Hull KR have pulled off a major coup by recruiting Kevin Moore as their new coach, meaning they will be the only Super League club in 2012 to employ a man with recent experience of being a head coach in Australia's National Rugby League .
Moore was in charge of the Canterbury Bulldogs until he was sacked midway through the 2011 season and also has experience of the British game after enjoying a successful spell with Halifax during the mid-1980s.
He is related, through marriage, to Chris Anderson, the former Australia coach who also played for Hull KR and Halifax, and spent several years on the backroom staff at Canterbury until he, Moore, was promoted to succeed his brother-in-law Steve Folkes in 2009.
He will become Rovers' second Super League coach after the club decided to release Justin Morgan with one year remaining on his contract.
Hull KR's chairman Neil Hudgell flew to Australia last week with two other directors to interview a handful of candidates and Moore's appointment is expected to be confirmed before the end of this week.
Rovers will become the fifth Super League club to appoint a new coach in recent months and the fourth to recruit an Australian. But none of the other three – Peter Gentle (Hull FC), Matt Parish (Salford) and Ian Millward (Castleford) – have held a head coach's position in the NRL.
Meanwhile, the Australian influence on the England squad for this autumn's Four Nations series is growing by the week. Chris Heighington, an experienced West Tigers forward who qualifies through his parents, seems certain to be selected after confirming his availability, following the Yorkshire-born, Queensland-raised Brisbane Broncos centre Jack Reed and Melbourne's Halifax-born utility back Gareth Widdop, who made his England debut last year.
Source: Guardian
Moore was in charge of the Canterbury Bulldogs until he was sacked midway through the 2011 season and also has experience of the British game after enjoying a successful spell with Halifax during the mid-1980s.
He is related, through marriage, to Chris Anderson, the former Australia coach who also played for Hull KR and Halifax, and spent several years on the backroom staff at Canterbury until he, Moore, was promoted to succeed his brother-in-law Steve Folkes in 2009.
He will become Rovers' second Super League coach after the club decided to release Justin Morgan with one year remaining on his contract.
Hull KR's chairman Neil Hudgell flew to Australia last week with two other directors to interview a handful of candidates and Moore's appointment is expected to be confirmed before the end of this week.
Rovers will become the fifth Super League club to appoint a new coach in recent months and the fourth to recruit an Australian. But none of the other three – Peter Gentle (Hull FC), Matt Parish (Salford) and Ian Millward (Castleford) – have held a head coach's position in the NRL.
Meanwhile, the Australian influence on the England squad for this autumn's Four Nations series is growing by the week. Chris Heighington, an experienced West Tigers forward who qualifies through his parents, seems certain to be selected after confirming his availability, following the Yorkshire-born, Queensland-raised Brisbane Broncos centre Jack Reed and Melbourne's Halifax-born utility back Gareth Widdop, who made his England debut last year.
Source: Guardian
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