Mr. Rules main concern appears to be the balance sheet. This would explain why he went for the cheap option when hiring and rehiring our clueless coach. It also dictates that despite his shortcomings and the team obviously not playing for him, he will not be removed by JR and co. I think he is too much their 'mate' and not enough their boss. Yesterday he stated that the lack of cover for Danny Houghton was a major concern. A pity he didn't show the same concern when signing our 33 year old, rather injury prone scrum-half....oh, wait a minute i forgot we have Danny Washbrook, he always plays well in the halves. The only way Agar is leaving his position is if he walks. Rule would have massive amounts of egg on his face and he's never going to pay-up a 2 year contract.

Every game I go with a view we will win today, I even convinced a few people to go that don't usually go and I felt like a complete fool afterwards. I had been selling my team all week expecting a hard fought close game with Fc eventually coming out winners, excitement wipped up and at least one more new fan joining our ranks, what I got was if we can go watch Leeds every week then I'll definetly come, why would I want to come watch that - Why indeed!!

I have sat on the fence over Agar but I have got to say Average coach and Average team, we will make the 8 but only just the way we are playing. I will continue to go and shout my head off for them to do well but I have not felt so =#FF0000dissapointed in ages.

Agar needs to go; players need to demonstrate a hunger for confrontation and pride in the club shirt or need moving on. I think that's the simple truth.

The clear out we needed and still need is of the whole coaching establishment. We need a new culture top to bottom. Crooks and Last have been many of these players mates for all of their playing careers right through from junior rugby. Agar has been around the club as assistant or coach for , what , 6 years? Seems longer. We've showed that this dynasty idea doesn't work unless it's based on success in the first place. No amount of time will make this coaching set up capable of bringing a good young player through or changing a player's attitude from amateur to professional or indeed building a true bonded team. The club as much as admitted that last year when they had to bring Fitz in mainly to help Agar change some attitudes. We have little in the way of brains out on the pitch granted but to play probably the one player that has one , Whiting , on the wing is crazy. He's a loose man and we should start with him and put the rest around him. Yesterday even the normally brain dead Yeaman - who is playing ok at the mo - could see that we were strong at his side but persisted in going right. Washbrook was arguing with Tansey , Fitz seemed to be just perplexed at times. They looked like they didn't know each other , just the same at Headingly.
Out the lot of them now. Long can take over as , sometime , player coach and sign the ooc players that have something to offer especially Manu who must surely be looking to get away - how sad is it for him to be playing for us , imagine how devastating he'd be in that Leeds side. We wouldn't be any worse with no coach in place.
Utterly depressing.

It is, and the same comment could have been written last year, the year before, and the year before that.

Have to totally agreewith you

Me too

Yes, that's the infuriating thing. And it's goign to be like that for the next few years; let's just fast forward to this time next year when Agar gets another contract extension.

I know we get accused of being Gateshead but are we rugby league's Newcastle? We both play in black and white, both have an army of loyal fans who deserve better, others would say we have ideas above our station and both sets of supporters are prone to over optimism and subsequent deep depression!

Kath = Mike Ashley

We could sign the full melbourne side and within a month Agar would have coached any natural ability out of them, and we would be playing one man rugby with no backing up and a team that looks as though they have just met before the kick off.
Our board are very good at the business side, sales/sponsership etc but we need a talisman, a RL legend to be able to go anywhere in the RL world and be held with respect. Who can recognise a quality coach and help with top recruitment.
In a few years we have gone from a club with plenty of promising local players, one of the youngest squads, to one of the oldest and most unbalanced.
Watch the DVD of the 2004 season (i know we won the CC in 2005) and you can see we have got worse in quality and ability year on year.
Agar is not a cheap option when we could be attracting more fans to the games, because if he sees out two years we could lose fans for many years to come. 1,000 fans equates to roughly say £10,000 a game,over £100,000 a season, thats not a cheap coach thats a bloody liability.

As upset as i was I think some players did show pride and passion but sadly not all.