Hull KR<\/a> at the end of the year after one season, having made a big impact at Sewell Group Craven Park.<\/p>\nHe joins former NRL star Mitchell Pearce in becoming an assistant coach at Catalans. The ex-New South Wales representative spent his two final seasons as a player in the South of France, retiring at the end of the 2023 campaign. He becomes the club’s new attack coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to express my deep gratitude to Bernard [Guasch] for his trust in me and offering me this role,\u201d said McIlorum.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am delighted to be working alongside Joel and Mitchell, a great team with whom I look forward to working alongside to get the Dragons back competing against the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy to be going back home to be with my family and back to the Stade Gilbert and reconnect with the passionate supporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud to represent this club and to share the next two years with you. We will give everything we have, every day, to bring pride back to the Catalans Dragons jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, former Hull KR head coach Craig Sandercock has landed a new role down under. He has been appointed the new boss of Wests Tigers\u2019 NRWL outfit on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n
Sandercock\u2019s first head coaching role in the top grade was with the Robins, appointed from Newcastle Knights. He returned to Australia in 2014.<\/p>\n
He has since been a part of backroom teams at Wests Tigers, Cronulla Sharks and Canterbury Bulldogs in the NRL as an assistant coach. He succeeds Brett Kimmorley at Wests Tigers’ NRLW team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael McIlorum’s next career move has been confirmed, while a former Hull KR head coach has landed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[112834,4151,6531,79,6533,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-444990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-hull-kr","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-rugby-league","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-super-league","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115251916618013664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Michael McIlorum in action for Hull KR.<\/p>\n