{"id":450880,"date":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","slug":"michael-ennis-reveals-the-coaching-role-he-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450880\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ennis reveals the coaching role he wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> head coach Michael Ennis<\/a> has declared he wants the NSW Blues<\/a> job.<\/p>\n

The former dummy half, who won a premiership with the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> in 2016 and played eight games for the Blues<\/a> between 2009 and 2015 as part of a career that also spanned 274 NRL<\/a> games across the Newcastle Knights<\/a>, St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>, Brisbane Broncos<\/a>, Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> and Cronulla Sharks<\/a>, has been dipping his toe into coaching in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

After holding specialist roles with clubs including the Canberra Raiders<\/a>, Cronulla Sharks<\/a> and Parramatta Eels<\/a>, he joined the Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> in 2023, before joining the Dragons for 2026 as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n

That lasted just months, with Ennis let go by the club on April 21 after head coach Shane Flanagan<\/a> was sacked amid a zero and seven start to the year.<\/p>\n

He is now working in the media and away from NRL<\/a> clubs, but admitted on SEN Radio that Origin coaching is something he would like to do.<\/p>\n

“But when Laurie has decided he has had enough it’s definitely something I would like to do. I love that arena, I love what comes with it, the expectation and the pressure. The level of the players. I would love to do it at the right time,” Ennis said on SEN Radio.<\/p>\n

Ennis has been touted as a future head coach by plenty of good judges.<\/p>\n

The former dummy half has impressed during his time as an assistant coach and consultant, but it’s unclear whether head coaching is something he sees in his future.<\/p>\n

Ennis retired from playing after the 2016 grand final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former St George Illawarra Dragons head coach Michael Ennis has declared he wants the NSW Blues job. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-450880","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\/450880","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=450880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}