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give him 6 months

No more than one season at best

Club will be searching for a permanent coach mid season yet again. 3 successive seasons of replacing the coach mid season shows that there is no long term masterplan to take this club back to the top.

We will win the GF next season. JK.

same coach, same players, same outcome.

Don't really get the point of locking the other thread where this was already being discussed to open this just for the sake of it...

That's the club basically writing off the next 12 months then.

Looks like they are not expecting to get anyone (or many) out without their contracts expiring so they took the easy option of continuing with Agar until they can get some new players in for 2021.

Can't see this endearing them to the occasional visitor to Headingley or as a mechanism for convincing many wavering Season Ticket holders.

This is bad news financially speaking.

After a one hundred & fifty page thread, that's a big disappointment!

Oh well, at least he's guided you to safety.

I think you mean, at least he managed to replicate the form of the bottom team in SL as we are no further in front of them now than we were when he took over. This is why people are less than excited about announcing him as permanent.

Nothing in his CV says he should be permanent Head Coach at Leeds.

Or, you know, he might work out and the team might start improving next year.

I don't give a monkeys about his CV, I care about what he can do for us next season and I'll judge him on that.

I can only assume you're right fgb. We've appointed a coach who was no longer even trying to be a coach because no one would hire him based on his record.

I think we've gone that way because of two things.

First, over reading how 'well' he's done this year.

Second we're gun shy because of Furner.

None of these stand any real scrutiny. His record this season is nothing at all to jump up about. 5th in a table where half the teams suck completely, with three new signings? Sorry for not praising the messiah. I reckon quite a few coaches would have done at least as well.

As for Furner? Yes he was terrible but that says more about the people who hired him than anything else. If you sign a supposed star and they don't work out do you then sign numpties because of it? No, you try to do better with the next one. Ditto coach.

I hope Agar proves me wrong, but his appointment is gutless IMO.

Overall bad news, don't expect him to be here at the end of next season because he wont last the season, there must be method in their madness. Will it hit them financially?? yes it will. Three poor years out of the last four seasons and no one can convince me that we have turned the corner.
All I can think of saying is that whichever way we look at it maybe after the Furner issue no Australian wants the role, that we are limited with a low choice of top class English coaches and with having to pay off Furner maybe Agar is all we can afford, he is the cheap option. Lets hope we end up with a solid number 2.