{"id":644264,"date":"2025-12-20T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644264\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:01:42","slug":"hull-kr-farewell-marks-end-of-an-era-for-long-serving-club-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644264\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull KR farewell marks end of an era for long-serving club figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has spent more than 20 years with the club.<\/p>\n<p>10:58, 20 Dec 2025Updated 11:03, 20 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2_Jason-Netherton-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Netherton has been involved in Hull KR's youth set-up since 2019.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Jason Netherton has been involved in Hull KR&#8217;s youth set-up since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Jason Netherton has shared an emotional message after confirming he has left his role as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/all-about\/hull-kr\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Hull KR<\/a>\u2019s academy head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Netherton has spent the last 20 years with the club, first joining as a player in 2004 before transitioning into the coaching staff post-retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Hull native, now 43, made close to 200 appearances for the Robins across 10 years, having started his career originally with Leeds Rhinos and making his professional debut in 2001. He retired in 2014, cementing himself as one of the club&#8217;s finest servants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Netherton says he is \u201cexcited to see what\u2019s next\u201d as significant changes continue at Hull KR ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Reflecting on his time at the club on social media, the former forward said: \u201cAfter over 20 years at Hull KR, my time at the club has come to a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt has been one of my life\u2019s pleasures to be involved with such a fantastic club, both as a player for 10 years and then transitioning into coaching and finally as management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI am extremely proud of the work that we have managed to do with rebuilding the academy over the last four years post-Covid and would like to thank everyone that I have had the pleasure to work with, both players, staff and wider stakeholders along this wonderful journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI am excited to see what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">His exit marks another key departure at Hull KR following the conclusion of the 2025 campaign, with Danny Ward and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alloutrugbyleague.co.uk\/news\/hull-kr-surprise-coaching-exit-1512324\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Shaun Kenny-Dowall also leaving the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They have since been replaced by former Huddersfield and Salford boss Ian Watson and 2017 Man of Steel Luke Gale as Willie Peters&#8217; new assistant coaches ahead of Rovers&#8217; title-defending campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has spent more than 20 years with the club. 10:58, 20 Dec 2025Updated 11:03, 20 Dec 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[112834,4151,6531,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-644264","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644264","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=644264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}