{"id":206406,"date":"2025-10-11T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206406\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:25:08","slug":"something-i-want-to-do-when-will-willie-peters-be-coaching-in-the-nrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206406\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Something I want to do\u2019: When will Willie Peters be coaching in the NRL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s just won an historic Super League treble with Hull KR and will be Kevin Walters\u2019 right-hand man in the upcoming Ashes series.<\/p>\n<p>So, when can we expect to see Willie Peters coaching in the NRL?<\/p>\n<p>Sydney born and raised, the 46-year-old played 76 NRL games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbitohs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dragons<\/a> between 1997-2003.<\/p>\n<p>After holding assistant coaching roles with Manly, Souths and Newcastle, he linked with Hull KR as head coach at the end of the 2022 season and has turned the Yorkshire club\u2019s fortunes around with three straight finals appearances capped with the 2025 Super League title.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a data-testid=\"card--article-thumbnail\" role=\"article\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/australia-kangaroos-france-two-matches-rugby-league-ashes\/d752842641f02843aac29bf2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ashes countdown\u2014Kangaroos to clash with France in two &#8216;match&#8217; series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With every NRL coaching vacancy in 2025, it seems the reigning Super League coach of the year has been mentioned as a potential replacement\u2014and understandably so.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle was reported to be very keen to interview Peters for their vacant coaching position after firing Adam O\u2019Brien in late August, however Peters declined in order to maintain his focus on guiding Hull KR towards the Super League playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want any distractions at the back end of the year with Hull KR and what we\u2019re doing and where we\u2019re going,\u201d Peters said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to tell the players that we need to be committed for the next six weeks if I\u2019m interviewing for jobs in the NRL and then come back and tell them that I\u2019m back in, it doesn\u2019t work like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When that is? I\u2019m not sure\u2019 says Peters<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t to say a return home to coach in the NRL isn\u2019t on the horizon, despite having a contract with Hull KR that runs for three more seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got it in my goals to coach in the NRL but one thing I\u2019ve learnt is not to think too far ahead,\u201d Peters said on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SENLeague\/status\/1976165737824911546\" rel=\"nofollow\">SEN\u00a0radio<\/a> ahead of the Super League grand final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m contracted (with Hull KR) to 2028, but it\u2019s something I want to do\u2014when that is? I\u2019m not sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing that is for sure is almost every NRL club will have Peters\u2019 name at the top of their coaching shortlist should the 2026 season not go according to plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s just won an historic Super League treble with Hull KR and will be Kevin Walters\u2019 right-hand man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-206406","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\/206406","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=206406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}