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Jason Demetriou’s tenure with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> was not one to write home about.<\/p>\n

A turbulent few years in Redfern that saw the now-London Broncos head coach axed from the club, Demetriou has admitted that only lessons came from the experience.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Sky Sports’ The Bench, he spoke about what he learned from coaching in the NRL<\/a>, and how he’s better equipped as a leader now.<\/p>\n

“I’m quite passionate as a coach,” he said<\/p>\n

“[However] being able to stay emotionally in control of the way I’m thinking and feeling at certain times, I think I’ve done a lot of work on that type of thing.”<\/p>\n

\"SouthSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 09: Rabbitohs assistant coach Jason Demetriou talks to Rabbitohs head coach Wayne Bennett during a South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL training session at Redfern Oval on March 09, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He admitted that the role of an NRL<\/a> coach far exceeded game plans and box scores, with an entire club looking to him for a way forward.<\/p>\n

“The thing about going to the NRL<\/a> as a head coach is that it’s not just about coaching a footy team,” Demetriou said.<\/p>\n

“It’s huge in terms of managing a group of staff\u2026 we had 30-odd staff working for us, as well as 40-odd players.<\/p>\n

“All that type of stuff, you take some lessons from.”<\/p>\n

He went on to highlight how earning the role at \u201cone of the biggest clubs in the world\u201d was not luck, crediting his hard work as a reason to continue believing in himself.<\/p>\n

“You learn a lot from the good times, but you learn a hell of a lot more from the bad times,” he said of his struggles, which were often criticised by fans and media alike.<\/p>\n

“It was tough, it was tough on my family, particularly when things are said on social media.”<\/p>\n

Despite his troubles, he admitted none of it stopped him \u201cfrom wanting to be a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he has ambitions to return to the NRL<\/a> after his three-year deal with the Broncos, he responded emphatically.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, for sure,” he said of an NRL<\/a> comeback.<\/p>\n

“I’m not content with how [my NRL<\/a> coaching career] finished, and I know I’ve got more to offer, and I showed that in my first 40-something games in charge [at the Rabbitohs].<\/p>\n

“We made a preliminary final [and were at the] top of the NRL<\/a> table.”<\/p>\n

With his NRL<\/a> coaching dream still very well alive, it may just be a matter of time before we see Demetriou back in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Demetriou’s tenure with the South Sydney Rabbitohs was not one to write home about. A turbulent few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-313547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313547","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=313547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}