Shaun McRae

Shaun McRae
Personal information
Nickname	Bomber, Walrus
Born	(1959-12-21) 21 December 1959 Australia
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1996–98	St. Helens	70	50	2	18	71
1999	Gateshead Thunder	30	19	1	10	63
2000–04	Hull	87	48	3	36	55
2005–06	South Sydney	48	12	1	35	25
2007–11	Salford City Reds	18	3	0	15	17
	Total	253	132	7	114	52
Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1995–00	Scotland	5	1	0	4	20
As of 30 March 2009
Source: Rugby League Project

Shaun McRae (born 21 December 1959) is a rugby league coach, who is currently the director of rugby at Hull FC after a spell with the Salford City Reds.

Career

Shaun McRae, nicknamed 'Bomber', was born in 1959 and began his rugby league coaching career as an assistant for the Canberra Raiders in the mid-late 1980s.^[1] He was later appointed Head Coach with St Helens (1996 – 1998) in the European Super League, where he won the Coach of the Year award in 1996. He coached his team to victory in the 1996 Challenge Cup and Super League I championship. His St Helens team also won the 1997 Challenge Cup.

McRae was also the head trainer and unofficial assistant coach to Australian coach Bob Fulton during the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.

At the end of 1998 McRae moved to the now defunct Gateshead Thunder club. He then joined Hull in October 1999,^[2] staying there until 2004.^[3]

He returned to Australia and joined the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2004. He returned to the NRL with a 61.1% success rate in Super League. Under McRae South Sydney finished the 2005 NRL season level on 23 premiership points with 2004 premiers the Canterbury Bulldogs. He was replaced at the Rabbits by Jason Taylor after the 2006 season with a final winning success rate of exactly 25%.

The 2006 season was seen as a transitional phase for the club, with the loss of senior players such as Bryan Fletcher, Ashley Harrison and Scott Logan, however with the club getting the wooden spoon for the fourth time in five seasons, he was asked to make way for outgoing Parramatta coach Jason Taylor. Taylor had been hired to act as McRae's assistant, following the sacking of McRae's previous assistant, Arthur Kitinas.^[4]

He moved upstairs to the position of director of rugby at the South Sydney Rabbitohs. However in late 2006 it emerged that he would be leaving his new role, feeling that he still had much to offer as a head coach.

McRae has worked on Sky Sports with Eddie Hemmings and Mike 'Stevo' Stephenson. In early 2007 he was installed as the favourite to succeed Brian Noble to become the full-time coach of Great Britain but the job went to Tony Smith.

McRae then took over from Karl Harrison at the Salford City Reds on 11 June 2007.^[5]

In 2008 after failing to save the Reds from relegation from the Super League, McRae led the Salford side to triple success in the National League, winning the Northern Rail Cup, the League Leaders Trophy and the Grand Final and saw his team gain a licence for re-admittance to the Super League for 2009.

Shaun McRae has been off with an undisclosed illness for most of the 2011 season and the club had announced that he will not be extending his contract after it finishes at the end of the current season. Shaun has since agreed to terminate employment, in a mutual agreement with the club. The Salford City Reds are now looking for a new head coach to take them forward in the new stadium in the 2012 season.

As of September 2011, he has returned to Hull FC as director of rugby after agreeing terms with Hull FC owner Adam Pearson. McRae's arrival was followed by the unveiling of new Head coach Peter Gentle (formerly assistant-coach of Wests Tigers), who took over from Richard Agar.

Shaun McRae was involved in bringing in a number of new signings for the 2012 season, including; Andy Lynch (Bradford Bulls), Brett Seymour (New Zealand Warriors), Wade McKinnon (Wests Tigers), Aaron Heremaia (New Zealand Warriors), Eamon O'Carroll (Wigan Warriors), Martin Aspinwall (Castleford Tigers), Tony Martin (Crusaders RL) and Jamie Ellis (Leigh Centurions).

References

↑ Clarkson, Alan (1992-09-12). "Vital week for Daley's knee". The Sun-Herald (Fairfax Digital). p. 72. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
↑ "Super League Team-by-team guide". telegraph.co.uk (UK: Telegraph Media Group Limited). 1 March 2001. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
↑ hullfc.com. "Coaches and Captains". History. Hull FC. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
↑ "Souths dump assistant NRL coach Kitinas". The Age (theage.com.au). 2006-06-28. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
↑ "McRae given Head Coach Role". Salford City Reds. 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2007-06-11.

External links

Salford Red Devils Coaches

1920s James Lomas 1928 - 1940 Lance Todd 1954 - 1958 Gus Risman 1964 - 1970 Griff Jenkins 1970 - 1973 Cliff Evans 1973 – 1977 Les Bettinson 1977 – 1978 Colin Dixon 1978 Stan McCormick 1978 – 1980 Alex Murphy 1980 – 1982 Kevin Ashcroft 1982 – Alan McInnes 1982 – 1983 Malcolm Aspey 1983 – 1984 Mike Coulman 1984 – 1989 Kevin Ashcroft 1989 – 1993 Kevin Tamati 1993 – 1995 Garry Jack

Super League Era	1995 - 1999 Andy Gregory 1999 - 2001 John Harvey 2001 - 2002 Steve McCormack 2002 - 2007 Karl Harrison 2007 - 2011 Shaun McRae 2011 Matt Parish 2011 - 2013 Phil Veivers 2013 Alan Hunte (interim) 2013 - 2014 Brian Noble 2014 - Present Iestyn Harris

Scotland squad – 2000 Rugby League World Cup

Russell (c) Arnold Bell Craig Cram Crowther Daylight Fletcher Gilmour Graham Heckenberg Horne Laughton Logan Mackay Maiden McDonald Penny Purcell S. Rhodes M. Rhodes Shaw Vowles Wainwright Coach: McRae

St Helens RLFC squad – 1997 Challenge Cup Final winners

1 Steve Prescott 2 Danny Arnold 3 Andy Haigh 4 Paul Newlove 5 Anthony Sullivan 6 Tommy Martyn 7 Bobbie Goulding 8 Apollo Perelini 9 Keiron Cunningham 10 Julian O'Neill 11 Chris Joynt 12 Derek McVey 13 Karle Hammond 14 Vila Matautia 15 Chris Morley 16 Andy Northey 17 Ian Pickavance Coach: Shaun McRae

St Helens RLFC squad – 1996 Challenge Cup Final winners

1 Steve Prescott 2 Danny Arnold 3 Scott Gibbs 4 Paul Newlove 5 Anthony Sullivan 6 Karle Hammond 7 Bobbie Goulding 8 Apollo Perelini 9 Keiron Cunningham 10 Andrew Leathem 11 Chris Joynt 12 Simon Booth 13 Andy Northey 14 Tommy Martyn 15 Alan Hunte 16 Ian Pickavance 17 Vila Matautia Coach: Shaun McRae

Preceded by Arthur Kitinas 2004	Coach South Sydney Rabbitohs 2005-06	Succeeded by Jason Taylor 2007-09

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