The thing was Sharp took us from being grand final challengers to a team who struggled to get in the play-offs. Dykes was a bad signing, not because he was a bad player but because he was very injury prone. Head was a good signing in the short-term however could never have stayed in the long term for the same reason as Dykes. He wasted our quota, at one point we had Dykes (who hardly played), Sing, Byrne compared to now when we have
O'Meley, Fitzgibbon and Berro.

Ultimately the fact is we were top 2 when he came and bottom 4 when he left which says it all.

2nd and 4th under Sharp....Hardy "struggled" did we......we havent even made play-offs under Agar.

Sharp came in with team in dissaray in 2006 and finished 2nd.....2007,cooke,Swain,Domic...chronic injuries and took us to 4th and 1 game away from eleminater....2008 and we struggled with Injurys and he laost his job for a damn sight less than Agar ever did.

Facts are a bugger arent they.

Im Agars biggest critic but he took over a squad that had been decimated by Sharp. How Sharp ever thought that the team he put together could seriously challenge is beyond comprehension. You only have to look at what a mess this team still is to see what Sharp did with his team full of utility players.

So what if he was a nice bloke with some funny one liners. He ruined Hull FC and i hope for Saints sake he doesnt get his hands on them.

cant argue with that surely

We were 6th when Sharp arrived.

The team he received on arrival finished 2nd that year. The last he left us with finished 12th. I don't doubt his ability as a coach but his signings were poor and he took us backwards.

How do we know who was avaiable and who we could afford?

I don't, but starting with a 2nd place side and ending up with a 12th place side is very poor. As for what we could afford, I'd assume Dykes and Berrigan where very highly paid. Sharp brought in Godwin when it was obvious that Swain was an 80 minute hooker and Wagga wasn't needed, he also wasted quota spots on Bryne, Sing and Dykes. He took us backwards, our results in the league prove it.

Spot on there Matty but i feel sorry for Sharp as his hands were tied,
He has been slated a bit on here in the past about his handling of a certain player situation when in reality He had verbally agreed to sign someone only for another side to step in and get him at the last minute.

Berrigan has not performed at all since his first season here. Even then he failed to match his reputation.

Sing was a poor signing. Any viewers of NRL at the time knew he'd lost his pace. Another total waste of a quota space and generally ineffectual for us. The way he slipped off Leon Pryce at wembley was pathetic too.

No-one is in a position to say if Byrne was the best available or not. Plenty of gambles are made on recruitment, and usually with good coaches - the gamble pays off. This said - Todd was o.k.

Cusack was another nothing signing. Almost any prop in the competition could replicate what he's brought to us. Steady Eddy types are not hard to find.

Hutch was not a gamble like Moa at all. Hutch was in the back end of his career and improvement was unlikey. Moa was a youngster and blatantly had lot of improvement in him. Really untypical Hull FC signing and a refreshing change!

Overall his recruitment was as dour and imaginative as his style of Rugby. The only gambles he took was on injury prone players that we suffered greatly for.

so has he got the job or not?

It finished 2nd after the changes he made improved it beyond recognition. His signings generally weren't bad at all. Having hands tied and forced were reasons for the poorer signings, but the majority were fine. We were screwed over by injuries and a defection, which are the main reasons for the poor performances at the start of 2007 and 2008.



Done this argument plenty of times and no-one has yet managed to tell me what it is they expected Berrigan to do that he hasn't and where their expectation came from. Berrgian has been very good in his time here, especially given what he's had to work with.



He'd lost a bit of pace (not that much though, he only really suffered in that area after his foot injury with us), but was still a great player. The amount of work he, along with Raynor and Tony, put in through 2007 was unreal. Possibly the hardest working back three I've ever seen. Picking up on one missed tackle to use as a reason for a player being a poor signing is even more pathetic.



He was undoubtedly the best available at the time to cover the positions he could, positions that we needed cover for.



He was our best prop for two years and I've not seen any other prop in SL perform the role he did as well as he did in those two years.



They were both gambles on big, overweight props who needed to get fit. Moa just about has, Maiava didn't.

So you think if Kear had remained in charge we would have still finished 2nd and made the GF ?

Sharp deserves a ton of credit for bringing discipline to the club and his role in bringing the team together and getting us to the GF despite how the team was in dissaray after we won the CC due to Kear pretty much taking all of the glory and giving very little credit to the players.

Cheers, but I've tried having a conversation on here with you before and it bored me less.

No, I've always said I've rated him as a coach however the quality of team he left us with was a lot worse than the quality of team we had when he came and thus is the reason he got sacked - his terrible signings.

Compare his signings of Hutch, Dykes, Godwin, Sing, Bryne to Agar's of Moa, Long, Fitzgibbon, O'Meley, Calderwood, Hame. He did sign good players in Manu and Tickle but it was too little and he took the quality of our squad down IMO.