Bringing in a dor is an admission that the coach is not good enough and completely undermines him. Also another salary which we can ill afford.

I agree , that’s if we don’t part with hodgson . Like I said , a clean sweep is needed , hodgson , Clarke , conditioners etc . Pearson too , if we could , unless he hands the running of the club over to a dor .

A Director of Rugby does not run a club, he (or she

) overseas rugby matters.

We need a rugby man above hodgson , who Pearson let’s makes decisions about the rugby side . Pearson still knows nothing about rugby and what are clarkes qualifications for his role ! We are run like a championship team .

Indeed. Look at Wigan. Radlinski, club legends who vets signings and helps drive standards.

Hopefully find out shortly

Are you hinting at new ownership?

What does that mean?

Well there are a lot of very unhappy people on here and we all have every right to be bitterly disappointed and downright broken hearted, not so much for the result today, but more for the abject second half of the season we have seen as once again. Nothing changes at our Club when it comes to a total lack of any sort of accountability from the playing side of the club

Hull FC is at a real watershed and Adam Pearson must be at the end of his tether. As well as being at the lowest point I can remember since we moved to the MKM Stadium the inability to actually raise their game for a local Derby in front of 16,000 people is bad enough. However, when you consider that every one of those players knew that we are struggling to service the debts we have accrued during Covid, with the user agreement at the Stadium and undoubtably even before today with raising many season ticket sales next year, (all of which threatens their very livelyhoods), then the woes at our club are bigger than a mere supporter can comprehend.

Rugby Manager, New Coach new Backroom new players???? it's hard to imagine when you’re so low on funds and facing more holes in your future income streams, exactly where you start. We all know the players that need to be moved out but they won’t go and we can’t afford to do it and yet, what incoming coach worth his salt is going to take on the job knowing that is the case, particularly with the culture that prevails in some of the players we can’t move on, who seem to have an amazing ability to broadcast their inertia across the whole playing group.

‘The players don’t care about us as fans’, that’s a strong statement, but one I heard repeated several times, but with performances like todays it’s hard not to agree with the thousands of people who left the game before the end today probably saying just that. It’s therefore obvious now that many, many of the fans have stopped caring about the players and as such, are considering not renewing next season. This is if we're not careful as I said in starting perhaps the beginning of the end of the Club. Today was the players one chance of redemption on so many fronts and instead they simply and completely ignored everything as far as passion wanting and pleasing the fans who invest so heavily in them, was concerned, instead they did what they always do – what THEY want to do!.

We still love the Club for it is in our DNA and we don’t want to always win, none of us believe that is ever possible, but for 80 minutes a week we want to see passion wanting and most of all some accountability. Some self-sacrifice in exchange for the sacrifices we’ll all be making to go round another season. With the current economic demise of the country sacrifice really is the keyword here as well. Where do we go from here, I have no idea, but rather like the weekly round, the silence on transfer news, and the Player of the Year awards etc. etc .I expect we’ll hear little …… until the begging letters drop on our doormats. Some of our players should be pretty ashamed, but lets just hope someone has some answers to this lot!!!.

Of course you can go lower. I’m not saying you will but all sports have had teams that have been considered to good to go down. It’s attitudes like yours that lead to disaster.

Some of the usual suspects on here who lauded Hodgsons arrival now the most vociferous in wanting him out.
Same old, same old.

The guy is just so out of his depth it’s laughable. Not sure what Purtill brings other than a dismal record of failure and looking mardy. Whoever is responsible for our S&C must have won a prize or be employed on some sort of government scheme.

Pearson binned all the money into us winning two cups and falling short of the grand final. Now he’s not coughing up anymore, and he’ll surely find neither are the fans next season. No doubt there’ll be seven shirts and four training ranges to squeeze a few bob out of the true believers to make up for it.

When did he fail exactly ? You clearly are not familiar with championship rugby league (obviously) but in each of Keiron's stints at Leigh & Widnes, the respective owners withdrew their financial backing for the remainder of each season. Players went AWOL due to not being paid, and in Leigh's final game of the 2018 season we had to borrow 7 academy players from Wigan & Saints just to fulfil the fixture.

Heard a whisper off someone that Hodgson is gone.

Same person who's been right about a few things.

Pearson needs to be quick in announcing his replacement if true

Heard the same last night. I’ve really wanted it to work for Brett and have stuck up for him a good few times but no coming back from that yesterday.

Me too.



IF its true. Smith is the obvious and quick choice

Just hope If it is true that Purtill will be on his way too.

Sounds like a bit of a jinx, unless he's just unlucky.

As I said somewhere earlier. Next week could be interesting

Pretty sure Hodgson is not the main problem although we cant be sure he is up to the job till things improve with backroom staff and players. Both main assistant coaches do not seem capable. I am particularly disappointed with Gaz who has been great for our club but as a defence coach appears to be terrible. Attack is good on odd occasions but very slow and poor on others. Obviosly the injuries and bans dont help which also points the finger at the backroom setup. There is no communication with the fans and Pearson/Clarke just sit back and say bu??er all. Pearson (if he is still here next season needs to prepare for yet another massive financial hit). The fans forums dissapeared ages ago and this just creates loads of the moaners to putting forward their made up stories with nothing being refuted and many people believing their crap. I realise that Pearson and the club must be in a terrible financial position but they MUST COME FORWARD AND COMMUNICATE WITH THE FANS ON A REGULAR BASIS BE HONEST and fans will appreciate that and back you otherwise the situation will only get much worse and the fan base with dwindle substatially again next year. I would love to have the opportunity to air my views face to face but obviously theres no chance of that

From the outside looking in, all you need is a Rohan Smith type of appointment. Someone with clear ideas how you want to play, and immediate strong decisions on player recruitment and moving others out at all costs. Ruthlessness, and 3 year plan needed…
Some core quality players at you club next year (Connor, Hoy, Satae, Houghton, Savelio) lots of outs needed though…….
I know Houghton’s not popular in here, but I’d actually swap Leeming for Houghton if it were possible…..

I imagine this is what Hodgson sold himself as in the interview though, a plan to move players on, focus on youth, have a 3 year plan etc. We need a Shaun Wane character, someone the players will run through brick walls for and isn't too nice like Hodgson / Gentle came across

What FC needs is either a new owner or a new CEO with complete authority and with good sports club knowledge that can drive the organisation forward. Tinkering at lower levels rarely works in the long term.

We used to think that at Leeds, but we’ve now seen that we need to stop looking backwards with coaches who’ve been a legend at other clubs, and look at younger, fresher ideas, someone looking to really prove themselves. Someone like Hodgson I guess, maybe give him more time ? You’ve been decimated with injuries for as many years as I can remember!

If true, it’s a shame because Hodgson seems a good guy.
Still think he’s more of an ideas/pathways/admin guy rather than a head coach

Whoever is next, it can’t be an Assistant. Rohan Smith at Leeds has done very well, but he was a head coach of a reserve grade team, which is a good level.

I’d go for Tony Smith. Just think he’s the type to come into a club and give it an immediate lift.