Action man Seibold takes just 24 hours to make his mark

New Brisbane Broncos coach Anthony Seibold has hit the ground running and within 24 hours had outlined to everyone at the organisation his vision for the club for the next five years.

By the end of Monday, his first day in charge, Seibold had addressed every player from captain Darius Boyd right down to those in the club's elite development squad and all staff across the organisation.

By mid-Tuesday morning Seibold and his football department staff had put the players through two up-tempo training sessions where it was clear the Broncos playing group was eager to impress the new coach.

The first session was held at 1pm on Monday at Purtell Park in sweltering 30-plus degree heat and the intensity was through the roof with Seibold, assistant coaches Ben Cross and Peter Gentle, performance chief Paul Devlin and analyst Demas Wong all on deck to oversee training.

Broncos officials picked Seibold up at the Brisbane airport on Monday morning and he went straight to the club board room to meet with CEO Paul White and the senior executive before holding a 9am meeting with all football and administration staff.

In the meetings he detailed his ethos on coaching and rugby league, provided some background on himself and spoke about his belief that a modern rugby league club is a holistic organisation. While football is the main event, Seibold also outlined that his department would work in harmony with the commercial, community and media arms of the club.

By the end of Monday, Seibold had held a lengthy press conference, spoken to his playing group, overseen his first training run  and met with the rising stars in the elite development squad.

After a month of uncertainty surrounding when he would replace Wayne Bennett it was Seibold's intention to move quickly to communicate his vision for the club and the team.

"Ultimately,  I don't believe in structured footy," Seibold said.

"I believe in a principle-based approach to how you play football and we'll work hard at implementing those principles and coming up with a game model that suits this particular group.

"I think any group you can mould. It doesn't matter if they are inexperienced or senior players. As a head coach, it is the environment you create and the processes you implement that shapes people. I'll do my best to shape a positive environment for those guys to be at their best. There is competition for spots... and I'm looking forward to seeing how hard the players work and how much they want to play."

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It didn't take long for Seibold to find out with hooker Andrew McCullough relishing being put through the wringer.

"I've certainly lost some weight. It was high intensity, which it needs to be," McCullough after Tuesday's training.

"We were bouncing from basic conditioning drill to basic defensive drills to ball skills.

"There was probably a nervous, unknown sort of vibe [at training] not having worked with not just Seibs, but the rest of the coaching staff. It is about finding out what they believe is the right thing to do and everyone getting on board with that.

"It is going to take time but that is what we are here for. It is exciting. Seibs hasn't had us for long so he has started on getting all the basics [right] in our game so we can be a better team."

McCullough said both Brisbane and South Sydney, after unveiling Bennett at Redfern on Tuesday, could now work towards 2019 with certainty while adding that Seibold had already given the Broncos a sense of purpose and clarity.

"Seibs is certainly knowledgeable and everyone is on the same page now, both players and staff," he said.

"I think both clubs are happy that it has all got cleaned up and we can move on to making 2019 real good."