{"id":579932,"date":"2025-11-19T07:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579932\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:13:16","slug":"luke-gale-hull-kr-bring-in-new-assistant-as-shaun-kenny-dowall-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579932\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Gale: Hull KR bring in new assistant as Shaun Kenny-Dowall leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hull KR have appointed former Super League Man of Steel Luke Gale as assistant coach on a two-year deal after Shaun Kenny-Dowall left with immediate effect for personal reasons.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealander Kenny-Dowall, 37, joined the Robins in 2020 and moved on to the club&#8217;s coaching staff after retiring at the end of the 2023 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gale, also 37, won Man of Steel in 2017 during his spell with Castleford and had spells with Leeds, Bradford and London Broncos before retiring at the end of the 2024 season after helping Wakefield win promotion back to Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent last season on the coaching staff with Trinity&#8217;s academy side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is an unbelievable opportunity for a young coach to join a club like Hull KR,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/hullkr.co.uk\/news\/luke-gale-joins-the-robins-coaching-staff-for-2026\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve watched what Willie [Peters] and the club have been building over the last few seasons and the progression on and off the field has been fantastic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to working to the start of pre-season and getting started with Willie and the boys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR have appointed former Super League Man of Steel Luke Gale as assistant coach on a two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-579932","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\/115575128394716905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579932","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=579932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}