I'm of a similar opinion to most on here. It's no real surprise that he's been given an extension as Pearson clearly believes in him. Like most I personally would have waited a little while longer to see how the season pans out and I would have been inclined to keep the extension to two rather than three years, but that is simply my own personal opinion.

The plus side of this announcement is that our plans are in place for (hopefully) moving forward over the course of the next couple of years with a stable set-up and structure. This should help in terms of recruitment, both on and off the field, an area in which we appear to be moving in the right direction once more after a number of underwhelming years.

I'm still not wholly converted to Lee as potentially the man to start fulfilling our long dormant potential, but I am encouraged with the progress that we clearly are making, both in terms of results and performance. That progress, incidentally, has essentially been happening since Easter last year. After the debacle of Good Friday 2015, I genuinely had fears about where we were heading, but since then there has been a steady improvement and the rate of that improvement appears, on the surface, to be steadily increasing as well.

After a shaky opening 14/15 months to his tenure, Radford appears to be steadily growing into the job (and that is without any real knowledge of changes he has instigated behind the scenes). He's done enough to deserve the chance to take the club further in my opinion. Even if Pearson had decided to make a change, who, realistically, could he bring in. Any change (merely for the sake of change) brings with it, it's own risk of disruption.

Either way, he's here, he's our head coach and he will be our head coach until at least 2018 in all probability, so we may as well get behind him and the team and let's hope the Fc rollercoaster has more ups than downs in the second half of this decade.

Heyup Bumpster. Read the last sentence again, this was obviously aimed at you and your more relaxed attitude this season. Keep it up, continue to relax and don't react before re-reading the posts. Perhaps you should move to glorious Yorkshire, drink some tea and sleep soundly in your bed.

Your ability to gauge the passing of time is as poor as your pathetic attempt to bypass the swear filter.

Come on, where have I gone into one, started throwing insilts used belittling jibes at someone over their opinion regarding our club.
For sure I've responded to those jibes and insults with similar at times but I always try to reason an arguement if I disagree.
So out of the thousands of posts I've made how many have being disrespectful to others opinion, how many would that be for say the likes of staffsfc, easthullfc fan, wizeb (see above) to name a few that go out of their way constantly to derail threads and throw insults and use of words to enflame threads because they didn't respect an opinion?
Please do tell so that I can mend my ways and be more respectful to other's opinion.

There's one common denominator in the thread derailments you mention.

I'll let you figure it out.