Michael Maguire will join an elite group of coaching masters that includes his idols Jack Gibson and Wayne Bennett if he can guide Brisbane to NRL glory.

Excluding captain-coaches in the competition's early years, only five men have coached more than one team to a premiership.

Maguire, who broke South Sydney's 43-year premiership drought in 2014, will become the sixth if his Broncos can overcome perennial heavyweights Melbourne at Accor Stadium on Sunday.

[Michael Maguire] Michael Maguire led the Rabbitohs to a drought-breaking premiership in 2014. (Paul Miller/AAP PHOTOS)

He would join some of rugby league's most storied coaches. Bennett (Brisbane, St George Illawarra), Tim Sheens (Canberra, Wests Tigers), Chris Anderson (Canterbury, Melbourne), Phil Gould (Canterbury, Penrith) and Gi

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