{"id":397875,"date":"2026-01-30T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397875\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:44:10","slug":"eamonn-mcmanus-st-helens-chairman-says-new-boss-paul-rowley-not-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397875\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn McManus: St Helens chairman says new boss Paul Rowley not under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the 2026 campaign, St Helens have signed St George Illawarra Dragons and Australia forward David Klammer, former Man of Steel Jackson Hastings, Wigan&#8217;s Jacob Douglas and ex-Salford pair Nene Macdonald and Joe Shorrocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club have also tied up Jake Wingfield, Daryl Clark, Matt Whitley, Curtis Sironen, Jake Burns and Agnatius Paasi to new contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the changes in the off season, McManus does not believe Saints have taken a gamble with their recruitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everything&#8217;s a calculated risk. It&#8217;s not a gamble. But it&#8217;s obvious to all that the results of the past two to three years have not been at the level [required],&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t expect continuous success, and it denigrates other clubs who have really improved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s been huge investment in a lot of clubs over the past two or three years, so the landscape in Super League isn&#8217;t what it was. You no longer have three or four teams who would pick and choose players and inevitably the competition was between them. It&#8217;s much more competitive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are many more clubs chasing and producing top-class players.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 2026 campaign, St Helens have signed St George Illawarra Dragons and Australia forward David Klammer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-397875","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\/397875","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=397875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}