{"id":419694,"date":"2026-05-09T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:12:16","slug":"craig-fitzgibbons-right-hand-man-has-made-a-call-on-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419694\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Fitzgibbon&#8217;s right-hand man has made a call on his future."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks assistant coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/daniel-holdsworth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Holdsworth<\/a> has made a call on his coaching future in the Shire, knocking back a lucrative three-year offer to take up the top job at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/british-teams\/huddersfield-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huddersfield Giants<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Holdsworth had been linked to the coaching role in the UK after travelling overseas for contract talks, with reports revealing he had emerged as the club&#8217;s number one target to replace Luke Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>However, David Riccio has now revealed that Holdsworth will remain loyal to his former club and continue alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/craig-fitzgibbon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Fitzgibbon<\/a> at Cronulla.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time the former player-turned-coach has attracted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> interest, with the 42-year-old also previously linked to the head coaching role at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/british-teams\/castleford-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castleford Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Huddersfield has since confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/jim-lenihan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Lenihan<\/a> as the club&#8217;s new head coach on a long-term deal.<\/p>\n<p>Holdsworth transitioned into coaching following his playing career, serving as an assistant coach at the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks since 2019 after previously working with the Bulldogs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> development programs and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/samoa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samoa<\/a> national team during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/2022-rugby-league-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2022 Rugby League World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks assistant coach Daniel Holdsworth has made a call on his coaching future in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-419694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}