Fox feels time is right to return to coaching (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Former Bradford Northern player Fox feels time is right to return to coaching
7:31pm Wednesday 15th February 2012 in Sport By Ross Heppenstall
Deryck Fox pictured in his Bradford Northern playing days
Former Bradford Northern star Deryck Fox has landed a plum post as head coach of Australian feeder club Batemans Bay Tigers.
The 47-year-old, who played for Northern in the 1990s and won international honours with England and Great Britain, has worked as a roofer for the past few years.
Fox’s appetite for the game diminished after the tragic loss of his close friend and former Northern team-mate Roy Powell in 1998.
Fox was working as Rochdale coach at the time, and Powell was serving as his assistant.
The pair were preparing for a training session when Powell collapsed. He died in Fox’s arms, aged 33.
Time was a healer for Fox, who returned to coaching in the summer of 2010 at the Dewsbury Moor amateur club, laying the foundations for his move Down Under to the Bay Tigers, a feeder club to Melbourne Storm.
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gordon ramsay says...
10:41pm Wed 15 Feb 12
nice work if you can get it.
brings back good memories reading that article. a classy scrum half.
i have to admit though that i thought he was shipped out to batley before we became the bulls but the badge on his chest is clearly a bulls one.