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<\/p>\nHull KR boss Willie Peters has opened up on the club’s focus.<\/p>\n
09:36, 15 Jan 2026Updated 09:40, 15 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
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Hull KR head coach Willie Peters opens up on contract plans and youth pathway focus.(Image: )<\/p>\n
Willie Peters admits Hull KR face a fine balancing act between bringing through the next generation of young stars and retaining experienced players in a salary cap sport.<\/p>\n
Nine players remain without contracts beyond the end of the 2026 campaign and, with success, comes increased wage demands across any sporting club.<\/p>\n
Peters insists a key focus remains developing players through the club\u2019s own pathways, with James Webster recently appointed as Hull KR\u2019s new scholarship head coach ahead of the 2026 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, those youngsters must earn the right to represent the first-team, while the Robins also juggle the futures of established players alongside continued short-term, medium-term and long-term planning at Sewell Group Craven Park.<\/p>\n \u201cIn any organisation, you want to have players coming from within,\u201d Peters told Hull Live.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure that they\u2019re able to play first-team. They\u2019ve got to earn the right to play, but the ideal scenario is developing from within, but that\u2019s going to take a little bit of time.<\/p>\n \u201cInitially, we\u2019ve had to bring some players in. I\u2019ve seen other clubs where you bring youngsters in at academy, they\u2019re a part of your system and understand what the club is about.<\/p>\n \u201cYou want to bring as many kids through your pathways as possible and we\u2019re doing our best to make that happen. Obviously getting James Webster as the scholarship head coach is a massive coup for us. It\u2019s such an important age to have a detailed and experienced coach like James. It\u2019s where the development and journey starts at Hull KR.<\/p>\n \u201cWe always look ahead, you need to look at short-term, medium-term and long-term. When you have success like we\u2019ve had, contracts go up. Therefore, you start to lose players in a salary cap sport.<\/p>\n \u201cThose younger guys then become more important. You look at the likes of Wigan, they help develop Kai Pearce-Paul, he moves on to Australia and they bring in Junior Nsemba. There\u2019s some really good, young talent out there across the game in England. We need to develop from within and keep an eye on what\u2019s out there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n