COACH NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM AT BRONCOS
PHIL Gould believes Anthony Seibold can rise again and the Broncos nightmare winter is a much deeper story than the tale of a young coach who lost his way.
Master coach Gould believes the Broncos must urgently review its football department in the wake of Seibold’s departure and work out why the DNA which once made the club great no longer exists.
He feels Seibold was “the wrong coach at the wrong time’’, was distracted from the time he landed in Brisbane, and may have suffered from the coaches curse of following Wayne Bennett into the job and trying to change things too quickly.
Bennett has been touted for a possible return to Red Hill in the next year or two.
“The club needs to have a really good to look at its football program and what it has produced because a failure of this magnitude is just not the head coach,’’ Gould told News Corp. “A head coach does not have the effect on a club in the space of 15 months.
“The whole Bronco thing has astonished us all a bit. It was like it was happening in slow motion but we could all see where it was going.
“There has to be a lot of questions asked as to whether Anthony Seibold was given the support he needed.
“The Broncos system has changed a lot in recent years. In 2012 (chief executive) Paul White and (coach) Anthony Griffin were very kind to give me a look at their system because I had just moved to Penrith.
“I adopted a lot of the culture they had up there with young players but I wonder whether they have moved away from that culture.’’
Gould feels Seibold could return to the coaching ranks in some capacity.
“Absolutely he can. If that is what he chooses to do. He has to take stock and find out where he fits in to it all, whether he comes back as a head coach remains to be seen.
“Some fellows are cut out for it. Some are better suited to an assistant role. He will work out where his niche is.’’
Gould could see merit in appointing Kevin Walters or Paul Green but declined to nominate a favourite.
Robert Craddock