Samoan World Cup hero turns back on NRL

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So wherever to present for Matt Parish, the antheral who shook the rugby league satellite by coaching minnows Samoa to the final of the World Cup?

Parish has worked arsenic an adjunct manager astatine some Manly and Parramatta and would locomotion into a akin relation successful 2024 pursuing his stunning feat with the tiny land nation.

But Parish has had capable of clubland and volition ore his efforts successful coming years connected helping make young kids successful the New South Wales Rugby League system.

"I cognize I'll ne'er beryllium an NRL caput manager and I'm good with that," Parish told Wide World of Sports.

"I've done my clip arsenic an adjunct manager and enjoyed that.

"But I've been moving the past fewer years successful pathways with the NSW Rugby League and I emotion helping young up and comers.

"I enactment intimately with 'Freddy' (Blues manager Brad Fittler) and helium is large successful his enactment of these rising players.

"They are young and keen to larn and enjoyable to enactment with."

A erstwhile Balmain inferior player, Parish was successful the firing enactment erstwhile England thumped the Samoans 60-6 successful their opening crippled of the World Cup.

But helium turned it each astir successful singular style, with the Samoans producing a stunning 27-26 triumph to upset the Brits successful the semi-final.

"I was arrogant of the guys and however they responded aft that atrocious archetypal game," helium said.

"We gave it a bully ace against the Kangaroos but they are satellite champions for a crushed and conscionable had excessively overmuch people and experience."

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