Hull KR’s treble-winning head coach Willie Peters says he is “keen” to have talks about taking charge of England for this year’s Rugby League World Cup.<\/p>\n
The Australian, 46, is among the contenders to succeed Shaun Wane, who stepped down on 14 January.<\/p>\n
Peters led Rovers to their first Super League Grand Final triumph last October, along with the League Leaders’ Shield and the Challenge Cup. <\/p>\n
He then joined up with the Australia squad for the Rugby League Ashes series as an assistant to head coach Kevin Walters, helping them to a 3-0 series win over England.<\/p>\n
Peters told BBC Sport: “I’d be keen to have discussions if and when that arose. It’d be a privilege to coach England, that’s for sure.”<\/p>\n
Former Wigan coach Wane, 61, stepped down after just under six years in the role, having led England to a World Cup semi-final in 2022.<\/p>\n
Wane worked on a full-time basis but the Rugby Football League has said the role is “expected to revert to a part-time position”.<\/p>\n
Asked if he had been approached regarding the role, Peters said: “No, I haven’t spoken to anyone yet.<\/p>\n
“It’s a job that many, many people would be interested in and whoever coaches England will have a squad that competes very hard. They show a lot of passion and effort, that’s what an England team does. <\/p>\n
“Shaun did that, got them firing in terms of effort and competing. <\/p>\n
“There are probably a few different areas that they need to work on. As I’ve said openly, the spine is probably an area that needs focus but they’re not too far away.”<\/p>\n
The 2026 World Cup will be staged in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea between 15 October and 15 November.<\/p>\n
All of England’s matches will be in Australia, with their opener against Tonga in Perth on Saturday, 17 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR’s treble-winning head coach Willie Peters says he is “keen” to have talks about taking charge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409520","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\/409520","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=409520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}