{"id":144165,"date":"2025-09-15T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144165\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:00:07","slug":"nrl-news-2025-newcastle-knights-to-appoint-justin-holbrook-as-head-coach-michael-cheika-firms-for-roosters-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144165\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025 | Newcastle Knights to appoint Justin Holbrook as head coach, Michael Cheika firms for Roosters role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Titans coach and current Roosters assistant Justin Holbrook is on the cusp of being appointed to the Newcastle job vacated by Adam O&#8217;Brien, with the Knights set to rubber stamp the appointment at a board meeting on Monday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/holbrook-set-to-be-appointed-as-knights-coach-as-cheika-firms-for-roosters-gig-20250915-p5mv5q.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-fwzISk cUNjoh\">reports The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That decision will open the door for rugby union super coach Michael Cheika to fulfil a long-held ambition of giving an NRL job a crack, with the former Wallabies mentor at the front of the queue to replace Holbrook at the Roosters.<\/p>\n<p>Cheika has a close relationship with Roosters head coach Trent Robinson and has recently reaffirmed his desire to test himself in the NRL, confirming his interest on both Nine&#8217;s Freddy and the Eighth and Inside Line.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Titans coach and current Roosters assistant Justin Holbrook is on the cusp of being appointed to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-144165","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\/144165","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=144165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}