Shaun McRae
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Personal information
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| Full name | Shaun McRae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Bomber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 December 1959 Australia |
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| As of 30 March 2009 Source: Rugby League Project |
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Shaun McRae (born 21 December 1959) is a rugby league coach, who is a former director of rugby at Hull F.C. after a spell with the Salford City Reds.
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. 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, staying there until 2004.
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.
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