Former Hull FC boss lined up for NRL role

A former Hull FC head coach is reportedly among the names in consideration for a vacant NRL coaching role.

That man is former coach Brett Hodgson who was last seen in Super League in 2022 when he stepped down from the head coach role at Hull FC.

Hodgson left the role by mutual consent after a ninth-place finish that season and would be replaced by Tony Smith, however, fortunes haven’t turned for the club who have recorded just 13 wins in the two seasons since then.

For Hodgson, he swapped the 13-player game for the 15-player game as he took on roles in international Rugby Union set-ups, notably with Eddie Jones as part of the England and Australian teams as a defensive coach.

He is now being linked with a return to his former club Wests Tigers but the links to Hull FC remain as he’s being considered for an assistant coach role, in all likelihood the one that incoming FC boss John Cartwright has left behind.

News of his consideration has been reported down under by The Daily Telegraph.

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The Telegraph have reported that the 46-year-old is among several coaches being ‘considered’ with Wests having lost two of their most senior and well-respected assistants in Cartwright and Lee Briers.

They’re both headed to Super League with Cartwright set to take over at the MKM Stadium and become the next Hull FC coach, whilst attacking mastermind Lee Briers will join St Helens as an assistant in a return to his boyhood club.

As such Benji Marshall is in desperate need of an assistant or two and Hodgson, a former teammate from the 2005 Grand Final victory, is among those names.

He has also served as an assistant with the club before, taking a role in 2018 before then being appointed as head coach at Hull FC for the 2021 season.

Should Hodgson join Wests for 2025, it would mark his first foray in rugby league since his departure from the Black and Whites at the end of the 2022 campaign.

He’d be tasked with helping Wests avoid yet another wooden spoon with the Tigers having finished bottom of the pile in the last three seasons.