Jamie Peacock enjoying fresh challenge at Hull KR

Jamie Peacock is looking forward to getting his teeth into his new role of Hull KR's head of rugby.

Peacock turned down the chance to join the coaching staff at the Leeds Rhinos, something he might revisit in the future, to begin his non-playing career at the KC Lightstream Stadium.

The former England captain has started working behind the scenes on a part-time basis and will go full-time next month as preparations for the Super League season step up and pre-season gets underway.

His new role sees him work closely with coach Chris Chester, including involvement in player recruitment, and three players have already arrived from the Rhinos - Chris Clarkson, Thomas Minns and Robbie Mulhern.

"What I'm basically involved in currently is implementing a high-performance plan within the rugby department, and making sure that is seen through," Peacock told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"There are 10 key objectives which need to be met and in this run-up to Christmas, it's just ensuring that within pre-season everybody has met the standards that they set out to achieve right at the beginning.

"I'm more involved with the standards of the staff but the players have their standards to meet for the staff too.

"I've had a lot of input into the squad but it's about understanding the strengths of it and where's best to spend the salary cap.

"Sometimes, a head coach's job is incredibly demanding without everything else that goes on around it.

"The coaches that have been at Leeds in the past have been incredibly lucky to have people around them who can off-load that pressure."

As for the offer to remain with the Rhinos, Peacock revealed he had serious thoughts about it but felt the offer on the table from Rovers was a challenge he fancied taking on.

"Brian (McDermott) was interested in me becoming a coach and I think it is something I could do - I firmly believe that," he added.

"But I find this more interesting; you have more time in this role to implement real change. Sometimes I think it can be too week-to-week as a coach."