Hull FC director of rugby Richie Myler has underlined his optimism and belief as the Black and Whites approach the 2025 Super League season. FC endured a miserable 2024, with the club finishing 11th in the table after winning just three games all season.
It was a season that saw Hull fans starved of something to cheer about for large spells, and the turnover in personnel didn’t help, with Tony Smith being dismissed in April and a raft of senior players leaving before the end of their contracts. There’s a renewed sense of hope at the MKM Stadium, though, as Hull enter the new year with a new head coach in John Cartwright, new owners in Andrew Thirkill and David Hood and a first-team squad that is almost unrecognisable to the one that finished the 2024 campaign.
Myler has been at the heart of those changes and before the club step up their preparations for the start of the new campaign in just six weeks’ time, he has delivered a message of confidence to supporters.
“We are positively navigating the start of a bright new era for Hull FC,” he wrote in a statement published on the club website. “While we are pleased with the progress being made behind-the-scenes and on the training field, there is much hard-work ahead of us over the coming months.
“However, I am buoyed by the fact we have an incredibly passionate and proud group of people here at the club, including our new board, pulling together to restore our collective pride in our badge.”
He continued: “On the training field, we’re already seeing the positive impacts of the additions we have made to the playing roster and our coaching ranks. We’ve added some proven leaders and winners, and we’re already seeing the likes of John Asiata, Jordan Rapana and Aidan Sezer having a positive impact on the playing group – particularly our promising crop of young players.
“John Cartwright, with the support of Simon Grix, Tom Bennett, and the returning Andy Last, have revamped and refreshed our training schedule with the players looking fitter, stronger, and more robust this pre-season, and our new facility at the University of Hull playing an important role in bringing together and uniting our playing group.
“With just over six weeks until we get our Betfred Super League campaign underway, I am already excited to see that magnificent Black & White support in Perpignan in Round One, before we return home under the lights in Round Two to face off against the champions.”
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