Tony Smith at ease with Hull FC contract length as he backs his experience to deliver
Smith has signed a two-year with Hull FC

Tony Smith is pretty relaxed with his Hull FC contract. The Australian has signed a two-year deal with the Black and Whites, not that he is worrying about time scales.

Can’t imagine the response if and when he signs a new deal?

He won’t be renewing
I can 100% guarantee that
I KNOW he won’t be here in Sept 2024

After the game on Friday he hinted at a year extension and then year on year. But you may know better.

How do you know that?

Bore off Keith.

I genuinely don’t know what that means. If you are saying I am someone else called Keith you can save you energy as I really aren’t. But hayho.

Wouldn't put it past the club to announce it tomorrow like they did with Agar

Not what I am hearing !
Hopefully we can all get excited soon

Excited about what? Him leaving to just get another inexperienced assistant in?

I would rather have an inexperienced assistant who would instill some on field discipline.
Sorting that out would keep us in some games.
Then improve fitness and speed
work on defence
Improve line speed and ruck speed
Then work on attacking options,with better last tackle kicks and turning teams round more with kicks into the in goal
These are basic things for any coach in R/L but Smith in his time here has failed to do any thats why he needs to go

Yeah but he's got a culture plan with no specifics and no due date, can an inexperienced assistant like Matt Peet, Paul Wellens or Sam Burgess offer that?

The old culture excuse
The word nobody knows what it actually means but sounds good so some fans will buy into that excuse

It's the long term / no time limit thing from Smith that annoys me, and the fact Pearson and Clarke seem to go along with it, they should be demanding improvements every year like year 1, stop the 50 point hammerings, year 2 push for the top 6, year 3 push for the playoff semi finals/grand final, can't just take Tony's word that it'll all come good, he should be judged on success criteria like we are in our jobs

I'm one of those that will buy into that. One of the best signings for our club in the modern era has literally just come out said there's a problem at our club that has been around since well before Tony Smith came along. Even in 2017 with a playing squad of far better calibre than we have now we had back to back 50 point home hammerings.

I'll hold my hands up and say I am guilty of wanting it to work out for the coach at our club. I wanted it to work out for Radders in 2020, I wanted Last to be given a shot fulltime, I wanted Hodgson to turn into a top find, and I want Tony Smith to turn things around now and set us up for some better seasons over the next few years. I don't profess to be an RL expert (and you might be reading this thinking I am way off haha) but I have reservations of getting rid of Smith and bringing in another assistant coach not because I don't want all those problems you've listed fixing, but because people in the RL media who have far better knowledge than me are saying Smith is that man to change things.

What if AP thinks he is close to selling up and is leaving it to the new owners to decide Smiths fate? Either way the results should dictate that Smith can’t get an extension

They is no doubt in my mind he will get an extension.