{"id":622397,"date":"2026-04-21T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:46:09","slug":"former-nrl-star-signals-for-vacant-nsw-coaching-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622397\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL star signals for vacant NSW coaching gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former two-time premiership-winning five-eighth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/james-maloney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Maloney<\/a> has signalled his desire to become the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/nsw-blues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Blues<\/a> assistant coach for the 2026 series.<\/p>\n<p>On the Big Sports Breakfast radio show on Tuesday, it was revealed incumbent assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/dean-young\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Young<\/a> informed head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/laurie-daley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Daley<\/a> of his omission for the series this year.<\/p>\n<p>Young will be stepping into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> head coaching position in an interim role for the rest of the year to help get their season back on track after a zero and six start saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/shane-flanagan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Flanagan<\/a> part ways with the Red V.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has now turned the attention towards who will fill the role for Daley to help bring the shield back to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney revealed on news.com.au&#8217;s The Extended Bench that he wants to be a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/nsw-blues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a> coaching ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;d love to be involved in Origin. 100% I&#8217;d love to be involved in Origin,\u201d Maloney said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether that happens, I don&#8217;t know, but yeah, definitely it&#8217;s something I loved. I think I understand what works and how you have to play at that level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-time premiership-winning five-eighth James Maloney has signalled his desire to become the new NSW Blues assistant coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-622397","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\/622397","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=622397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}