im happy for radford to be given ago, time will tell if he will be a success or failiure

too many people are expecting too much from pearson

Your missing the point completely.

None of those players retired and immediately went into the role of assistant coach at the club they had just retired from.

It wasn't my claim. I said I broadly agreed with the thrust of Mrs B's post. To be honest, I don't know if he's more interested in business than rugby or not. The rest of the post was spot on though. I also agree with Hollywood's suggestion that the post might have been advertised externally.

DAWN OF A NEW ERA Lee Radford the assistant coach of Hull FC.

Talk about being brought back down to earth with a bump.

Stuart Wilkinson has been rumoured to be in for the Castleford Assistant coaches job. He would have been perfect for the Hull job. Very experienced and qualified coach with a track record of working in good Academy systems. Just what you need i think.
Radders may go on to be a very good coach but it is going to be a very steep learning curve for him at a time when Hull are looking for pretty swift success. There have also been some pretty mixed reports about his methods of working with the under 15s although i accept that working with kids is far different than working with full time pros.

Ok so lets do away with interview processes and just simply bang the names of recently retired players into a hat and pull 1 out at random.

I did if you can't be bothered to read today's posts that's your prerogative.

Every new appointment we've made so far has been high risk IMO. mcare as DOR - never done the job before (although probably has experienced much of the workload as a head coach), gentle as head coach - never done the job before, radford as assistant - never done the job before, head of player performance (the conditioner guy) - never worked at this level before, the new physio - unsure if she's ever worked for a professional sports team before. Now these may prove to be inspired appointments, but there is a high chance that not all of them will be. I would have preferred to have seen some more experienced people appointed although there may be an element of cost saving involved

does it matter?

they still went from retiring from a club to go straight into an assistants job

you still havn't offered any alternative though!

powell?

why would he want to leave the top job at featherstone who are flying at the moment to be an assistant at fc?

if anything he will be wanting to be a head coach at a SL club!

Not the point im making, im saying how can you write him off before you've seen how he goes?

because thats the majority of the mentality of fc fans!

Hollywood hasn't written him off, he's just said he wouldn't have been his choice.

Are we appointing another assistant coach?