What the hell can we do about it, I ask you. Personally I was not happy about his appointment in the first place. Coaches come and go but the one constant are the fans. Hull fans are the most passionate and faithful in the world and it should always stay that way, regardless of the numpties in charge. I will be going next week to support my team.

His CV, hopefully.

So will I, but somethings got to give. Blind faith is running very thin IMO, about time the people that can alter things start doing it.

wonder what his CV actually says....
hope his win percentage is written in david plummers "invisable ink"....

Its not going to happen though is it. The problem is they have been too quick to do this in the past. Johnny Kear, anyone. Persoanlly I have nothing against Agar. Seems like a nice enough bloke who gets on with the players very well. It seems to me though that he is learning his trade in the hot seat. Slowly. He could become a great coach maybe 5, 10 years form now. IMO we need a coach who has already paid his dues at the highest level - someone like Brian Smith, for example. We could keep Agar on for player recruitment, U20 duties.

Brian Smith wasa relative unknown when he came to Hull

Don't know what it would take for Rule to sack our inept coach. Player recruitment, the reason JR always trots out is no reason to give someone a 2 year extension. As RA is the cheap option JR knows his proud boast of being one of the most profitable clubs in Super League is safe....in the short term at least. The reason he survived the trauma's of last year was it wasn't 'his team', well it sure is now and that makes our ineptitude all the harder to swallow. Settle in for the next two years.

5 drives and a kick
5 drives and a kick
5 drives and a kick
5 drives and a kick
5 drives and a kick
5 drives and a kick

Should have brought in players who dont drop the ball and can tackle and wrap up players then....so it is Agars Fault

If he is feeling really brave 4 drives and a kick

I mean Smith as he is now, the old salt. Just an example though....hang on......


......Wayne Bennetts just moving in next door.....we are saved!!!!

Surely too complicated.
5 drives and kick everytime would suffice.

tbh thats an improvement on last years 4 drives and a kick to touch or drop the ball, so he's learning.

I forgot the "ball back inside move"

Isn't Agar employed as team manager? That's what we have usually had in the SL era.

There is a world of difference between managers and coaches. A manger manages players, on and off field. He employs coaches to train players to play to his game plan, he usually doesn't coach them himself. How often would you find Alex Fergusson, stood on the touchline at MUFC's training ground, calling moves for set pieces?

I have no doubt Rich Agar is a capable coach, not yet in the John Kear calibre (because Kear is also a coach and not a manager) but he is certainly not a team manager. A manager will take on board what his coaches and scouts tell him and will then use that knowledge to get the best out of his own players, while also pointing to the weaknesses of their opposition.

The manager will develop the game plan and that plan will be specific to each game. It will involve telling players, who may have played out of their skins in the previous game, that they will be on the bench, or possibly not even featuring in the next game. They are called managers because they manage to do that without some player spitting his dummy.

That is not Agar. He is not and I honestly believe, ever will be a team manager. He would make a good "John Kear": someone who has the freedom to analyse the opposition, influence the way a team plays and help develop players. They both should never, ever be given total control. Neither of them are up to the task

Agar is Hull FC's Head Coach.

No one thinks that, however plenty know it would be the first positive step towards it

So who manages them then?

James Rule?

Didn't he have a rugger match to play in this afty?

James Rule please do the honorable thing and replace Agar with a competent coach .....Ian Millward !!!!

a bugger match

Well to be honest he spent most of the time lookng at his phone and talking to his mate whilst at the derby. He was sat in the next row.

was ringing his solicitor to get agars new contract ready for the morning..

DoR anyone?

The Heatheringtons have previous.

Remember Daryl Powell?