Well to be fair, after what I witnessed on Saturday I would have to agree with you on that one.

We can't afford to take too many steps backwards, we're already a touch too close to the cliff edge, a couple of further steps back and we will be over it

Probably because it is rumoured to be Smith, and we haven’t completely resolved how we feel about his time at Rovers and we don’t really know how we feel about this. Well, I don’t anyway.

His first interview after appointment and Peters’ first after arrival will both be really interesting, on a few levels.

I just don't get why most fans are painting him out to be a failure, which he wasn't.

I get the animosity towards him after his exit. But most Rovers fans have spent the last few months saying you've moved on from him.

It'll make that first derby extra spicy at least

2009 was a bad time for the club, the class of 2006 had either got old and/or had lost their mojo, a recession had hit and funds were low for the fans and an untested assistant was in charge...sound familiar?

Not at all. Everything I said was true. We got to the semifinals despite the three poor signings. The incident with BT came in his second year the semi final was in the first. I was responding to the statement that TS made good signings and offloaded players who did not fit into the culture. The three were not good signings and BT obviously did not fit into the culture of the club. As usual you choose to ignore the context of the discussion so you can make your silly snide remark

He definitely wasn’t a failure. I’d be entirely comfortable calling his time at Rovers an equivocal success.

He misjudged his leaving announcement, imo, but I’ve got no animosity to him at all - I don’t think the decision itself was wrong, in any sense. There’s a few things where, if he talks about what he wants to do at Hull in some specific different ways to how he talked about Rovers, it’ll pee me off a bit - even acknowledging these are different clubs in somewhat different situations.

I expect he’ll give Hull a boost, and he carries enough weight to sort out some of the perceived attitude problems that have been claimed to afflict your club for a while. There are some potential downsides, but there are always are with any appointment. He looks like a good option and he’s probably the best immediately available option.

Do you think Tony Smith is a top class SL coach who has improved every team he has been involved with including Rovers?

If Smith comes in and its odds on he will he will want to work with someone he knows and trusts as his assistant.
My only concern now is we are playing catchup with regards to recruitment with our second row particularly weak.
Getting rid of Taylor and Griffin should be a priority for Smith once he is confirmed, and if we can offload Evans it would give us another overseas slot as we surely can do better than Evans .

I'm willing to give Evans one more chance, he has looked good in patches but had a very stop start season with bans and injuries.

Easier said than done when under contract and no takers. Pearson surely cannot pay them all off.

We may have to keep them and hope the new coach can get a tune out of them.