Good post Wolfie!

From a recruitment perspective Agar has done an excellent job and along with the players who have gone out he has put together a really strong looking squad. I hope the arrival of the new assistant coach will give us a better edge when it comes to tactics etc and will bring fresh ideas to the side. Fitzgibbon and Long should bring extra professionalism to the side and certainly more structure and organisation.

I still have doubts about Agar's ability to make the right calls when it comes to players selections, he will have to make tough calls this year and not always go with his favourites and that remains to be seen if he can do that.

If we don't suffer massive injuries and we get our gameplan right then we could easily be challenging for the top 4. The playoff's have to be our minimum aim.

All in all I am positive about the coming season, having seen the shirts up close I hate the away shirt, it looks and feels awful. The home shirt however is imo one of our best ever, looks great and the material feels excellent too and with the additional merchandise we have on offer now the off field side of things continue to go from strength to strength.

Here's to a great 2010 on the field!!

I am cautiously optimistic as ever at this time of pre-season. The club is as sound as it can be in these times off the field and on it I believe the Head Coach has restructured well in terms of playing and coaching staff. The fact that we are all training in Nov/Dec with no late comers can only strengthen our chances at the beginning of the season. I hope that lessons have been learned with regard to match tactics, particularly interchanges. I really hope that we get some luck with injuries as this alone has been the single biggest factor weighing against us and the coaches, players and fans deserve a decent crack of the whip in that respect, particularly Agar who as a young coach learning his way has had more than his fair share to deal with.

Looking at the first 8 games we need to win 6 of them. If we win fewer than 4 I think Agar will be told to leave. I for one am certainly hoping this doesn't happen as stability is important but obviously if things don't go right it has to be changed. He knows this and has said as much on more than one occasion. If we are reasonably successful I'm sure some will claim it's all down to Dennis Moore and the new players. That would be pretty disingenuous if those same people were blaming Agar last year although there is some evidence of position hedgeing already on this board

When things don't go right fans are quick enough to shoot the board, the coach, the players, everything. Now admittedley i thought Agar should have been given the chop during last years dreadful season. But through out everything the board stuck to their guns and said he was the man for the job. The easiest thing for that board to do was sack him. Whether it was or wasnt the right thing to do to keep him on remains to be seen. But one thing i will say is every player says richard agar was the real reason they came to the club, whether that is just a early case of brown nosing im not sure.

The point im trying to get across is like wolfie i think the time is right for the players to perform, this is well and truely agars squad now. we stuck with him, and some say stability is the key, every coach likes his own squad and this is agars time to start compeeting week in week out.

There are one or two

I'm an Agar lover you said so many times.

No, I said you were agar's lover. Big difference

Anyway, I'm sure even a staunch agarite like yourself snapped at the end of last season and called for his head