{"id":221640,"date":"2025-10-18T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221640\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:12:09","slug":"cameron-munster-breaks-silence-on-bellamy-titans-links-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221640\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Munster breaks silence on Bellamy-Titans links – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne Storm<\/a> star Cameron Munster<\/a> has broken his silence on links between his coach Craig Bellamy<\/a> and the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, admitting that he “would never stand in his way” if he were to leave his current position.<\/p>\n

Regarded as one of the best to ever coach in the NRL<\/a> alongside Ivan Cleary<\/a>, Jack Gibson, Tim Sheens<\/a> and Wayne Bennett<\/a>, Bellamy has led the Storm to five premierships and 11 Grand Final appearances since being appointed in 2003.<\/p>\n

However, this hasn’t stopped him from being linked with a shock exit from the club and a move to the Gold Coast at the end of his current deal that expires in 2026.<\/p>\n

While the Titans remain committed to Josh Hannay’s three-year contract, it’s understood the club would promote Bellamy to head coach should they land the multi-time premiership winner from 2027 onwards.<\/p>\n

Speaking for the first time since rumours emerged linking Bellamy with the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> head coaching job for the 2027 NRL<\/a> season, Munster wants him to do what is best for him and his family.
“If that is what he thinks is best for him and his family, I would never stand in his way, and I don’t think the club would either,” Munster told The Daily Telegraph.<\/a><\/p>\n

“He has done so much for the game and our club that I don’t think anyone would be filthy enough to tell him that he couldn’t leave.<\/p>\n

“I know he has ties there (on the Gold Coast) with his daughter, Rach, and he loves the \u2018Goldie’ and the weather.<\/p>\n

“He has done everything he can at the club for 23 years as a head coach, so to go out on his terms would be pretty special. A lot of other coaches don’t get that opportunity.<\/p>\n

“For him to say, \u2018I’m going to leave on my terms’, is a testament to him and how hard he has worked. But at the same time, he would be sorely missed.”<\/p>\n

\"ThreeCraig Bellamy, after being awarded the Coach Of The Year Award in 2019. Picture: Brett Costello<\/p>\n

While the Queensland skipper would totally back Bellamy’s decision whether he was to stay or leave, he did admit that it would be weird to see him coaching at a club other than the Storm.<\/p>\n

Although he started his coaching career as an assistant under Wayne Bennett<\/a> at the Brisbane Broncos<\/a>, Bellamy has coached over 600 matches at the Storm since his appointment in 2003, but was named the head coach twice at Brisbane in 2002 on an interim basis.<\/p>\n

“A mentoring role I can understand, where clubs want to get him to use his knowledge. But to be the head coach of another club would be a different feeling for everyone,” Munster added.<\/p>\n

“Even fans would be saying, \u2018I don’t know if I’m a big fan of that’.<\/p>\n

“But it is what it is. It felt different when Cooper Cronk<\/a> went to the Roosters.<\/p>\n

“(Bellamy) hasn’t spoken to me about it, and I don’t know whether he would talk to me about it, but if he does go, I would definitely miss him.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, if he thinks that is best for his family, I’m all for it. He is so special, and I respect him so much.<\/p>\n

“He will go down as one of the all-time great coaches, and I am very lucky to say I have been coached by him. There is always media speculation, but I haven’t heard it from the horse’s mouth. It’s an interesting one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm star Cameron Munster has broken his silence on links between his coach Craig Bellamy and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-221640","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\/221640","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=221640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}