The fallout from the Broncos late night pokies visit and their loss to Parramatta shows that Anthony Seibold is on the cusp losing the dressing room.

That’s the view of Daily Telegraph journalists Paul Kent and Paul Crawley on NRL360 on Fox League.

In the biggest game of the season, Brisbane capitulated in a 58-0 loss.

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And after reports emerged on Tuesday that a group of senior players had visited a pub less than 24 hours before a game, a number of club greats including Wally Lewis and Darren Lockyer slammed the club’s culture.

“Regardless of there’s any drink involved,” Lockyer said. “If you’re out until 11 o’clock the night before a game in an establishment like that it doesn’t set a good example of how much the game means to you. It’s disappointing.”

And speaking on NRL360, Crawley and Kent suggested that this indicated a wider problem that Seibold had lost the dressing room and the support of the players as they went behind his back to take a trip to a bar the night before the most important game of their season.

“After that loss the other night I sit there and we listen to his media conference,” said Crawley. “And the whole way through it was like he distanced himself from the disaster, he separated himself from the players.

“He didn’t take ownership of the result. He spoke about the club and the team and where it is at, But not necessarily saying I’m in charge of this.

“Then he was talking about the younger players who don’t want to toss up excuses. He’d been talking about excuses throughout that.

“Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve no doubt in the world he was talking about players within that squad who hadn’t given it everything they had, and to me that raises a bigger issue — that there are players here that he’s lost.”

Kent agreed, and said the trip to the pub could be a tipping point for Seibold’s future at Brisbane.

“I think you’re right,” Kent said. “I think Saturday night at the pub was an indication that the old ‘lost the dressing room’, I think the Broncos are right on that point now. And it can go either way.”