Super League: Leeds Rhinos sporting director Ian Blease: I’m 6.5/10 Brad Arthur will stay for next year! | Rugby League News
Ian Blease said to the sports director of Leeds Rhinos, Ian Blease Sky Sports It is “6.5 / 10 Brad Arthur will remain”, with conversations to guarantee the future of the current Australian.
Speak as the last guest on The bench rugby league podcast Sky SportsBlease was asked directly what was the situation with Arthur by Jon Wilkin and Jenna Brooks.
Arthur has two sons playing a professional rugby league in the LNR and has never hidden the fact that he plans to go home to his family and coach of the League.
“We work alongside each other and we see each other every day and we have been opened and honest with each other from the first day, still to date,” said Blease.
“I know where he is and you are right, he shared his thoughts on the return to Australia. Will this happen? I don’t know.
“Is it eager to stay here? Yes, probably. It changes a week, week? There is a bit of that because, obviously, Perth’s work was there. It’s not there now.
“He would probably still take a job in the LNR at some point. My job is to convince him to stay here. The players convinced him little by little, I think.
“He will have a decision to make. We will all do it very soon. As far as deadlines are concerned, he told you two weeks [Sky Sports].
“I think it will be next month. We need me and him to have a professional conversation, honest and open to:” What does it look like? “Because I’m looking at 2027 now.
“I would say it would be a year with an option, hopefully, if we could convince him of this. This club needs certainty.”
The Rhinos of Leeds chief coach Arthur is currently in his second year in charge, but publicly declared that he planned to move to Australia
Asked what would seek Arthur to stay in Leeds when he has not committed his future so far, Arthur has said:
“This temptation to win something here is a big charge for him, isn’t it? It must be. And we had this conversation:” Let’s do something, win something together. “Hopefully it grabs him.”
“I think that when you have a combination of a club that works well together, and it’s not just him and me, it’s the whole group of staff we have in the past 12 months, I think you have to trust these people to stay with you during the trip.
“And I have this confidence in him, but he will only do what is good for Brad and his family. He will.
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“So we came to this agreement that we will decide very soon in which direction will be. He will go in one direction, we could go in the other way. Internally, we will have this discussion.
“I have 6.523 out of 10. Listen, he’s a great guy. I want to keep him. And I said it, I want to keep it. We work together.
“I hope we can get it.”
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