Code Sports<\/a> after offering O\u2019Sullivan a $2.5 million deal \u2014 the richest contract ever for a NRL recruitment boss.<\/p>\nIt is understood to be a five-year deal worth $500,000 each season. The publication reported he was said to be on around $350,000 annually at the Knights. <\/p>\n
It will see O\u2019Sullivan reunite with Reece Walsh, who he convinced to leave the Broncos and join the Warriors in 2021. <\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan has extensive history in successful NRL roster-building, having overseen the transformation of 2026 finalists the Dolphins, Warriors and Roosters.<\/p>\n
It completes a busy week for the Newcastle recruitment boss, who told Code Sports that he was weighing up his options after Brisbane made an approach.<\/p>\n
New Broncos recruitment guru Peter O’Sullivan.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve just made the grand final so I wanted to give it a few days to think about it,\u201d O\u2019Sullivan told the publication.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s flattering to have interest from a club like the Broncos. They are a massive club and I\u2019m very honoured to be offered to be a part of the Broncos, but I\u2019ll see what works out for myself and my family and go from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a couple of options.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leniu joins Parramatta on four-year deal | 00:47<\/p>\n
McKinnon, who works as pathways recruitment analyst at the Knights, gave a glimpse into O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s recruiting genius in his foxsports.com.au column last week. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are two types of people that do recruitment. There are team builders and there are people who just sign talent. I feel like Sully\u2019s a real team builder,\u201d McKinnon wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe recognised that we weren\u2019t getting a lot of linebreaks out of dummy-half. So he goes and signs Harrison Graham. Then he is able to get that rotation going with Phoenix Crossland moving back to lock and then as a year went on, Graham started to be really creative around the middle of the ruck.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was able to identify Francis Manuleleua as a young emerging back row and pulled him out of Penrith, having also had experience with him at the Warriors as a player. Manuleleua has since emerged as a rising star in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan also went out and signed Dylan Brown onto a monster contract and brought in the unheralded Sandon Smith, who became a crucial piece of Newcastle\u2019s premiership push after Brown went down injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broncos have taken a giant step towards rebounding from their horror 2026 season after landing recruitment guru…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-921443","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\/921443","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=921443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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