{"id":540529,"date":"2025-10-31T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540529\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:09:14","slug":"ian-watson-hull-kr-appoint-former-salford-and-huddersfield-coach-as-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540529\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Watson: Hull KR appoint former Salford and Huddersfield coach as assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hull KR have appointed former Salford Red Devils and Huddersfield Giants head coach Ian Watson as Willie Peters&#8217; assistant on a two-year deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 48-year-old joins the coaching staff at the treble-winning Robins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c8x15zg0dnyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Danny Ward left his role earlier this week<\/a> to be closer to family in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watson guided Salford to the 2019 Grand Final and helped Huddersfield reach the Challenge Cup final in 2022 and has been coaching in America with Seattle Seawolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I admired how Ian coached Huddersfield as they were always a difficult team to break down and beat,&#8221; head coach Peters <a href=\"https:\/\/hullkr.co.uk\/news\/hull-kr-welcome-ian-watson-as-assistant-coach-on-two-year-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR have appointed former Salford Red Devils and Huddersfield Giants head coach Ian Watson as Willie Peters&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-540529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115470596422417994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540529","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=540529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}