If we're to bring in someone external, the likelihood is it'll be an NRL assistant I think, but it's still a bit of a gamble. As someone on the Hull forum barked at me, "what about McGuire, Robinson or Holbrook", yeh, true, but for each one of them there's at least one David Furner.

The next coach is critical for the club. There's been some heavy investment into the playing squad this year and we need the right man to capitalise on it.

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.