{"id":564863,"date":"2025-11-12T02:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/564863\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:46:20","slug":"sean-long-former-great-britain-scrum-half-steps-down-as-oldham-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/564863\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Long: Former Great Britain scrum-half steps down as Oldham coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former St Helens and Great Britain scrum-half Sean Long has stepped down as head coach of Championship club Oldham.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long guided the Roughyeds to the League 1 title and last season they finished fourth in the second tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club say his departure is by &#8220;mutual consent&#8221; and details of their 2026 coaching team will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long was previously head coach of Featherstone before leaving them in 2023 to become assistant coach at Wakefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a player, he was 2000 Man of Steel and won Super League, Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oldham won 15 of their 24 games during the 2025 season but were beaten 40-4 at home by Halifax Panthers in the eliminators. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former St Helens and Great Britain scrum-half Sean Long has stepped down as head coach of Championship club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-564863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115534442250635021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}