The on-field behaviour of NRL trainers delivered some of the more controversial moments during the 2025 season and, belatedly, it seems the NRL is about to act.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Telegraph, the NRL is preparing to ban \u2018blue shirt\u2019 trainers from entering the field during play in 2026.<\/p>\n
NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo sent a proposal to club bosses this week, floating changes that would significantly limit the times when blue shirt trainers are allowed on the field.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the changes would mean blue shirt trainers are only allowed to enter the field of play after tries have been scored, or during stoppages in play for a goal line drop out.<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0Australian sporting calendar 2026\u2014All the major events, key dates to mark in your diary<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBlue trainers will no longer be permitted access for tactical messages during play,\u201d Abdo wrote<\/a>, explaining trainers will also not be allowed to loiter on the field at any time.<\/p>\n \u201cMessages will only be permitted after a try has been scored.\u201d<\/p>\n Abdo also explained that after a try has been scored, all trainers for the conceding team must remain with their players until after the conversion is attempted\u2014a change clearly intended to prevent a repeat of last season\u2019s Round 22 incident that saw Penrith trainer Corey Bocking\u00a0run directly across the path of Gold Coast Titans<\/a> goal kicker Jayden Campbell.<\/p>\n Each team\u2019s medically qualified \u2018orange shirt\u2019 head trainer will still have unlimited access to the playing field, allowing them to attend to injured players.<\/p>\n However the NRL has also indicated that orange shirt trainers must not communicate with uninjured players when on the field\u2014something that could prove almost impossible to realistically enforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The on-field behaviour of NRL trainers delivered some of the more controversial moments during the 2025 season and,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-382010","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\/382010","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=382010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}