{"id":198400,"date":"2025-10-14T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198400\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:02:15","slug":"dean-muir-appointed-new-crusaders-head-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198400\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Muir appointed new Crusaders head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Wales Crusaders have appointed Dean Muir as head coach following the departure of Carl Forster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muir was previously head coach of Hunslet and assistant coach at Keighley Cougars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He replaces Forster, who led the Colwyn Bay-based club to last season&#8217;s League One title and left earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/czx0edr79yko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a role with a Super League club.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muir said: &#8220;I am delighted to be here with Crusaders and I look forward to building the club further on the back of a successful 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Wales Crusaders owner Arun Watkins said: &#8220;What made Dean stand out from the plethora of applications was his energy and passion for our project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We aim to support Dean&#8217;s initiatives as we start the next phase of our journey to make the Crusaders the best we can be.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Wales Crusaders have appointed Dean Muir as head coach following the departure of Carl Forster. Muir was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-198400","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}