{"id":182542,"date":"2025-10-01T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182542\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:45:07","slug":"newcastle-red-bulls-club-parts-company-with-director-of-rugby-steve-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182542\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls: Club parts company with director of rugby Steve Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle Red Bulls have parted company with director of rugby Steve Diamond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news comes after just one match of the new Prem season which the renamed Red Bulls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj6xn7yw313o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost 39-17<\/a> at home to Saracens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Diamond departs, Neil McIlroy will arrive on 1 November in the newly created role of sporting general manager, with responsibility for all rugby management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alan Dickins will take on the role of head coach, reporting to McIlroy, while Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend is to become a part-time adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3w52nx1q28o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on strategy and philosophy<\/a> for the north east club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diamond arrived at Kingston Park in January 2024 and led Newcastle through a difficult period with the club stuck at the bottom of the league, managing only two wins from 25 league games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previous owner Semore Kurdi put the club up for sale last November, and it was not until August that global energy drinks giants Red Bull completed its takeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A whole raft of players have arrived in a short space of time, but this is by far the most significant decision taken by the new owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls have parted company with director of rugby Steve Diamond. The news comes after just one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-182542","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\/182542","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=182542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}