You're right - no way that we will go on a run like last year again. However the next 4 fixtures provide potential to get 3 more wins on the board
Widnes (A)
Catalans (H)
Hull KR (A)
Cas (Magic Weekend)
I think we could get 3 wins from those with a little bit of luck/confidence and that would certainly help us and set us up for a tilt at the 8 again (although I don't think we will make it this year).

What I mean El Rey is that he has a responsibility to build a team. He isn't playing favourites because they are mates, he is playing the people who he thinks can do the best job. For me they are his favourites.

I think some see it like a school team where you might not be picked if not liked.
I'm sure Agar doesn't go out on the lash with the players. He just needs them to do the job in HIS way. If they don't follow or he finds it hard to work with them I think he should be able to get rid, even if a good player.

Here here we are 4th bottom behind Widnes it is clear he should give Frankie a go! We aint breaking potts thats why I am frustrated if we were going well in top 8 I would back him but we have been poor and we have let 1 of our better players go.

Give over, that is not what he said and he is only one of our better players in your opinionicon_rolleyes.gif

Are you frankie's dad?

Mariano has played 42 times for Wakefield
23 in 2011 14 in 2012 and 5 this season

So actually Agar has played him quite a lot though not as much as JK but equally there was no one else either.
19 games is enough for Agar to make an assessment in my opinion. Whether it is a good or bad decision it isn't a case of giving him a try, he knows what he can do.
He is not just not playing him, he is making a decision about whether he wants to play him, based on his previous games and his time at training.

And trust? Why is that even in question?
I pretty confident he isn't trying to make us lose so I trust him to do the best he can.
Right now I think Agar is good enough. Time will tell.

feel free to follow him to Fev and report back give it a rest

Why does he poop gold bars? Why does he deserve more chances than anyone else, he's had 5 starts he's not exactly been ignored.

As for Kear I wondered when that would happen, congrats for being the first to use that lame argument.

I see, sorry if i took what you said the wrong way.

No problem. I didn't really explain myself properly.

I Personally don't like the saying the manager has favorites, it makes it sound like there's something underhand going on, like he isn't picking his best side just those he gets on personally better. Obviously like everyone that watches RL, people rate players differently and that's exactly what's going on here and like what's been said before he's in the best place to make an assessment of said player. I don't think for one moment if Agar thought Mariano was better than the other players in the side he wouldn't pick him, atetd he's as desperate as us to win games, it's his livelihood on the line.

You are fast becoming a complete joke.
I suspect Kear didn't play him every week to earn your trust - he did it because he thought Frankie was the best available to him at the time.
The same reason that Agar is not picking him now.
If Kear had had Kirmond, Lauitiiti and the Annekin that we have seen so much of this season, how many games do you think Frankie would have got in front of them???
Bearing in mind standard practice is two 2nd rowers on the pitch and one on the bench, does he fit into those three places ahead of the ones named above?

Just out of interest, wasn't Frankie OOC at the end of last season? If Agar didn't think he had something to offer, wouldn't he have let him go instead of giving him another contract? Maybe he feels let down by a player he has rewarded with an improved contract based on his previous performances