What's peoples opinions on hull fc live ? Was thinking of getting it

It's a huge year. Pearson still has that one ace up his sleeve, and if we get come away from Easter, 8 games in, without seeing that improvement in performances or a healthy league position, then he has to play it IMO.

When was the last time Hull FC employed an experienced Head Coach who was proven at gelling a group of individuals into a team ??, (Kear? )

McRae.

Kear was an assistant who led us to the CC Final.

I don't buy the 'proven head coach' argument. Firstly, because SL comes second to the NRL, there aren't many who are realistically available. Secondly, plenty of other successful sides employ assistants or coaches with little experience. Thirdly, I believe its more about the person & their knowledge, skills in man-management etc, than whether they've specifically been a head coach or not.

There are arguments either way. For every Richard Agar, you have a Darryl Powell. For every Brian Noble you have a Michael McGuire. There isn't a set formula I'm afraid.

Well worth the money IMO, especially if you can't get to all the games. I've had it every year since it launched.

You get a good discount on it if you're a member/pass holder as well.

Dont know about proven but Brian Smith did

cheers kosh

You need to appoint an assistant with plenty of experience who is ready to step up, not one with a season or so as an assistant under a coach deemed a failure. There's a lot of difference between appointing someone who has worked for some time in a high performance set up and one with scant experience, all of it gained in a failing environment. The job came too soon for radford. Even if he does OK this year, the last 2 seasons have done massive damage to the level of regular support at the club

Agree.

I wasn't defending the appointment of Radford at all. I was saying that an appointment doesn't [ihave to be[/i a proven head coach like some demand, but the right assistant is capable of doing a very good job as a head coach. Hence I referenced the disaster that was Agar, or the success in McGuire at Wigan.

Just because you don't agree, it doesn't make my opinion rubbish.

I think you will find there are several reasonable and supported comments.

Contrary to your input to this thread.

I do agree with your point about the lost confidence. I suppose the issue here is who would be the right person to bring in and at what point would the trigger get pulled?

We could throw names around all day of who we'd like to bring in, we've all got a wish list with Darryl Powell somewhere near the top.

When does the trigger get pulled? It needs to be fairly early IMO due to the favourable start to the fixtures we have - if performances are still poor and we're not picking up points.

I put earlier in the thread Easter Monday. That'd be 8 games in. The first 8 games are:
- Salford (H)
- Catalans (A)
- Cas (H)
- Wigan (H)
- Widnes (A)
- Wakefield (H)
- Rovers (A)
- Warrington (H)

For me he has until then at least.

As a neutral I think you'll get 10-12. Anything below 8, barring a disastrous run of injuries, would suggest Radford's probably gone as far as he can. But I doubt that'll happen.