{"id":574076,"date":"2026-05-09T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574076\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:40:14","slug":"lenihan-is-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574076\/","title":{"rendered":"LENIHAN IS UNLEASHED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tJames (Jimmy) Lenihan is appointed Huddersfield Giants Head Coach on a long term contract.<\/p>\n<p>Huddersfield Giants are delighted to announce the appointment of Jim Lenihan as the club&#8217;s new Head Coach on a long term contract.<\/p>\n<p>The former Gold Coast Titans assistant, and two-time Intrust Super Cup premiership-winning coach will link up with immediate effect, subject to visa clearances,\u00a0with the appointment continuing the theme of change running through the new &#8220;Giants Unleashed&#8221;\u00a0era at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Lenihan, who is no stranger to the club having featured 21 times during the 1999 season, scoring numerous tries, will now become our Head Coach, working alongside our performance staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Huddersfield Giants received some outstanding applications from candidates, but it was\u00a0Lenihan&#8217;s vision for the club, which aligned with the clubs as\u00a0we embark on this Unleashed journey, as being\u00a0the perfect fit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An exclusive interview with Jim will follow on our social channels, you can access our youtube channel by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HuddersfieldGiants1895\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James (Jimmy) Lenihan is appointed Huddersfield Giants Head Coach on a long term contract. Huddersfield Giants are delighted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[196306,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-lenihan-is-unleashed","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574076","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=574076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}