Shaun McRae has been appointed as Director of Rugby at Hull. Richard Agar has left according to Sky Sports News.

It's obviously less stressful at Hull.

Hopefully he can work his magic at FC the same way he did at the Willows.

Does that mean Simms and McRae are the only two in DoR roles in Super League?

Apparently he's an actual director dealing with the Rugby side of things as opposed to the normal DoR who has a big hand in training, signings etc..

Why do Hull love him so much ?
How can it be that a employee be totally useless at his job for 4 years, go off sick with a stress related illness, get a pay off and then walk into another job ?
Fkin joke

If only he had been given this roll a few years back

i only read a few days ago he wanted to stay out the lime light

i wouldnt wish him on any team

Yeah, he would have gobbled it up.

from the MEN

"McRae, who was head coach at Hull from 2000-04, will become the club's director of rugby and help choose Agar's successor.

That is expected to be Australian Peter Gentle, currently assistant to Tim Sheens with both Wests Tigers and Australia, who rejected the chance to take over as Salford coach earlier this year"

me smells a massive rat
but at least we have Matt

I think he should appoint Steve Simms as Coach.

Just been on Hull's Forum and read 18 pages of supporters glowing in their praise of the man we knew as 'The Slug'.

There may have a miriad of circumstances that led to his ultimate failure, but it beggars belief that he didn't play a major role in the dire rugby that we've had to put up with for the last four years.

I will be very interested indeed to see how this appointment turns out.

Can just see it now......

Hull start off the season with 5 straight wins. We don't start off all that well. All off a sudden everyone saying we should have appointed Gentle and kept the slug on board.

I am just speechless how like mentioned above there are 18 pages on the hull forum about him,it is as if the bloke is some sort of living legend/god type figure over there !!! did we miss out on something in the near 4 terrible/miserable/depressing/lack lusture/ etc etc years he was head coach of our beloved club or what??

The fans will stop singing `Old faithful` - Their new hymn will be `Old Stressful`.

Should be raring to go after his 4 1/2 year rest.

Aye we love bomber over here, good guy and we played some real class rugby with him in charge, also it sounds like he won't have much involvement in coaching, he will be more involved with bringing youth through (which hasn't happened for a little while) and advising our owner and will be heavily involved in signing and resigning players that our new coach wants. Leaving our new coach to focus solely on playing matters.

The guy is an expert in playing up and coming home grown players in there wrong positions and has a natural talent for pixxing his teams supporters off. Another huge talent is his ability on using statistics to enhance his team further

On the whole he probably dragged our club back another ten years during the three and a half years he was here. Personally i think we have improved more in the last 7 weeks than we did under his time here. Would not wish for him to be let loose on any team , anywhere

Only positive is he (hopefully ) wont be on sky as much

he didn't appear to do much coaching here and avoided the youth infact he forced many good young players away, could only come up with one game plan for all teams and had no idea about the opposition.
Good luck to you at Hull.

The criticism of Shaun McRae on here is massively overdone.
I wish him well in his new role

The difference between the mcrae when he was at hull fc as head coach and then salford was the standard of players! At hull we had quality playrrs like jason smith, richie barnett, swain, mcmenemy, unlike salford who had the odd individual who shone! we played the most entertaining rugby in years with bomber in charge, including a whipping of your own team

Mcrae will have nothing to do with the first tesm coaching, he will be pesrsons advisor with his contacts in the game

The difference between the mcrae when he was at hull fc as head coach and then salford was the standard of players! At hull we had quality players like jason smith, richie barnett, swain, mcmenemy, unlike salford who had the odd individual who shone! we played the most entertaining rugby in years with bomber in charge, including a whipping of your own team

Mcrae will have nothing to do with the first tesm coaching, he will be pearsons advisor with his contacts in the game

Mcrae has a job for life @ hull now he knows the ropes as ss has probably shown him.

My comments had disappeared
the only contacts McRae has are Baldy and Wiggy at Sky
he allowed Salford to become the most unfit team in SL, and drove out any up and coming good young players such as Jordan Turner (I wonder if he will move on again?)
Nothing to do with the players more about the coach, one game plan and no idea why it didn't work.

Ironic how McRae walks into a job at Hull while our previous coach who on the whole did a very impressive job does not appear to have any chance of a super league return even though hes made a huge success of the Batley job.

If you are leaving him with your youth they will stagnate get bored and leave like our 1st generation.

As for attractive rugby it was Jason smith if I remember correctly pulling the strings so I'd thank him and mcrae assistant @ the time for your style of rugby because SM style makes watching paint dry exciting