{"id":245886,"date":"2025-11-05T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245886\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:45:11","slug":"leeds-rhinos-boss-doubles-down-on-nrl-ambition-and-makes-disrespected-super-league-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245886\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Rhinos boss doubles down on NRL ambition and makes ‘disrespected’ Super League admission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leeds Rhinos head coach Brad Arthur has doubled down on his intentions to return to the NRL in a coaching capacity in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n

Arthur will be the man at the helm at Headingley in 2026 after agreeing to a contract extension following a long and drawn out period of uncertainty. That decision came in August, just a month or so before Leeds finished fourth in the Super League table, which hammered home the progress the club made in Arthur\u2019s first full season in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

The Rhinos\u2019 season came to an end in the first round of the play-offs, though, with St Helens dumping them out in the most dramatic way possible with Shane Wright\u2019s winning try coming some time after the full-time hooter.<\/p>\n

That loss will have left a bitter taste in Arthur\u2019s mouth and as Leeds<\/a> prepare to return for pre-season, it will surely be the source of their motivation moving forward under the Australian.<\/p>\n

Could the 2026 season by Arthur\u2019s last as a Super League head coach, though? The Leeds boss has made no bones about his desire to go back to the NRL at some stage after being sacked by Parramatta Eels and and in interview with the Daily Telegraph, he has suggested that he could be looking at a 2027 return.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life is in Australia, that\u2019s the big part of it. I know Jake [Arthur\u2019s son] is over here so I\u2019ve got more family around me but it\u2019s hard being away from Australia, where everything is right there and convenient,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 12 months\u2019 time, I will be ready to go again. I know the mistakes that I got wrong but I wouldn\u2019t be starting as a rookie again. I got thrown in the deep-end at a big club with a lot of pressure and expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a different stage of my life now where my kids are older and grown-up so moving around and starting at a new club wouldn\u2019t bother me. There\u2019s no job in the game that worries me or feels like I can\u2019t do. At some stage I would like to get back into it, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leeds Rhinos boss issues Super League verdict<\/p>\n

Arthur arrived in Super League in July 2024, just two months after being relieved of his duties by the Eels. And, he admits he arrived in the competition relatively blind having \u2018disrespected\u2019 it previously.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s improving,\u201d Arthur said on Super League in general. \u201cThere are some really high quality games and then there\u2019s been some games that dropped off towards the end of the year with teams out of contention.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there were plenty of results that you wouldn\u2019t have picked. If you don\u2019t turn up on the day you get beaten.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably underestimated and probably disrespected it, not knowing a lot about it, sitting back in Australia, so lucky how good our game is. I didn\u2019t really take much notice of it. But since I\u2019ve come over here, (I\u2019ve seen) a lot of good players here that could cut it in the NRL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not prepared to say who. I will keep that to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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