It's pretty frustrating.

Kear 2005/06, promoted from an assistant - won the cup
Peter Sharp, assistant NRL coach, 2006-2008. great 06-07, awful start to 2008
Agar, promoted assistant, 2008-2011, awful
Gentle, NRL assistant, 2012-2013, underwhelming despite a cup final
Radford, promoted assistant, 2014 - unforgettable cup wins, but a lot of frustrating underachievement

Each one of those has been a gamble. For a change I'd like us to go and recruit that proven world class coach, but I fear that Last/Purtill will string a run of games together and one gets the role fulltime - that seems to be the Hull way.

To be fair, given his recent outbursts it’s obvious the guy just likes the sound of his own voice. It’s like he’s trying to be noticed for some reason :s

Pearson was asked if they knew and he saod something along the lines of "they'll be getting told now I presume"

It's all relevant, isn't that what's causing all the opinion on this thread, personally I'm indifferent to the sacking of the coach, it's the nature of the beast you stand or fall by your success, the fact that Pearson decides to do it in public and not in private as the owner is his decision to make, when Hull are on TV you don't normally see Pearson doing interviews so I wonder how much encouragement Sky gave him to use the Sky media circus to do it, as when the camera's panned in on Radford during the game he looked like his heart wasn't in it, so with a smidgen of hindsight I'd say that he already knew he'd gone.

Paul Cooke has wrote a very good article in the Hull Daily Mail. Sums it up perfectly imo.