He's sold 49% of it, he doesn't want to be any part in the clubs future, shame really.

Would he want to plumb new depths?

Griffin would be my choice .

pearson knows knack all about RL and if he were that great a businessman he'd never have bought our club.

I don;t know why he chose radford. I suspect radford was in his ear about gentle and his faults and that made him prime candidate to replace hi. What due diligence did pearson do before appointing him? Who else did he ask for an opinion? Who else did he interview for the position? I'd suspect none of them were done which is why we're in the mess we are.

I can understand your loyalty to your cuz but he isn't experienced enough to be head coach of any SL side

My loyalty is with my club, & you are just assuming LR played a part in gentles departure & AP didn't try to employ any other head coach, trouble is you don't know any facts, so you post on here things you think happened, how do you know AP knows nothing about RL? I would say he knows more then us after all he runs a club, we don't.

I would say that his actions and public pronouncements strongly indicate otherwise.

You would say this but others wouldn't, & just because we are fans of the club, what do we know? I personally will stick with him & not the odd poster on here who judge people who they know nothing about or the resources & hard work they are putting in, after all this board has no bearings on the clubs decisions or future.

I would say anyone who appointed lee radford as head coach of a SL side knows knack all about RL

Yeah you've said before...several times.

I also believe Radford's whisperings convinced Pearson that Gentle had lost the dressing room after he, Radford, played his part in that loss. It was then but a small step to convince Pearson that his trusty advisor - who had, of course, been proven right - was the natural successor. He, Radford, held the hearts and minds of the players.

But that is my speculation only, based purely on my reading of the unfolding events. I am merely looking in, and making deductions accordingly.

But you obviously do know more having direct connection to Radford. So what did go on with relation to Gentle? Why did Pearson become disillusioned with him? What part, if any, did Radford play?

I would be grateful if you would answer as this episode in our history has troubled me greatly.

The question you have to ask yourself is . Is Lee radford one of the top 12 Rugby League coaches in England .Because that is the position he holds . We are a top 12 team [ at the moment ] and is our coach and coaching set up a top 12 set up . 2 questions really but every one gets the drift

I would say your loyalty is more with LR than with the club, admirable though it is, in the opinion of many on here its totally misplaced. And your statement that AP knows more about RL than people on here is just plain silly. By his own admission he's still learning and by the state of the club he's still got an awful lot to learn.

So without sounding disrespectful to you, as you have been a fan for ex amount of years, would we know how to run the day to day running of the club? As we are quick to knock him for trying, & what state is the club in other then not playing how we would like them to, this could change over night ( I'm not saying it will) but we play in a very good albeit big stadium, youth structure is top of the pile with years to come of progression, we are in a decent place to make the 8 in what is the closest league for a long time, my loyalty is with whoever AP employs as I'm a fan of the whole club, & would never want to see us hammered or be in a place for possible relegation just to see someone sacked, & be able to say I've told you so, this to me would be gloating, as I've said before if we are then we have to look elsewhere for coaching/ playing staff, but we are not in that predicament yet are we?

Nowhere in your statement does it say that AP knows anything about Rugby League. At no point have I said that he is not a successful businessman but I do not believe that in the short time he has been with the club he has learned as much about the game as many who sit in the stands each match. I, personally, have been following the club since the late 1940's so, without boasting, I would say I have a much greater knowledge of the game than Adam, and I have no doubt that the majority of the fans could make the same claims. I'm not having a dig at Adam because I believe that he is the best thing that has happened to the club in recent years, but I do believe he has been badly advised and we, as fans, are having to suffer the consequences.

I respect you as a fan for so long, but if the club would have carried on under the McRae/ gentle era we would not have had the youth system as good as it is, & we all know this is the future as it is the top 4 clubs that are reaping the rewards for doing this years ago.