Tweed Seagulls RLFC have appointed Joe O’Callaghan as their new Hostplus Cup head coach on a two-year deal.
Formally getting into the function from mid to late October 2025 after relocating from Sydney, O’Callaghan joins the Seagulls with in depth and elite teaching expertise and a confirmed observe report of success.
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Most lately with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, he served as NRL Assistant Coach, NSW Cup Head Coach, NRL Improvement Coach, and Jersey Flegg Head Coach.
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In 2014, O’Callaghan led Northern Satisfaction to the QLD Cup Premiership and NRL State Championship.
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In 2023, he guided the Rabbitohs to the NSW Cup Premiership and NRL State Championship title.
Tweed Seagulls CEO Brendon Lindsay mentioned,
“On behalf of the Seagulls board, employees, and group, I wish to welcome Joe and his household to our membership. From the primary time we met Joe, his enthusiasm for teaching, his data of our membership, and his ardour for bringing individuals collectively actually shone via. We sit up for supporting him in intertwining his philosophies for rugby league into our membership.”
The Seagulls’ appointment marks a big step for the membership as they search to rise within the Hostplus Cup ranks.
With O’Callaghan’s expertise, Tweed gamers from across the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers areas can anticipate a renewed concentrate on efficiency, growth, and tradition each on and off the sphere within the staff.
Preparations for O’Callaghan’s transition into the function have already begun, with planning underway to make sure a clean begin when he arrives from Sydney in October.
The membership and its supporters can be watching intently to see how his management shapes the Seagulls’ 2026 marketing campaign.
