{"id":948637,"date":"2026-11-01T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948637\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:52:13","slug":"roosters-identify-coaches-to-join-their-nrl-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948637\/","title":{"rendered":"Roosters identify coaches to join their NRL staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Sam Walker<\/a> saga rattles Bondi, Trent Robinson<\/a> is quietly promoting coaches internally to join his staff for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

The Roosters’ response has been to look to its own past.<\/p>\n

Robinson will have two of his former premiership-winning players join his coaching staff, filling the gaps left by the departure of Matt King<\/a> and Michael Cheika<\/a>, who will head to rugby union at the NSW Waratahs and the NSW Blues<\/a> in State of Origin<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

According to The Daily Telegraph, Sam Moa<\/a> will leave the Parramatta Eels<\/a> under Jason Ryles<\/a> to return to the Sydney Roosters<\/a> and promote Brett Morris<\/a>, who was coaching the NSW Cup<\/a> side for the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

Morris helped the NSW Cup<\/a> side reach the finals this past season after missing the finals in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

Moa was part of Robinson’s premiership-winning side in 2013 and will reunite with his coach on the Roosters staff.<\/p>\n

Familiar faces will stay at the Roosters, with Tait Barnes remaining, as well as Nick Davis, the former Sydney Swans premiership winner in the AFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davis will continue to coach kicking and catching across the club.<\/p>\n

Morris’ promotion leaves a vacancy in the NSW Cup<\/a> side, and the Roosters have elected Paul Momirovski<\/a> to step in his place.<\/p>\n

The former multi-NRL club premiership-winning centre coached the Roosters’ Harold Matthews Cup<\/a> side, the club’s junior representative side last season.<\/p>\n

Former Roosters Shaun Kenny-Dowall<\/a> will become the club’s Academy and Harold Matthews Cup<\/a> head coach.<\/p>\n

Kenny-Dowall confirmed the news on his LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

Momirovski coached his Harold Matthews Cup<\/a> side to the Grand Final, where they fell short 22-0 to the Newcastle Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Roosters won the 2026 NRL<\/a> premiership and will hope to build a strong premiership-winning defence season, despite major losses in their roster and coaching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Sam Walker saga rattles Bondi, Trent Robinson is quietly promoting coaches internally to join his staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-948637","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\/948637","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=948637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}