{"id":223745,"date":"2025-10-18T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223745\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:37:07","slug":"off-season-central-souths-keen-to-extend-wayne-bennett-png-chiefs-interested-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223745\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-season central, Souths keen to extend Wayne Bennett, PNG Chiefs interested, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rabbitohs have confirmed their desire to sign coach Wayne Bennett to an extension beyond his current deal.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett is under contract with the Bunnies until the end of 2027. The ARL Commission are on the record saying they want Bennett to lead the PNG expansion side when they enter the competition in 2028, but Rabbitohs CEO Blake Solly is hoping to keep the legendary coach in red and myrtle. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the ARLC will be interested in Wayne taking a role with the PNG team but we are very keen for him to stay beyond his current deal,\u201d Solly told<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/rabbitohs-prepare-wayne-bennett-extension-that-would-see-him-become-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-coaches-as-png-lurk\/news-story\/59b7ae87da541cbe2f5d5beed1411006\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of the Kangaroos\u2019 Tour of the UK LIVE on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? 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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we\u2019ll have those discussions over this off-season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the Rabbitohs want to strike a deal with Bennett before Christmas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-peter-vlandys-in-talks-with-wayne-bennett-over-coaching-papua-new-guinea-chiefs-consultancy-rabbitohs\/news-story\/55df23e9c86dfc5b33b2147c4a52c525\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">but they will have some opposition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NRL boss Peter V\u2019landys says if Bennett\u2019s available, he\u2019ll be \u201cthe first bloke\u201d called regarding a gig with the PNG Chiefs. <\/p>\n<p>The two parties are reportedly in talks, but while V\u2019landys would prefer Bennett as coach, the Souths boss is reportedly more interested in a consultancy role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we want Wayne Bennett involved,\u201d V\u2019landys told The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can ask Wayne if he wants to coach, but we will use him in whatever capacity would be suitable to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rabbitohs have confirmed their desire to sign coach Wayne Bennett to an extension beyond his current deal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[115333,64,63,689,40696,135807,19307,17343,3739,763,2105,5330,135806,60457,27296,673,677,52948,27284,49652,760,4439,85,670,1651],"class_list":["post-223745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-arl-commission","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-blake-solly","tag-consultancy-role","tag-cook-islands","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-fiji","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-head-coach","tag-legendary-coach","tag-mark-metcalfe","tag-melanesia","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-off-season-central","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-port-moresby","tag-rugby","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-wayne-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223745","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=223745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}