{"id":133161,"date":"2025-09-10T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133161\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:18:07","slug":"steve-diamond-thriving-under-pressure-as-he-faces-job-threat-head-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133161\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Diamond thriving under pressure as he faces job threat head on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newcastle<\/a> Red Bulls<\/a> boss Steve Diamond admits that he isn\u2019t bothered by speculation that his job is already under threat, just weeks after the Austrian-owned energy drinks giant took over the club.<\/p>\n

Gregor Townsend was apparently a target for Newcastle\u2019s new owners before committing his future to Scotland<\/a> until after the 2027 Rugby World Cup<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n

However, Diamond is known as one of rugby\u2019s great survivors and for facing challenges head-on, making him the ideal choice to rebuild Newcastle.<\/p>\n

It was a task he had completed at Sale Sharks<\/a> and had started with Worcester<\/a> Warriors, until the rug was pulled from under him. He now states that it\u2019s up to everyone to take on the challenge Red Bull has set.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful for what\u2019s happened. The good thing is that it\u2019s put everyone under pressure already to produce and deliver, and to show that you are good enough to be involved with a company like Red Bull,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd hopefully, all of us can take that opportunity. We are learning all the time, and every day is a learning day. It\u2019s a pleasure to come to work looking bright-eyed and at white skies as opposed to the gloom of the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are the head coach or whatever role you\u2019ve got, in sport, you have to get results. I\u2019ve never hidden away from that one, but I always think that the pressure is good. I have been an advocate for relegation all my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that has gone out of the game. I think it brings jeopardy. Coming to work with a cigar in your mouth and feet on the table, thinking you have got a job for life, isn\u2019t good, and I have never operated like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, there is speculation around that, of course, there is, and it is always going to be speculation when a company like Red Bull get involved in rugby when it hasn\u2019t happened before. They do say that diamonds are forged by pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls boss Steve Diamond admits that he isn\u2019t bothered by speculation that his job is already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-133161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133161","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=133161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}