Sitting in an unheated hanger at Mattioli Woods Welford Road while donning his trademark baseball cap, one might forgive the Australian for wondering quite what he had signed up for.īut there is veritable Aussie grit to McKellar. From the shores of Townsville to the shivers of Leicester, it is not just the culture of the East Midlands to which Dan McKellar, the new Tigers head coach, has had to acclimatise.