Two former Kiwi league coaches are taking up overseas posts this week.
Bob Bailey has been appointed to prepare Russia for the European Cup and Frank Endacott has been called in to English club Widnes as a short-term saviour.
For Bailey, the trip to Moscow, for a one-year contract, will be his third - the others were for short-term assignments - but this will be the first time wife Judy will be with him.
He helped the Moscow Dynamo club to achieve the first-ever win for a Russian team on foreign soil, beating Bradford Bulls feeder side West Bowling in early rounds of the European club tournament, and was guiding the Russian national side when it won the Victory Cup tournament over the Barla English academy side that had beaten France.
Endacott apparently beat another Kiwi coach, Gary Freeman, and former Penrith hooker and coach Royce Simmons to the temporary job at Widnes, who are struggling near the Super League relegation zone.
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