Manly have pulled off a trans-Tasman cross-code coup by luring World Cup-winning All Blacks coach Sir Steve Hansen to the NRL club as their football performance director.<\/p>\n
Widely considered a tactical master in rugby union, Sir Steve guided New Zealand to victory at the 2015 World Cup, and was named World Rugby’s coach of the year four times.<\/p>\n
During his stint as All Blacks coach from 2012 to 2019, the team lost just 10 of 107 Tests.<\/p>\n
With a reputation for creating a strong team culture, Sir Steve will work closely with Kieran Foran and Manly’s football department. <\/p>\n
Rookie coach Foran said he was excited by Sir Steve’s recruitment.<\/p>\n
“To have someone of Steve Hansen’s experience, knowledge and proven record of building winning cultures joining our football department is a massive opportunity for this club,” Foran said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n
“I have enormous respect for Steve and what he has achieved. He is one of the greatest sporting minds of his generation, and I am incredibly excited to work with him and learn from him.”<\/p>\n
Sir Steve felt Manly had a bright future under Foran, who took over as coach mid-season, with the club finishing ninth to narrowly miss the finals.<\/p>\n
“I’m really excited to be joining the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and to be part of a club that is steeped in history, success and a strong sporting identity,” Sir Steve said.<\/p>\n
“There is a lot to like about what Manly is building, and I’m particularly looking forward to working with Kieran and CEO Jason King.”<\/p>\n
Sir Steve joins Freddie Michalak in the NRL, with the French rugby legend an assistant at Cronulla, while former Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has been assisting at the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n
Sir Steve spent a brief time with the Wallabies in an advisory role ahead of the 2023 World Cup, before shifting to Japan in a consultancy position with the Toyota Verblitz club.<\/p>\n
He had a stint in late 2020 with Canterbury, brought in by then coach Trent Barrett who had spent time learning from Sir Steve within the All Blacks camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly have pulled off a trans-Tasman cross-code coup by luring World Cup-winning All Blacks coach Sir Steve Hansen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[10751,64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-887828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-all-blacks","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\/887828","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=887828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}