If he is not fired, I will leave the Manly Sea Eagles head coach, as he has a misunderstanding with his player.

If he is not fired, I will leave the Manly Sea Eagles head coach, as he has a misunderstanding with his player.

The head coach of the Manly Sea Eagles had a disagreement with one of his players; therefore, if he is not fired, I will step down.

After weeks of rumors over Des Hasler’s future at Manly, the NRL head coach has been fired, and Anthony Seibold will take over as coach in 2023.

The Sea Eagles‘ decision to wear a special pride shirt caused division and hindered a team that had finished in the top four the previous season, as seen by their seven consecutive losses.

With only a year remaining on his deal, Hasler’s standing was called into question when Manly failed to make it to the finals, which meant the coach had violated a provision that would have automatically extended his contract until 2024.

When chairman Scott Penn told the Nine Network this week that the Sea Eagles required a football department worthy of their “premiership-winning team,” the situation reached a breaking point.

Penn, who had previously served as an assistant coach at Manly, gave preference to former South Sydney and Brisbane coach Seibold when formulating a succession plan.

Hasler reportedly told the Sea Eagles as recently as Wednesday night that he was willing to have Seibold serve as an assistant in 2023 with the intention of stepping down as head coach at the conclusion of that campaign.

However, the board decided to expedite the regeneration after convening on Thursday morning, with the aim of permanently bridging the rifts that harmed the team’s most recent campaign.

Hasler’s departure might still have an impact on the team, since some important players have expressed worries about their unrest during the offseason.

Due to the fact that Hasler gave the halfback his NRL debut in 2011 and helped him grow into a premiership-winning playmaker by the conclusion of the season, Captain Daly Cherry-Evans and the fired coach have a well-known friendship.

Despite senior players in the playing group disagreeing with the halfback, Hasler stuck with the youthful Cherry-Evans, and Cherry-Evans acknowledged he had considered leaving the team when the coach’s future was in doubt this year.

Manager Paul Sutton revealed this week to News Corp. that Manly’s Tom and Jake Trbojevic were “down in the dumps” because of the unrest at the club, raising worries of their own.

The two, a fullback who has won the Dally M Medal and a forward who has represented the State of Origin 15 times, are vital players for the Sea Eagles to lose.

Before departing the team to work at Canterbury, Hasler was the most recent coach to lead Manly to the Premiership, having accomplished it twice in 2008 and 2011.

Following two grand final defeats with the Bulldogs, Hasler made his way back to Brookvale in 2019 and surpassed Bob Fulton in the club’s history in terms of caps.