{"id":795392,"date":"2026-10-08T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795392\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:56:09","slug":"lee-briers-st-helens-assistant-coach-leaves-after-two-seasons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795392\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Briers: St Helens assistant coach leaves after two seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens assistant coach Lee Briers has left after two seasons to &#8220;explore a new opportunity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 48-year-old started his playing career with his hometown club before joining Warrington where he made 425 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved on to the coaching staff at the Wire and has also had spells with Wigan Warriors, Australian side Brisbane Broncos and the England national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales international Briers has been linked with a move to new NRL side Perth Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens assistant coach Lee Briers has left after two seasons to &#8220;explore a new opportunity&#8221;. The 48-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795392","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\/795392","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=795392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}