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Anthony Seibold () (born 3 October 1974) is an Australian
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, and former rugby league player. He was defence coach with the
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, and since 2023 has been head coach for the
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of the
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(NRL). Seibold played rugby league for the
Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Red Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) and play their home games at ...
, Saint-Esteve,
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,
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and
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. After retiring, he moved into coaching, and was head coach of the
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in the
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, and of the Brisbane Broncos from
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to
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. He moved to rugby union as an assistant coach for
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in September 2021, before returning to rugby league as head coach of the
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League seaso ...
in November 2022.


Background

Anthony Seibold was born in
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, Australia, and is of German descent from his grandfather, and predominantly Irish and English from his paternal grandmother's side.


Playing career


Canberra Raiders

As a player, Seibold had stints in the lower grades at the
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(1992–1995) and in the National Rugby League with the
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(1997–1998).


London Broncos

In 1999 Seibold signed for the
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where he played two seasons in the
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.


Ipswich Jets

Seibold played for the
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in the 2002
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Grand Final before returning to the UK.


Hull KR

In 2003, Seibold signed for the
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, where he captained the team during their 2003 and 2004 seasons having his best season during his career with the team from East Hull.


Toowoomba Clydesdales

He returned to the Brisbane Broncos organisation in 2005 where he captained the
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team in the 2005 Queensland Cup.


Coaching career

Seibold has a Bachelor of Teaching and a Masters of Education and lectured in the Faculty of Education at the
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after his retirement from playing. In 2006, he moved to
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where he was assistant coach at Celtic Crusaders between 2006 and 2009, playing in the first season. He helped to lead the club to
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and assisted John Dixon in their first season at that level.


South Wales Scorpions

Following his spell at Crusaders, he took on his first head coach role, at South Wales Scorpions where he led the club to the play-offs in the club's first ever season. He then moved back to Australia to coach in the Queensland Cup.


Manly Warringah Sea Eagles

After working as an assistant coach at the
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under
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, Seibold was recruited to join the
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. He was also an assistant coach of the Queensland Maroons State of Origin team. On 8 November 2022, Seibold was appointed coach of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles following the sacking of their former coach
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.


South Sydney Rabbitohs

On 6 October 2017, Seibold was announced as the new
South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, also known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales, Maroubra that competes in the Nat ...
coach. In his first year as Souths coach, Seibold guided the club to a third-placed finish at the end of the regular season. Souths went on to reach the preliminary final but fell short of a grand final appearance losing 12–4 to
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. On 27 September 2018, Seibold was named Dally M coach of the year. In November 2018, Seibold angrily spoke to the media about a possible switch with Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett. He went on to say "I have had a gutful. I’ve been sitting here for four weeks and feeling like a punching bag. It’s not acceptable and it’s not fair … He’s (Wayne Bennett) been ringing up the Souths boys but then tells his press conference he hasn’t spoken to anyone. That’s absolute bullshit … I’m sick of Wayne carrying on.


Brisbane Broncos

On 2 December 2018, Seibold was announced as the new
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coach from 2019 onwards, a year earlier than expected, after Wayne Bennett was sacked as coach. The
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started off badly for Seibold and Brisbane as the club endured their equal worst start to a season since the club entered the competition in 1988. This included a 4–36 loss against the
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at the
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. Between rounds 16 and 24, Brisbane only lost 2 out of 8 games and qualified for the finals with a 17–16 victory over the
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at
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. In the 2019 elimination final against Parramatta, Brisbane suffered their worst ever defeat (at the time) and were also handed the biggest loss in finals history losing 58–0 at the new
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. In the post match press conference, Seibold said "I’m really disappointed, I’m embarrassed. I can’t toss up any excuses for that. I’ll wear it, I’m the coach of the club so I’ll take responsibility but it’s also my job to fix that. "I got a whiff of it last week leading into the Bulldogs game. Maybe I was too optimistic. It was men against boys today, it was embarrassing". Brisbane started the
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with two wins in a row against North Queensland and Seibold's former team, South Sydney. Brisbane maintained 5th position during the two rounds of the season before its suspension due to the outbreak of
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in Australia. Upon the resumption of the season on 28 May, Brisbane were defeated 34–6 by the
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. The following week, Brisbane were again on the wrong end of a big score line, losing to the
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59–0. This broke the record for the largest defeat in Broncos history. Brisbane went on to lose four more matches in a row, before defeating the
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26–8 in Round 9, snapping the Broncos' six game losing streak and giving them their third and final win for the 2020 season. Brisbane lost the next four matches against the
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, Melbourne, Cronulla-Sutherland and Souths. Following the Round 13 loss against South Sydney, Seibold took a leave of absence to be with his family in Sydney, with
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taking over the coaching duties. After multiple media outlets reported that Brisbane offered Seibold $1 million to depart the club, both parties agreed to an early termination of Seibold's contract, following Brisbane losing 10 games in the season with Seibold at the helm. Seibold left the club having been the only coach to not have a winning record with a ratio of only 34%. Under Seibold, 2020 was the worst year in Brisbane's history with only 3 wins from 20 matches and a points differential of −356 resulting in the club's first wooden spoon.


Manly Warringah Sea Eagles

In November 2022, Seibold signed a three-year deal to become the new head coach of Manly Warringah. In his first season in charge of Manly, he guided the club to win only four of the opening ten, being on the receiving end of some big score lines. Manly and NRL fans were already doubtful of his capability, and the first 10 made the noise even louder. Despite the poor start, the club only sat one point out of the eight. The next ten games were a roller coaster, with some big wins and losses. The club sat with nine wins, ten losses and a draw. In the next four games he guided them to two wins and two losses. The club finished 12th on the table. Seibold guided Manly to a 7th place finish in the
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. The club would defeat Canterbury in week one of the finals, but were eliminated in the second week by the Sydney Roosters.


Rugby union

Seibold joined the
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in September 2021, working as a defence coach under Australian head coach Eddie Jones.


References


External links


Brisbane Broncos profileSouth Sydney Rabbitohs profile
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