{"id":257410,"date":"2025-11-11T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257410\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:17:07","slug":"sean-long-former-great-britain-scrum-half-steps-down-as-oldham-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257410\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Long: Former Great Britain scrum-half steps down as Oldham coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former St Helens and Great Britain scrum-half Sean Long has stepped down as head coach of Championship club Oldham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long guided the Roughyeds to the League 1 title and last season they finished fourth in the second tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club say his departure is by &#8220;mutual consent&#8221; and details of their 2026 coaching team will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long was previously head coach of Featherstone before leaving them in 2023 to become assistant coach at Wakefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a player, he was 2000 Man of Steel and won Super League, Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oldham won 15 of their 24 games during the 2025 season but were beaten 40-4 at home by Halifax Panthers in the eliminators. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former St Helens and Great Britain scrum-half Sean Long has stepped down as head coach of Championship club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-257410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257410","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=257410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}