The NSW Rugby League Board has today endorsed the appointment of True Blue and former captain Boyd Cordner to an assistant coach role with the 2026 Westpac NSW Blues.<\/p>\n
Cordner, 33, a member of the Westpac NSW Blues off-field staff as a Blue Shirt trainer in 2024-25, will replace Dean Young who stood down as defensive coach this week to focus on his new role as St George Illawarra Dragons NRL Interim Head Coach.<\/p>\n
Cordner, a former Sydney Roosters NRL Assistant Coach who currently coaches the Roosters UNE SG Ball Cup (Under 19s) side and is a member of the Roosters High Performance staff, played 16 games for NSW and was captain for the 2018-19 State of Origin series wins.<\/p>\n
Cordner said: \u201cIt is such a great honour and I am so excited about the opportunity to step into the role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will put everything I\u2019ve got into it. I have been in and around it learning off the coaches and I\u2019ve been a player in this arena so I understand what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Westpac NSW Blues Coach Laurie Daley said: \u201cBoyd has been a highly valuable member of the coaching staff the past couple of years and the players have a lot of respect for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has been forging his reputation as a coach in his own right and I am confident he will do a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW Rugby League Board has today endorsed the appointment of True Blue and former captain Boyd Cordner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-625305","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\/625305","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=625305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}