I'd forgotten about the Chris Chester aspect of it all. Doesn't get much better.

To be fair, whay are you basing this on? The fact he comes accros as a bit boring?

he could be the best motivator going in the game. What is clear is that some big (relatively speaking) names down under must have some faith in him to come and play for him. Not that I am over bothered about imports, but signings such as Heremia, Crocker Omealy and Fitzgibbon wipe the floor with the likes of Motu Tony, Jeremy Smith, Semi and the like.#

If he doest turn out to be the coach I dont think its the end of thr world. Lets be honest, the goal for the next 3 years or so has to be to become a top 8 side - Agar could very well be the man to consolidate us and take us to mid table mediocracy, from where we can potentially kick on towards the top of the league with somebody else at the helm.

Can't see him taking us to Grand Finals and the Challenge Cup, but he could stabalise us and start the building that we need.

Gutted Agar's leaving Hull, I always used to enjoy his downbeat tone on Radio Humberside.

I'm sure he'll 'get us tactics right' for Wakey though, smashing fella.

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You could do worse than Agar.

I have been critical of him in the past, but there have been good things about his stay. For instance, it was him that scouted the Briscoe brothers back when they were playing for fev lions and he has a good knowledge of most levels of the game. He also made some other good signings - Fitzgibbon for example.
He has failings, too, such as not correcting our lack of halves and not strengthening our right-hand side, but we have still scored 50+ 5 times this year.

Basically, don't expect great things, but there are worse options than him. For example, I heard in one thread on here that Bobbie Goulding is looking for a club.

Apparently Agar is brining Ewan Dowes and Sam Obst with him..

If Agar comes to Wakefield then you could have done a lot worse. Seriously.

If he does then you are spot on and for me its not the end of the world Agar being the new coach, its the way its been done that i struggle with.

To be honest the way the second half of the season has gone its not going to take much to improve on this season. But has he got what it takes to take our club significantly forward. He and the people who make the appointment will live and die by the results and time will tell. I'm guessing he won't have been the most expensive candidate, lets hope that frees up more investment on the team because god knows it needs it.

Agar may not be the coach to take us to the top but he may be the coach to nip us into playoffs next year with a few good signings.


That's if it's him and I hope whoever is coach has identified the key area of HB and another quality addition.

I will give any coach the chance to prove they can take the club forward. It would be poor form on any fan to blast a coach before he's had a shot to show if he can hack it.

What do you mean?

Exactly Al, the mushroom effect is still in force it seems which is bad, agar will never be given a chance if we get off to a bad start which has every chance of happening and then boom back to square one again and another opportunity wasted.

I guess I'm basing it on the fact that he's not achieved much of anything at Hull, with a squad that has sufficient quality and £ value to be consistently achieving much more.

I'm with you on the imports, but I think you're wrong to believe that those players flew halfway round the world specifically to play for Richard Agar; they did it for money, something we didn't have, hence the comparatively poor quality of our imports.

I genuinely think he's the wrong man for the job - he won't inspire any interest in our latent support, has a poor record of bringing young players through and presents himself in the media in a very downbeat and negative way; all things that we need our new HC to be good at in this transition period. Also, by the way, reasons that I refuse to believe it's him until the club announce it, since the statement on Monday describing the important traits of our new HC is totally incongruent with Mr Agar's qualities.

I see this as karma for you somehow retaining your SL place despite a string of broken promises to teh RFL

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