Gale has been working closely with Mikey Lewis since arriving at Craven Park
Luke Gale has joined Hull KR’s coaching team ahead of Super League 2026.(Image: Hull KR)
Mikey Lewis has hailed the impact Luke Gale has had on him since the assistant coach’s arrival at Hull KR.
Gale joined the Robins over the off-season with the 37-year-old, who hung up his playing boots at the end of the 2024 season, making the switch to Craven Park after spending a year on the coaching staff at Wakefield Trinity.
The former Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Bulls and Hull FC man was brought in to look after skills and the spine and as a result, he has been working closely with Lewis over the last few months.
The stand-off has now taken the opportunity to pile praise on the assistant even if he hasn’t quite forgotten Gale’s black and white past.
“He’s had a massive impact on me,” Lewis said on the former England scrum-half. “Galey has been there and done it.
“We’ve had a couple of battles which I keep reminding him of, scoring the hat-trick against him in the Hull derby at Magic is always my favourite, just to get one over him…
“He’s been fantastic, just on my kicking game and seeing the game from a different side and I feel like he’s been really good for the spine, me, Tyrone and Jez, with the little details that we need to keep working hard on.
“Especially kicking, he was one of the best at kicking so if I want to look at a full-back or wingers and what they’re doing and little details like that, we’ll obviously talk about it and show me videos of what they do and how I can get better. He’s been really good.”
Of course, Lewis has a new head coach on the international scene that he must impress in Brian McDermott, who was appointed in the role on Thursday.
“I think it’s a great appointment,” Lewis added on the appointment. “He’s been around a lot of years with what he’s done at Leeds.
“Obviously he’s gone over there and done coaching over there, he’s well known and you have to admire what he’s done in the game. It’s very exciting news for us as English players and hopefully for the fans, they can get behind what we’re going to do over there and achieve in the World Cup at the end of the year.”