Should have.

Amor, Mariano and Ellis injured at the moment. But its pretty much full strength yes.

Yes should have!

Thanks for your reply.

It comes down to Agar's comment at the fan forum that he conceded our pack was light and so would have to play more intelligently. This seems to mean going round them than through them. I suppose we are paying the price for our recruitment. No big prop rotation and no goal kicker. I presume it is down to no one suitable being available and so you play with what you've got. If you look at the first 50 minutes, we were good. It was the way we lost the plot in the final 30 minutes that leaves a sour taste. If we had defused a couple of those early kicks, I think it might have been our game. Even for their first, Collis hardly contested the ball at all. Just let the Bradford guy get in front of him.

The problem I have is that we have lost two home games that we should have won, and was in our ability to win, and both of them were probably four-pointers for a play-off spot.

Agar has got his recruitment wrong for mine. Its ok playing nice fancy rugby but the platform has to laid first and our pack will lose more battles than it will win purely due to a lack of size. We lost the ruck again yesterday and it slows our attack down and speeds theres up, hence BJ having all day to put those kicks in. The fact the we didn't have the intelligence to adapt is another point and this isn't helped by our captain playing out of position and having to be spelled. Matt James would have been available for us yesterday if we wanted yet we played a second rower at prop instead. Can't agree with that tactic i'm afraid. And to go into the season without a goalkicker is just plain stupid and the missed kicks effects the confidence of the entire side. And despite our extensive recruitment of better quality players we have lost two games at home that we won last year.

Forget the talk of being a top 8 contender, we won't be close.

Now thats a suprise, most people i've spoken to believe these signings are not down to him, already signed up before he arrived.

If thats the case Agar is in the same boat at wakey, to the boat he sailed at FC.

Thats what i heard anyway.

Theres no doubt that some players were brought in before Agar arrived but some of the ins and outs are down to him and some of the choices made, like failing to recruit a kicker and releasing Moore, has to come down to him.

I agree, if its Agars call to release Moore without a decent kicker in the side it does seem a little foolish.

Different circumstances though mate.

Kears last game
Those lads had played 26 games prior to that one together (or at least a large number had)
Bradford had nowt to play for

vs

Almost whole new team
3rd game in still getting used to each other and structures in place
Bradford coming off a hiding against Wigan with a point to prove

A Kear coached team IMO would not have won that game (and certainly not with the squad we have - given it is not suited to 5 drives and a kick)

My thoughts exactly

The rugby is crap? - Its some of the most entertaining enterprising rugby in the first half and if things would have gone our way we would have been 18-6 up at least.
We lost the plot in the 2nd half.

I was bored to tears sometimes with JK's play.. It'll take time for us to develop some more compsure and a better ideas of where players are. We've 18 new players got to give them atleast half a dozen games.

I told you before and believe what you want or ask players you know, moore was forced out by agar, and no matter what the official spin was, the lad decided enough was enough at being ostracized for no reason, similar to how Mathers was at Cas. Im sure the lad would come back in a heartbeat but it wont happen while Agar is in charge.
Even if agar did not see him as his starting choice, at least now he would have an option as no goalkicker and no kicking game, and isaac John not really doing a great deal of anything. If Tim Smith was to get injured then there would be a real problem because he appears to be the only one making anything happen on occassions.

I think the fundamentals of kicking and catching need serious work!!! plus Bradford were running from dummy half 4 out of 6 plays in the first half and none of our players seemed to realise this!!! we had no control of the ruck meaning Bradford could run riot..

It was and it was not foolish it was personal, and without saying he would have ripped the league, he certainly would have offered a far superior kicking game, and goalkicking option than any of the current squad offer.
Now would have been the perfect time to bring in Moore, as clearly John in the 4 games I have seen has done very little. This only shows why Agar's coaching ability has always been constantly questioned by Hull fans.