Quote: wrencat1873 "Kear gets my vote, for "the great escape" and his utterly dignified manner in
great adversity.
Also, the squad that was assembled in his last season was put together on the threads of a shoe sting.
Finally, the thing with Kear was that you got the impression that when the chips were down and all hope was gone, he could still get that bit extra from his players .
Mr Agar at the moment, seems to have dropped into the same category as
Tony (Casper) Smith and we all know how that ended.
Perhaps we need to line up JK for the last 6 games of this season.'"
There is no debate really, surely??? Saved us from the drop 2006. Came within 10 very bad opening minutes of a Cup Final. Highest SL placing in 2009. Moreover, we rarely looked a rag tag and bobtail bunch of disinterested losers under him. He got brick bats off some on here for unidimensional play. I would dispute the reasoning for that opinion. First rule of RL; CONTROL THE FOOTBALL. (Would someone kindly take this into the dessing room at Leeds as Agar seems not to be getting that point across very well). He referred to his famous 'procees of Rugby League' a lot; he understood that before you can play any flashy Rugby you have to have a base to do it from and the field position. Before you can expand you have to have the basics right and he got us getting the basics right 9/10 times. We also played some good stuff on occasion and NOBODY took us for granted as they do now. Kear any time fo me. I was gutted to see him go when we got some money into the club (or so it seemed!)