{"id":132861,"date":"2025-09-10T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132861\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:38:09","slug":"nrl-news-2025-perth-bears-sign-dane-campbell-as-head-of-recruitment-from-brisbane-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132861\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025, Perth Bears sign Dane Campbell as head of recruitment from Brisbane Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perth Bears<\/a> have landed a major signing coup that will allow the club to ramp up its player recruitment spree.<\/p>\n

Nine’s Danny Weidler reports the Bears have locked in Dane Campbell as head of recruitment.<\/p>\n

Campbell is currently working at Brisbane<\/a> but has told the Broncos he is leaving to join the NRL<\/a>‘s new franchise.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Ange ‘gamble’ probed as major issue laid bare<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE: Giddey inks $150m deal to end contract standoff<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE: ‘Exhausted’ Knights fan’s week from hell after final humiliation<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bears will enter the competition in 2027 and can start signing players from November 1.<\/p>\n

Campbell will be in charge of the recruiting process and will have a blank canvas to work with, with a full squad of 30 players to fill before the 2027 season kicks off.<\/p>\n

While the Bears have not yet been allowed to officially sign any players, they have been linked to several.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Perth<\/p>\n

Perth Bears head coach Mal Meninga shakes hands with NRL CEO Andrew Abdo as Bears CEO Anthony De Ceglie looks on.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Gold Coast captain and Origin forward Tino Fa’asuamaleaui looms as the big fish Campbell will be looking to hook for the club’s inaugural season.<\/p>\n

Reports had previously claimed head coach Mal Meninga was trying to poach Titans recruitment chief Ezra Howe to the role.<\/p>\n

Campbell is only the fourth employee to sign on with the Bears.<\/p>\n

Meninga will be head coach and will be assisted by Ben Gardiner, while Anthony De Ceglie is the club’s CEO.<\/p>\n

Weidler reports Ian Millward will be the fifth employee after agreeing to a head of pathways role.<\/p>\n

A nine-person board convened for its second meeting just last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears have landed a major signing coup that will allow the club to ramp up its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-132861","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\/132861","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=132861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}