New Manly coach Anthony Seibold has opened up about his time at the helm of the Broncos, admitting he looks back on his tenure at Red Hill with regret.Seibold has returned to Manly as the club's new coach after working as an assistant with the Sea Eagles in 2016.Off the back of taking the reigns at South Sydney in 2018, Seibold picked up the Dally M Coach of the Year award after helping the Rabbitohs from a 12th-placed finish the year before to reaching a preliminary final.He departed for Brisbane after the 2018 season, but his tenure with the Broncos ended in disaster when he was dumped by the club just two years into his five-year contract.The 48-year-old has since worked in a consultancy role with former England rugby coach Eddie Jones and as an assistant coach at the Knights under Adam O'Brien.Speaking on James Graham's The Bye Round Podcast, Seibold said his decision to leave the Rabbitohs was a poor one."I do regret it," he said."I made a business decision in the end. Ultimately, it proved to be the wrong decision."But the way I looked at it was it was an opportunity to set up not just my family, but my wider family for life, through the deal that was offered to me."It was a five-year deal with the sixth year in my favour. Very lucrative."I said 'no' a couple of times but then another year kept getting added, and it got to the point where I felt as though if I didn't take it, it's probably negligent in some way."Seibold's signing with Brisbane forced Wayne Bennett to be driven out of the Broncos, where he had won six premierships."I regret it heaps, but then maybe I wouldn't be the coach I am today if I didn't go through that experience of so much media exposure (that came with) going to Brisbane," Seibold said.
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