{"id":593814,"date":"2026-04-08T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:13:14","slug":"nrl-news-2026-ben-teo-set-to-join-kevin-walters-kangaroos-coaching-staff-after-broncos-exit-michael-maguire-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593814\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Ben Te’o set to join Kevin Walters Kangaroos coaching staff after Broncos exit, Michael Maguire feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brought<\/p>\n

Brought to you by TAB.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Kangaroos<\/a> coach Kevin Walters<\/a> has revealed he wants to land former Broncos<\/a> assistant Ben Te’o<\/a> for his staff ahead of this year’s Rugby League World Cup.<\/p>\n

Te’o quit the Broncos last month<\/a> after a falling out with Michael Maguire<\/a>, just months after they helped the club snap a 19-year premiership drought.<\/p>\n

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The former Rabbitohs premiership winner had been linked with Billy Slater<\/a>‘s Maroons coaching staff both prior to and after his exit from Red Hill.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old told Triple M’s Saturday Scrum that he had not engaged in formal talks about working during this year’s State of Origin series.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Te’o left the Broncos in messy fashion.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

“No conversations as yet. Obviously I’m a free agent at the moment,” Te’o said.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure those type of conversations will happen over the next few months.”<\/p>\n

While nothing has happened on the coaching front just yet for Te’o, it could come soon.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Wide World Of Sports’ QLDER this week, Walters was quizzed about whether he wanted Te’o on the Australian staff and made his feelings clear.<\/p>\n

“He’s certainly in my sights,” Walters said.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to have him on the staff, he’s a very good young coach. I like his personality as well, he’s not too heated and he’s very calm around situations from what I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

“He would be a good addition to the group if we can make that happen.”<\/p>\n

\"Australia<\/p>\n

Kevin Walters took over as Kangaroos coach last year.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Te’o would be a quality addition to the Kangaroos set-up if Walters can get it over the line, in what looms as the green and gold’s toughest World Cup test since 2008.<\/p>\n

It would also add an extra layer to the never-ending soap opera surrounding Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Walters was the man who signed Te’o as an assistant coach prior to being sacked at the end of 2024 and was replaced by Maguire, who honoured the existing deal.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears as though Walters will get one back over the man who replaced him in the Broncos hot seat, provided Te’o is open to committing to the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

Maguire and Te’o had a relationship dating back to their time at South Sydney when they won a premiership together in 2014 as coach and player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brought to you by TAB.\u00a0Nine Kangaroos coach Kevin Walters has revealed he wants to land former Broncos assistant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-593814","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\/593814","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=593814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}