confirmed<\/a> his interest in joining Walters’ staff, but admitted that he hadn’t yet been contacted about the opportunity.<\/p>\n“I haven\u2019t spoken to him as of yet,” Peters said.<\/p>\n
“If the phone rings – I don\u2019t have Kevin Walters\u2019 number – but I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll answer it. I\u2019m certainly not going to hang up on him.”<\/p>\n
Peters’ phone is set to ring plenty in the coming months as he’s been heavily linked to the newly\u00a0 available coaching gig in Newcastle.<\/p>\n
The 46-year-old has experience in the NRL system, both as a player for his time with the Rabbitohs and Dragons, and his assistant coaching role with Manly.<\/p>\n
If a return to Australian shores is in Peters’ future, it would likely mean an advisory role on Walter’s staff would be off the table.<\/p>\n
Australia’s 2025 tour of England will take place from late October to early November, which will force players and staff to miss the opening stages of pre-season training for their NRL clubs.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, with Gordon Tallis already\u00a0pencilled in to one of the assistant coach openings, Peters would be a valuable sounding board for the newly appointed Australian coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kangaroos coach Kevin Walters has sounded out the Super League coaching ranks ahead of the Ashes tour in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-102422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}