{"id":426527,"date":"2026-01-20T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:59:10","slug":"graham-responds-to-english-coaching-link-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426527\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham responds to English coaching link – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former English forward James Graham<\/a> has revealed he has not been approached, and would likely feel out of his depth, if he were offered the England<\/a> coaching job.<\/p>\n

Fresh off a 3-0 whitewash loss to Australia<\/a> in the Ashes, England<\/a> is looking for a new coach after cutting ties with Shaun Wane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has been theorised in recent times by super coach Wayne Bennett<\/a>, who also coached England<\/a> at one point, that Sam Burgess<\/a>, who is currently coaching in the English Super League<\/a>, could team up with James Graham<\/a> to co-coach the nation.<\/p>\n

The pair have playing experience on both sides of the world, and while Burgess is now coaching in the Super League<\/a>, Graham is cutting out a successful media career in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his The Bye Round Podcast, Graham said that, while he has been half-daydreaming about it, he has not been approached and would feel out of his depth taking over for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

“I have not been approached by anyone, and it’s weird cause my first instinct would be no because I don’t feel like I’ve got the runs on the board to take on such a serious job in such a serious tournament,\u201d he said on the podcast.<\/p>\n

“Part of me thinks I’ll be doing it an injustice, and that is the initial genuine response. I care about England’s chances of winning, and I don’t know if me being in the camp does that mean (I’m a) bit selfish.<\/p>\n

“We all day dream about what we do or what we don’t do. I have been half day-dreaming about me and Sam getting at each other.”<\/p>\n

It’s understood Australian assistant Willie Peters<\/a>, who is also coaching in the Super League<\/a>, is the favourite to take over the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former English forward James Graham has revealed he has not been approached, and would likely feel out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-426527","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\/426527","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=426527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}