{"id":135634,"date":"2025-09-11T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135634\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:36:12","slug":"hull-kr-boss-willie-peters-explains-why-he-turned-down-chance-to-interview-for-nrl-job-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135634\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull KR boss Willie Peters explains why he turned down chance to interview for NRL job \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/hull-kr-boss-willie-peters-explains-why-he-turned-down-chance-to-interview-for-nrl-job\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Hull KR boss Willie Peters explains why he turned down chance to interview for NRL job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW6_3222-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HULL KR head coach Willie Peters has explained that he didn\u2019t want \u201cany distractions\u201d towards the back end of the 2025 Super League season after turning down the opportunity to be interviewed for the vacant Newcastle Knights job.<\/p>\n<p>With Adam O\u2019Brien set to exit the Hunter club at the end of the current campaign, speculation has been mounting as to who will take over.<\/p>\n<p>Peters\u2019 name has been mentioned, especially when considering the way in which he has transformed Rovers\u2019 fortunes on the field.<\/p>\n<p>The former halfback has guided Rovers to two Challenge Cup Finals and one Super League Grand Final, winning one and losing two.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph writer Buzz Rothfield revealed over the weekend that Peters had rejected the chance to interview for the Newcastle job.<\/p>\n<p>And now Peters himself has revealed why he took the decision to knock back a chance to interview for the number one position at his former club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want any distractions for this back end of the year with Hull KR, where we\u2019re going and what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my sole focus to prepare these players and work with the staff to make sure that we give this back end of the year what it deserves and that\u2019s putting everything into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to say to the players that we need to be committed for the next six weeks if I\u2019m there going to interview for jobs in the NRL and then come back and say \u2018boys, I\u2019m back in now\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t work like that, you need to be 100 per cent committed to what you\u2019re doing. I\u2019m not going to interview. I\u2019m very comfortable to say that in terms of my focus is what I\u2019m doing to prepare these players to hopefully put ourselves in a position to go and get the treble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be an unbelievable achievement for the club. There\u2019s a lot to go in that but that\u2019s where it stands, my focus is here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HULL KR head coach Willie Peters has explained that he didn\u2019t want \u201cany distractions\u201d towards the back end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-135634","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\/135634","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=135634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}