{"id":235586,"date":"2025-10-31T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:36:10","slug":"paul-wellens-linked-with-shock-coaching-move-following-st-helens-exit-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235586\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Wellens linked with shock coaching move following St Helens exit \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/paul-wellens-linked-with-shock-coaching-move-following-st-helens-exit\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Paul Wellens linked with shock coaching move following St Helens exit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WellensPaul-LCAS-A2-DW-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PAUL WELLENS is being linked with a shock coaching move following his exit from St Helens.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0The Mole at the\u00a0Wide World of Sports, Wellens is being eyed by North Queensland Cowboys head coach Todd Payten to join his ranks at the NRL side.<\/p>\n<p>Wellens led Saints to a shock win over Penrith Panthers in the 2023 World Club Challenge and steered the Merseyside club to a play-off semi-final last season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 45-year-old\u2019s contract was not renewed at the end of the campaign, with Saints opting to appoint former Salford Red Devils boss Paul Rowley as their number one.<\/p>\n<p>If Wellens does make the move Down Under, he will join the likes of ex-Super League bosses Brian McDermott and Richard Agar in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAUL WELLENS is being linked with a shock coaching move following his exit from St Helens. According to\u00a0The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}