Des Hasler

Coach #	33
DOB	16th Feb 1961
Origin	Gosford, NSW, Australia

Des Hasler joined Canterbury on 14 November 2011 as head coach for the 2012 NRL season. He had immediate success as he took the club to finish eight places better than the previous season to the top of the ladder and collected the minor premiership. After impressive Qualifying Final and Preliminary Final wins; 16–10 over former club Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and 32–8 over South Sydney Rabbitohs respectively, the club were beaten in the Grand Final by the Melbourne Storm 14–4. At the 2012 Dally M Awards Hasler was named the NRL's coach of the year.

In the 2014 NRL season, Hasler led Canterbury to the 2014 NRL Grand Final, and lost 30-6 to South Sydney at ANZ Stadium.

In the 2016 NRL season Canterbury finished two places lower than the previous season as they finished in seventh place, the same position they managed to reach the Grand Final from two years earlier, but those hopes of a 2014 repeat were crushed in the qualifying elimination final where the Bulldogs after leading 6–4 at half-time but suffered a 28–12 defeat by the Penrith Panthers at the Sydney Football Stadium after which straight away Canterbury bowed out of the finals series.

On 19 September 2017, it was announced by the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs that Hasler had been released.

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