successful,” he said. “But in the first part of my time in Brisbane, very done for me who I am a university professor. It was frustrating. In reality I think being a school teacher is one of my strengths. Teaching is the ability to simplify things from the complex. It helped me my coaching, not hindered. It helped me with feedback, performance revisions, planning.”

But none of his education had taught him the main lesson of the Rugby League: however much you love the game, often does not love you. After the early success in Souths, the premature liability of the Juggernaut in Brisbane arrived.

“It was difficult,” said the dream of a dream born in Rockhampton who did not come true. “The opportunity to go home in Queensland and train the club where I had played four years in the lower votes and an excellent money deal was too much, despite enjoying the South Sydney.” As Oscar Wilde said, “when the gods want to punish us, they respond to our prayers”.

So, Seibold had to live his life backwards, return to the bush after the great moment. Rather than switching to, for example, to Clydesdales, “I changed the codes,” he said. “It was the best thing I’ve ever done. I became Eddie Jones assistant with the English rugby team. I moved away from the spotlight. Eddie was the first to give me an opportunity and I trained 15 tests with him, also against the Springboks. He rekindled my passion for coaching.”

Now he returned to the club where he was an assistant in 2016. Only three players remain in Manly from that moment, but they are the most influential: Jake and Tom Rabojevic and Cherry-Evans. When asked if they had put pressure on his appointment as head coach, Seibold says: “I don’t know”.

But he recognizes the owner of the club Scott Penn and Broncos, Karl Morris, have a high opinion on him. “I have a strong staff around me”, revealing that the criticisms “school teachers” in Brisbane did not intimidate him with future appointments.

“We are four of us in the staff. My two assistants and the reserve coach are ex teachers. I like to work with all of them. It makes me come out of bed in the morning and I work until evening. And I have a football team that wants to improve.”

He lives with his wife and three daughters in the same house as the north beaches that they bought in 2015. “He is the longest that my daughters have lived everywhere,” he said. “It is home for us. We have been in the community since 2015.”

“I had a deep love for the game since I was a child and love came back”

Anthony Seibold

In a second interview, the word “comforting” as a description of the virile environment, also in the context of the experience of Brisbane again.

It is clearly sensitive to any suggestion, it is safe in a coach synecure, even if he is contracted until the end of the 2027 season. There is still the suggestion in his words of the pain of survivor, similar to a radio signal from a distant place, waving in intensity from the pain of Brisbane to the redeemed work week of seven days in Manly.

Recognizes that the work comes with integrated criticisms. “There are some good people who helped me on my way. There is more to love the game than the opposite. I had a deep love for the game since I was a child and love has come back.”

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