I don't think its down to anyone's imagination, you need to read back through some old posts including your own - as his time was up over 2 years ago according to a number of you on here!

Agreed, hudd-shay, and I remember Tony Smith himself saying it's best for a coach to move on after 4 years (even though he spent 7 years at Warrington!).

I suppose Fax can take some pride in being a breeding ground for assistant coaches. Cannot remember the last time one of our head coaches moved on to be a head coach of another club. Maybe Mal Reilly to Newcastle Knights? Peter Roe went to Keighley. Can't remember what happened to Steve Linnane. (The rest (Marshall, Farrell, Anderson, (Murell (an interim coach remember!), Anderson, etc etc went into oblivion or assistant). Ah, just remembered Matt Calland who went to Rochdale. Where's he now?

Didn’t t Linnane go to Salford?
As for S G good luck to him, I have put my pennyworth previously, and will leave it there.
As for the new coach, is Liam Finn ready, I know he has done a job a Dewsbury, however with some of the fickle people on here it will only take one loss for the knives to come count again, must be like being Julius Ceaser being Fax coach with all those ‘friends’ flashing knives about.

That, as i said, is far removed from abuse or hate.

Exactly this. There are a lot of people on their high horse at the moment about this hate that Grix supposedly got slung his way but has it ever been that way or is that the narative that these people are pushing. Yes we heard a lot of people wanting a change at coach but abuse? I honestly have not heard or seen any abuse thrown his way.

Same at every sporting club, it's not just a Fax thing. Its probably more magnified because we are a smaller community so its easier for voices to be heard when we have so few fans.

I have not bought into the abuse accusations. But what I find funny is the inference from some of you that only now is the time you believe he should go when you were clamouring for this a few years back and it's as if you have been waiting for this moment since.

Let’s remember with most of this forum and roughly five people on Facebook not being the biggest fans of Grix that equates to about 15 people . The core fan base is about 1500 so that’s about 1% , it’s just that the 1% shout the loudest.

Personally I thought we made a mistake appointing him, I probably said it at the time if anyone can be rsed to go back through my posts and you are right, I imagine this isn't the first time that I have thought or said that I think we need a change. But so what? It's not like I take great delight in him failing, I want to watch the best version of Fax that I think is possible, its just that I am of the opinion that we can do a lot better than we are doing now and he has run his time at the club. Its hardly like people were staking out his house with banners calling for him to leave.

He is going to love Hull then if they don't do well.

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From the Dewsbury site, reading the post from Coolie, it's not just Fax fans who thought we had underperformed or thought that Grix was a touch fortunate at times to keep his job as long as he did.

Yeah maybe you are right and getting interviewed live during a TV game with hundreds of thousands of viewers isn't really comparable to an interview for FaxTv. This must be some other Hull to the one that Ive known, he is going to have to develop a dam sight more thicker skin over there if we are saying that 15-30 people have forced him out of Fax(which I don't for one minute think is the case but some people on Facebook would have you believe it).

Looks like the Dewsbury fans love Liam Finn, and being a Fax lad he would be a perfect fit I suppose. Plus he's actually had head coach experience which counts for a lot. Cannot think of any other candidates at this stage. John Kear, even though I've always rated him, is too old and judging by his last couple of sackings at Bradford and Widnes might have lost his mo jo anyway. Maybe James Ford, who was once touted as a possible SL coach after doing well at York but I think he was sacked in the end so maybe not. Also he seems happy being out of the limelight ever since (assistant at Wakey, now backroom staff at fev). Don't know what Brian McDermott is doing at the mo.

Would like to see Widdop as a playing assistant. Not sure if he's really settled at Cas. I remember watching Cas - v Hull in the CC and Widdop threw out a pass which was intercepted ..... heard someone in the crowd shout "you're s**t Widdop". Big wow I hear you say, but little nuggets like that might tell a general ill feeling from the "volatile" cas folk who might think an ex-NRL-er is underperforming.

Fortunately I’m banned from that forum .