{"id":94692,"date":"2025-08-25T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94692\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:57:10","slug":"laidlaw-stepping-down-as-head-coach-of-league-ones-d-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94692\/","title":{"rendered":"Laidlaw stepping down as head coach of League One&#8217;s D-Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; Japan Rugby League One club Urayasu D-Rocks announced Monday that Greig Laidlaw is stepping down as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old former Scotland scrumhalf will remain with Urayasu as executive club ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Laidlaw stepped into a coaching role for the D-Rocks after finishing his playing career at the club in 2023 and was promoted to head coach ahead of the 2024-2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Urayasu finished that campaign bottom of the League One first division but avoided the drop to the second division by winning a promotion and relegation playoff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"main-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_bde93a8891598d84804638d827dc12ed1653257.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"635\" height=\"502\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nFile photo shows Urayasu D-Rocks head coach Greig Laidlaw (L) and captain Ren Iinuma at a press conference in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Aug. 28, 2024. (Kyodo)&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8211; Japan Rugby League One club Urayasu D-Rocks announced Monday that Greig Laidlaw is stepping down as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-94692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94692","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=94692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}