St Helens boss Paul Wellens says the arrival of Eamon O’Carroll and Lee Briers to his backroom workforce could be the impetus his facet must push on in 2025.
O’Carroll arrived off the again of teaching Championship facet Bradford Bulls final time period whereas England males’s assistant coach Briers joined having spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach on the Brisbane Broncos in Australia.
The pair joined Saints as a part of a revamped backroom line-up following a 2024 marketing campaign through which they completed sixth in Tremendous League, with Matty Smith leaving to rejoin Wigan and France coach Laurent Frayssinous additionally exiting.
“I really feel there’s all the time expectation round us as a membership and this 12 months is not any completely different. Clearly we discovered some worthwhile classes final 12 months and hopefully as a workforce we are able to develop off the again of that,” Wellens informed BBC Radio Merseyside.
“I felt the surroundings wanted freshening up a bit and that is no slight on the individuals who aren’t right here any extra. Some improbable folks have left the organisation.
“Some new faces and new minds usher in recent concepts, recent enthusiasm for what we’re doing, and if you usher in new concepts it brings in a brand new stimulus for the gamers as nicely.”