I've said all season that one baffles me. Out of the 2 of them, it's Agar who has been here throughout our decline, it's Agar who claims to be the attacking coach, and it's Agar who should be responsible for team selections and the interchange policy. Attempting to pin the blame on Sharp allegedly having too much say just seems like an attempt to excuse Agar with no real basis to support it IMO.

I'm not particularly convinced either are up to it, but I certainly wouldn't say Sharp is more culpable than Agar.

Where has the link with us and Noble come from ?

I am leaning more towards this...

This is the rumours thread

who needs links

I rate Noble highly and think he has done a god job with Wigan and would like him at Hull. However, he did have clashes with both Long and Calderwood and I wonder if that would be a problem for either player. I don't think it would be, especially for Long as he was willing to talk to Wigan about joining them but who knows.

Have you seen us with the ball?!?

We have the 3rd worst attack in SL, not within 100 points of anyone ahead of us. We had the absolute worst last season.

In contrast, we have the best defence outside of the top 6, and along with Hudds (where Sharp was coaching) the best outside the top 5.

Make no mistake, the bulk of our problems lie fairly and squarely with our attack, and it's by a big margin. We have a mediocre defence, but a phenomenally poor attack.

Noble and Sharp the 'dream ticket'?!?!

Can't believe people want Sharp to come in tbh. Look at what Huddersfield where with him, didn't even get into the play offs last year - now with only a few signings and a new coach they're in CC final and challenging the big 2 for the first time since us... He has a past record for holding teams below there potential and is NOT the type of coach we want.

The whole 'two equal manager' stuff doesn't work and I can think of few situations where it has, what message do you think it sends to your coach when you say: "Look we think you'll need a little help next season so we're bringing in a DOR to work above you, to overlook you." He's basically just waiting for Agar to fail so he can swoop in and make us average for another 2 years.

If we're going to get rid of Agar we need to get rid of Sharp too.

Do they? I've not seen anyone say so. In fact I think most people agree with your last comment.

(BTW though, Hudds did actually make the CC Final with Sharp in charge as well)

hes done a good job not sure about god

I'd be happy with the appointment of Noble and a few 0's should have fallen off the price tag of Fielden

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and his wage bill

Absolutely.

I also can't imagine that Noble (or anyone else) would want to come in knowing Sharp was lurking in the background.

Noble had Sharp as his assistant for GB, didn't he?

Yes

i heard tickle is defiantly going and his replacement is a second rower from parammata dont know if this has already been said, cant remember the players name, was something like '' iou ''

Hindmarsh!

Wouldn't get in with our current back rowers!

U might mean inu bt he's a centre and not leaving parra

someone with large gambling debts then

what another one

noble coming to hull.i certainly hope not.vastly overated.

Overated?No
Good Coach? Yes

Is it Muggleton

He should be signing for Rovers with a name like that.

Noble is best when he plays a forwards orientated game. He wouldnt be able to do that with us, unless he released the majority of: Dowes, Cusack, Tickle, Radford, King and Thackray (the only one ooc) which I can't see happening. That would mean Noble would probably fail for at least the first season here, and would people stand for that? I think the fact Agar is been slagged off is different because I think Agar has proved he is a terrible head coach for us regardless of the players we have currently