hopefully he's hard as nails as a coach and sets the expectation and ships out anyone who falls short of those levels. Will be at least 3 years before we turn around the oil tanker that is Hull FC IMO but hopefully he's the man to start the process.

Stage 1, get us fit and difficult to beat

When we thinking the official announcement will be?

In about 40 minutes

Surely must be able to bring 2/3 quality overseas players with him

well it cant be any lower
we are joint bottom

Think you could be right about Grix
Not a fan of giving the assistant the job when the coach has been sacked when they are all part of the team that failed.
I doubt the new coach knows Grix so could be likely to want an assistant he knows.
Wouldnt surprise me to see Gaz Ellis in there

Confirmed! https://www.hullfc.com/blog/2024/05/21/ ... from-2025/

Confirmed! https://www.hullfc.com/blog/2024/05/21/ ... from-2025/

I like his attitude already!

On what he expects his Hull FC side to look like in 2025, Cartwright added: “They’ll be fit, they’ll be hungry and they’ll be enjoying their footy. If we can get those three things happening, that’ll be an improvement from the word go.

Nice to see it confirmed. Just finished reading his interview and this stands out to me (culture alert for those that hate the word!)Culture is extremely important and at the end of the day, it means the attitude of your team.

I suppose the best way to describe it is that you know when you’ve got a really good culture just by being in the building. And you can also tell when the culture isn’t quite where it needs to be just by being in the building.

Everyone wants to win, but sometimes winning can hide problems within your culture. It’s about standards, it’s about behaviours and it’s about everybody in the club buying into it.'"

Absolutely this. Has the potential to be our best appointment since Gaz Ellis IMO.

Whether there’s any truth in it or not I had heard Gleesons name as the assistant.

Not sure as to whether Grix stays or goes, Cartwright won’t know many here in the UK to select as an assistant so possibly one of the reasons why Gaz is back.

He certainly seems a Coach that will work his players hard in training and let them know if they aren’t working hard enough.

Be interesting to see how the recruitment path goes now we’ve announced Cartwright.

No chance we get Gleeson. Just see that as a non starter

Gleeson, Grix, whoever. As long as JC is approving it, I'm happy. Really important that the coach has input over his backroom staff even if it's Myler and the club presenting him with candidates.

]How could Grix ever extricate himself from the failings of the previous regime. He is doomed by association. Seems un fair on him- he’s been asked to steady the ship with broadly the same tool. bar the London game when player errors let the team down he’s done ok where TS hadn’t. It seems he had to win every game to curry favour. He would be right in feeling aggrieved if Cartwright did not want him in camp.

A good man is a good start.