Overview

• Cheika has accepted a full-time assistant role with the Roosters, taking charge of the forwards for the 2026 season.
• He begins in November when the club opens its preseason, joining the staff ahead of next year’s campaign.
• Roosters football boss Mitchell Aubusson said Cheika will also work across the club’s pathways to support player and coach development.
• Head coach Trent Robinson welcomed the appointment, citing their long relationship and Cheika’s leadership approach.
• Cheika’s rugby league experience includes coaching Lebanon and a 2020 Roosters consultancy, and he had been linked to NRL head-coach vacancies before Justin Holbrook took the Newcastle job.