Overview
- St Helens announced on Thursday that they have signed Kevin Walters to a three-year contract that begins with the 2027 Super League season.
- Walters will remain the Kangaroos head coach through the Rugby League World Cup in October and November before relocating to St Helens.
- The club sacked Paul Rowley 17 games into his tenure this season and has had assistant Eamonn O'Carroll serving as interim coach as St Helens fight to reach the play-offs.
- Saints chairman Eamonn McManus thanked Peter V’Landys and the ARL Commission for facilitating the move, and Australian reports say the deal may be the biggest coaching contract in the club’s history.
- Walters brings recent representative success and club experience—he led Australia to a 3-0 Ashes win over England and took Brisbane to the 2023 NRL Grand Final—which St Helens say underpins their ambition and will trigger an ARL search for a new national coach.