{"id":41280,"date":"2025-08-03T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41280\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:43:11","slug":"three-nrl-assistants-in-the-frame-for-vacant-head-coaching-job-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41280\/","title":{"rendered":"Three NRL assistants in the frame for vacant head coaching job – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three NRL<\/a> assistant coaches have found themselves linked with a vacant head coaching position overseas as the club looks set to make an official decision within the next five days.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Love Rugby League<\/a>, <\/a>NRL<\/a> assistants Daniel Holdsworth<\/a> <\/a>(Cronulla Sharks<\/a>), <\/a>Jim Lenihan<\/a> <\/a>(Gold Coast Titans<\/a>) and Michael Crawley (Canberra Raiders<\/a>) have all emerged as candidates for the vacant Castleford Tigers<\/a> head coaching position.<\/p>\n

While the trio have now been linked to the vacant coaching position, it is understood that St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> assistant Ryan Carr<\/a> remains the favourite for the gig.<\/p>\n

A decision is set to be made on Friday.<\/p>\n

“I’ve spoken to certain individuals over the last seven days, and I’ve got a couple more calls to make and a couple of interviews at the back end of this week, and early next week,” Castleford Director of Rugby Chris Chester said via\u00a0All Out Rugby League.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve narrowed the search down to five, and we’ll interview those five over the next few days.<\/p>\n

“We have a board meeting next Friday, and I’d like to think by next Friday, that we’ll have announced a head coach. That’s certainly the plan.”<\/p>\n

\"NRLSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 22: <\/a>Daniel Holdsworth<\/a> of the Sharks looks to offload the ball during the round three NRL<\/a> match between the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> at Remondis Stadium on March 22, 2014 in Sydney, <\/a>Australia<\/a>. <\/a>(Photo by Matt Blyth\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A former NRL<\/a> playmaker for the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>, <\/a>St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> and Cronulla Sharks<\/a>, Holdsworth has been working on the Sharks coaching staff since 2019 and currently works alongside Josh Hannay<\/a>, underneath Craig Fitzgibbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lenihan is working under Des Hasler<\/a> at the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> and was once the club’s interim head coach in 2023 following the sacking of Justin Holbrook<\/a>. During this period, he recorded three wins in 11 matches.<\/p>\n

Crawley is the attacking coach at the Canberra Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three NRL assistant coaches have found themselves linked with a vacant head coaching position overseas as the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-41280","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\/41280","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=41280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}