{"id":353648,"date":"2026-01-05T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:11:06","slug":"mike-grady-salford-rlfc-appoint-ex-womens-boss-as-mens-first-team-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353648\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Grady: Salford RLFC appoint ex-women&#8217;s boss as men&#8217;s first team head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salford RLFC have appointed Mike Grady as their head coach shortly before the start of the 2026 Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grady previously worked for the club as head coach of their women&#8217;s team in 2023 and has also held roles at Widnes Vikings and Rochdale Hornets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He arrives just 11 days before Salford are set to take to the field to face Oldham in the opening fixture of the season and their first match since they were wound up by the High Court and subsequently revamped under the ownership of a consortium led by former player Mason Caton-Brown in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an honour to be given this opportunity to lead Salford RLFC. The professionalism, belief and sense of hope growing under the new ownership has motivated so many of us,&#8221; Grady said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know this will be a challenging period, but we&#8217;ll be ready. I want to draw on the club&#8217;s proud heritage, tough to the core, full of heart and committed to playing entertaining rugby that makes our fans proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salford RLFC have appointed Mike Grady as their head coach shortly before the start of the 2026 Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-353648","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\/353648","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=353648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}