Smith@Warrington - 1 season
Nobby@Crusaders - 1 season
McGuire@Wigan - 1 season (admittedly already a good team but taken to a new level)
Brian Smith@Sydney - 1 season

It's not the cards you're dealt with it's haw you play them and in a coach's role how you make them play.

Injuries have been Agar's most valid excuse, but not for 2 1/2 seasons. We've had no halves? Neither have Saints for a large part of the season and where are they playing next week?

I've been on the fence regarding Agar willing him to realise his team's potential this year, but I honestly think that didn't happen and now will not happen.

Don't necessarily want Agar out - listening to the senior players he clearly has something to offer and has attracted good names. I think we need to do a Warrington and bring in a Director of Coaching. A Brian Smith type would do fine.

Money is no excuse for Hull and the investment of the extra wage is prudent when measured against the extra income it will generate. In fact, it's commercially destructive not to do so.

But that is the thing, IF a new coach put 2000 on the average gate, after tax etc. that is about £200k a year, and a decent coach would cost us that.

Until we stop paying our cash over at the turnstiles/season passes then nothing will change.

So another year without a trophy

So who wants him back

Well said.... Maybe he has alot in common with Agar if these pessimists are to be believed??

I mean..... Getting beat by Sts in a Final...... And what the hell did Smith say at half time?? Imagine the uproar if he was our coach and did that!!

How about the fact that St George beat Sydney both home and away in the league rounds. That's also 7 out of 7 grand final wins for Wayne Bennett. Could you see the idiots who run this club going for a coach with that kind of success?

Smith can't have had that much money to spend. We had to have a big lottery just to sign Noel Cleal (I remember selling books of tickets!).
He was similar to McGuire when he first came. Had a good reputation, but relatively unknown. Turned players like David Moon & Brian Blacker and the like into relatively good players.
Until we show some foresight & ambition like we did in appointing Smith, we'll just have more of the same.
There again the drop in season tickets numbers, which will happen this year, will at least introduce a bit of pressure on the club to perform.