{"id":173675,"date":"2025-09-27T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173675\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:27:12","slug":"nrl-2025-titans-mcdermott-to-join-hannays-titans-coaching-staff-in-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173675\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2025: Titans, McDermott to join Hannay&#8217;s Titans coaching staff in &#8217;26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Titans will welcome the English Super League\u2019s most successful mentor with Brian McDermott joining the club as an assistant coach from 2026.<\/p>\n<p>He will form part of Josh Hannay\u2019s new-look football staff, bringing over 30 years of rugby league experience as both a player and mentor to the Coast.<\/p>\n<p>This includes four Super League titles in charge of the Leeds Rhinos, as well as Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge victories alongside three premierships as a player.<\/p>\n<p>McDermott made the move to Australia in 2023 to take up a role with the Newcastle Knights where he has been an assistant to Adam O\u2019Brien for the last two seasons, ahead of his move to the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brian\u2019s record speaks for itself,&#8221; Titans CEO Steve Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s one of the most respected minds in the game and what excites us most is the knowledge and professionalism he will bring to our coaching team under Josh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know he\u2019ll play a significant role in developing our squad and helping us achieve sustained success and we can\u2019t wait to welcome him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McDermott will begin with the Titans from November with the club to finalise their 2026 football staff ahead of the NRL squad returning for pre-season training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Titans will welcome the English Super League\u2019s most successful mentor with Brian McDermott joining the club as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-173675","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\/173675","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=173675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}