{"id":236457,"date":"2025-10-31T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:14:08","slug":"ian-watson-hull-kr-appoint-former-salford-and-huddersfield-coach-as-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236457\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Watson: Hull KR appoint former Salford and Huddersfield coach as assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":236458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236457","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\/236457","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=236457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}