Lack of quality being recruited? We have signed an England international an ex-new Zealand international, a Challenge cup winner who has the potential to be great darn lane, we have Gilmour who is one of the most experienced player in the Super League. A winger who was showing incredible promise before an injury and Hauraki who showed what he can do when he got played every week at Crusaders.

Happy Days await then.

agar's useless. He and wakefield make a good match

Agar has thrown a group of players together a matter of months before the season began, he had a limited budget compared to many teams in the league. To make the playoffs is a great achievement and deserves all the praise he gets, I know there are a lot of hull fans who are pleased for agar that he is doing so well at Wakefield.

First of all, you can do nothing other than agree with the op, Well done Richard Agar !
Has he done well at Wakefield ?, yes. To assemble a squad from virtually nothing, and then to take the club from a 13th place finish to 8th, without doubt makes Wakefield the most improved team in the comp.
It may prove to be a "lucky" first season in charge and there is no doubt that there will be somewhat more pressure on his shoulders next season as Wakefield will be expected to finish in the 8, but for season 1, he has done great job.
Argueably, he has acheived the maximum that can have been asked of him, so for all the Bulls fans that think their team should not have had a points deduction and the FC fans that say Gentle has done a better job at Hull, be honest with yourselves. This guy HAS done well

I have to confess I was not happy with his appointment and come mid season hand on heart couldn't wait to hopefully see the back of him. I don't know what happened mid season but it was truelly unbelievable the turn around in fortunes. He has to take huge credit for this.

Big pat on the back to all concerned, I got it badly wrong - fingers crossed for some quality signings and another push at the 8 next season.

Agar has done well but crucially at Hull he made inept decisions, was a yes man and couldn't come up with the tactical nous that we needed to progress nor even motivate the players it seemed.
You(wakey) had a 7 game winning streak which was excellent, however we had an opening season 5 game winning streak in 2009 beating Wigan, Catalans, Hudds, Bradford & Crusdaers, not a mean feat at all. It all went tits up as we lost 6 on the trot to Cas, London, Salford, Rovers, St.Helens & Wakefield. We went on to win only a further 5 matches the whole season including the CC & a play off game against the dobbins at home. I really hope that doesn't happen to you next season but I fear this season end was a flash in the pan and Wakey won't reach the play offs next year. (& no I aint gonna do a Schoey if they do..lol)

I was very much against Agar during his tenure at the KC, as a person he is a nice bloke but as a coach he was out of his depth. I was however very interested to see how he would get on at Wakefield this season with no interference from the board etc.
The season started poorly for him and the Wildcats but you have to give him and the team credit for turning it around in the latter part of the season. He had the benefit of having no pressure on him this season as the expectation levels are lower at Wakefield (not a dig a Wakey) he also has the benefit of having a few more years coaching experience under his belt. The acid test of course will be how they kick on from here.
Good luck to him as we really do need some good British coaches coming through.

Nice to see balanced comments from FC, good on ya.

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I think Richard Agar has done a superb job and his achievements surpass those of Gentle, Wayne and Potter making him the best candidate for SL coach of the year

You're spouting total rubbish fella, the Leeds Wakefield game was in the balance right up to the last 10 minutes. Wakefield lead three times during the game and bombed a chance with just 9 minutes to go. Leeds scored twice in the last 6 minutes to secure the win.

If you think that constitutes a thrashing because of how the scoreboard read at the end then you're a fool who as no understanding of sport.

Wakey fans said this about Kear too. Look how that turned out.

Agar was a terrible coach, had no respect in the dressing room and ended up as a Hetherington puppet. We were well rid of him and his "pick my mates" methods.

Hull have massively improved this year under Gentle. We didn't beat Leeds under Agar either, if I remember correctly.