{"id":106699,"date":"2025-08-30T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:09:09","slug":"des-hasler-makes-shock-career-call-after-titans-axing-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106699\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Hasler makes shock career call after Titans axing – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the greatest rugby league coaches of all time, Des Hasler<\/a>, has had a career that most would only dream of.<\/p>\n

He’d be forgiven for riding off into the sunset, and after the collapse of his tenure with the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, he’s earned some time away from rugby league.<\/p>\n

Despite that, the 64-year-old says he isn’t done, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, with no thoughts of retirement lingering in his mind.<\/p>\n

“I really enjoy coaching and will survey the landscape once I’ve had a bit of a break,” Hasler said in his first interview since the announcement of his departure from the Titans.<\/p>\n

“I’ll head back down to Sydney, assess everything and check out the lay of the land.<\/p>\n

“We’ll see what happens going forward.”<\/p>\n

While Hasler was clear that he would need to weigh up his options moving forward, he squashed any calls of him needing to hang up the coach’s whistle.<\/p>\n

“It’s not retirement,” Hasler declared.<\/p>\n

\"GoldGOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA – NOVEMBER 07: Head Coach Des Hasler<\/a> looks on during a Gold Coast Titans<\/a> NRL<\/a> training session at Parkwood Village on November 07, 2023 in Gold Coast, Australia<\/a>. (Photo by Chris Hyde\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

You’d think the rocky end to his Titans tenure would have left a bad taste in his mouth; however, the veteran coach was full of praise for the club when asked if he had any regrets.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing, in hindsight,” he admitted.<\/p>\n

“It’s been great to see players really develop here. Tino is a world-class leader on and off the field.<\/p>\n

“Keano Kini<\/a> has represented his country, JC [Jayden Campbell<\/a>] is going to be a wonderful seven, AJ Brimson<\/a> has had his best season of football, and there are many other players on the rise.”<\/p>\n

His departure has made way for Josh Hannay<\/a>, who will lead the Titans out in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the greatest rugby league coaches of all time, Des Hasler, has had a career that most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-106699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106699","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=106699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}