A football manager, club director, even a coach… all these are tempting for Ali Brigginshaw as she contemplates her future connection with rugby league despite ending her 16 year-career as a player.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She already has a meeting room named after her at Broncos\u2019 Red Hill headquarters in Brisbane after bringing the club four NRLW premiership trophies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And after being chaired off the Accor Stadium field following the NRLW grand final, Brigginshaw will begin 2027 as a Broncos club ambassador alongside other greats like Justin Hodges, Steve Renouf and Petero Civoniceva.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Brigginshaw is aiming a little higher and further with her post-playing goals than merely working with sponsors and members.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A more hands-on role in the administration of the women\u2019s game is what she\u2019s after especially from her viewpoint of beginning her first-class career in 2011 as a 22-year-old on debut for Australia – a clear seven years before the NRLW competition came into existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Roosters v Broncos \u2013 Grand Final,\u00a02026<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like because I\u2019ve played in the pre-NRLW time and now after a decade of NRLW I feel like I\u2019ve learnt a lot from those years and what the girls need in the game,\u201d Brigginshaw told NRL.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She is thinking her skills set would be valuable at club, state or NRL headquarters levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf someone could help guide me in that direction \u2013 a mentor or something like that \u2013 I\u2019d be more than open to it,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very passionate about the women\u2019s space and I want to see it get to where it needs to get to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Brigginshaw call the hardest to make<\/p>\n
Using her knowledge of working with players of different ages and developments, Brigginshaw is in a good position to apply for a NRLW head coach or assistant coach role \u2013 but she sees that being a few years away, perhaps as the game is ready to expand from the current 12-team competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI will obviously look at coaching down the track but for now I want to spend time with the family,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCoaches spend a lot of time away from their family. If I was going into coaching and going to be at the club just as much then I\u2019d still be playing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
What also holds some attraction is perhaps a football manager or even a seat of power \u2013 becoming a director on the Brisbane Broncos board or even at the Gold Coast Titans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the Broncos but I\u2019m also best friends with Murph (Titans head coach Karyn Murphy),” Brigginshaw said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had some really cool moments together and she\u2019s someone I hold up very highly.<\/p>\n
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Brigginshaw seals the win<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to be in and around the game and buy into what the next changes are that need to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my experience across the years, of both eras really, gives a lot of good perspective and knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going in there to complain \u2013 I just want the girls to have the best of the best, or in other words get to professionalism as quick as they can.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can put some support around that aim I will, because I feel like since I\u2019ve been around a long time I\u2019ve got a lot of respect of people within the game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But first she must flush two disappointments \u2013 Broncos losing the grand final and her omission from the Jillaroos 2026 World Cup squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Roosters v Broncos – Grand Final, 2025<\/p>\n
\u201cJust be around the family… enjoying them and looking forward to nights at home where I can cook dinner and we can watch a movie on the couch together,\u201d she said of time with wife Kate and children Addison and Alfie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hurts (losing grand final) but you\u2019d rather lose to the best.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Roosters put on a near-perfect performance \u2013 the loss from last year really burnt a hole in them and they came out and played awesome.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A football manager, club director, even a coach… all these are tempting for Ali Brigginshaw as she contemplates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-917657","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\/917657","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=917657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}