There are rumours of a rift between the players and the coach at the Brisbane Broncos which comes just at the wrong time for the club coming off two disappointing losses.

Apparently Michael Maguire has lost the sheds and the players have been described as "lacking effort".

Injured Broncos Half Ben Hunt told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, ""There's obviously plenty of noise going out there at the moment, but no, mate, he definitely hasn't lost the playing group."

"Whenever you play in Brisbane, you lose a couple of games, there always seems to be a lot of noise starting to pop up on the outside.

"We're still going strong here, we just had a couple of setbacks, but now everything's going well," Ben Hunt said.

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