It's officially announced on Hull's website now.......

I never said I wasn't thinking about things deeper. I'm just not making assumptions and want to see what he can do as Head Coach. No one knows exactly what his influence was as Assistant so for that reason I am prepared to wait and see what he can do in his new role.



My opinion is that some people have the knives out and I am entitled to that opinion just as you are entitled to have the opinion I am wrong on that.



No, just support the team and give the guy a chance.

We know that he was at training every day and was always there on match day to help prepare the team. We know that he's supposed to be a 'natural leader' who the players 'look up to' and 'respect'. Adam Pearson has witnessed all this first hand. So, it's not making any assumptions to question why this wasn't enough for the players to give their best for him when he was only the assistant, and how this is likely to be any different just because he has a new job title.



I suppose everyone is entitled to hold an opinion, even if there's absolutely no evidence to support it.



As I said, these boards are for opinions. If everyone just said 'I support that' about every signing, decision or coaching appointment, there'd be little point in RL Fans existing. I think AP has taken a massive gamble with the club's short to medium term future by putting a 'management team' in charge with not a single experienced head involved. It might work, but I feel the odds are squarely against it. I'm deeply concerned that the little bit of progress we've made over the last two years could be undone just as quickly and land us back where we were under Agar. When the season starts, I'll be there at most of the home games supporting the team. At that point, I'll have little choice but to give the new regime a chance. That doesn't mean I'm happy or confident about the way I see things going in the meantime.

I suspect if we'd taken a 34-year-old assistant with only two years' experience from another club to be our head coach, many more fans would feel the same way. But because Radford is a 'Hull person', that seems to have been overlooked.

An assistant coach can have ideas about how to handle a team that he will put across to the head coach who may or may not take these ideas on board. Its possible LR was actively trying to persuade PG that his methods weren’t working and this may have been fed back to AP. AP may have seen how LR handled training sessions which again might have been different to the head coach.

Just because an assistant is around when a head coach is it doesn’t mean he agreed or had the influence to change things.

Not saying any of this has any weight to it but it’s a possible explanation as to why LR may do better (or worse) than PG.

For what it’s worth I do think you needed someone with a bit more experience as the job required at Hull is different (harder) to the one that both Shaun Wane and Anderson picked up.

My biggest worry in all of this is that AP said 2 years ago that he had the right man for the job in PG, so unless Radders hits the ground running in terms of results is AP is going to sharpen his axe if the players don't respond to his hardline approach.

Its hard to justify why Radford should be given any longer to get it right that Gentle was given.