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Quote: Mrs Barista "I don't think that's entirely fair. Agar's been in the job 2 years now. We're spending up to the cap but his squad is not balanced and we have one recognised winger, a 34 year old scrum half with NO back-up in this crucial position and only really O'Meley as a class prop. The team and Agar openly admit to not studying the opposition to formulate a gameplan and Agar comes out with comments like "I told them to have a good dig" and "I told them - if you see it, play it" which are hardly meticulously detailed plans. James Webster commented on the fact that Justin Morgan, for example, provides far more detail and direction in terms of tactics and individual contributions. Look at what Brown and Maguire have done with non-superstar squads and you can see the impact of top class coach. Agar seems nice and works very hard, but to settle for him is accepting failure to challenge for silverware IMO.'"

Sums it all up for me. It was always a big risk with Long granted, but then a decent coach would have made sure there were contingency plans. Our contingency plan seems to be if Long is out stick Washy in there as he has done it many times before (regardless of the fact the partnership has yet to suceed). The fact we have all heard players say they concentrate on their own game rather than the opposition speaks volumes about the coach and his staff for me.

I admire Wolfie for sticking to his beliefs about Agar and people should not be getting on at him about it. I think Wolfie would not be too upset if we parted ways with Agar and brought in a big name coach with with a good pedigree.

Lets face it Hull are one of the big clubs and it should be the smaller clubs who are test driving the unknown coaches. Leeds took Smith from Huddersfield after he proved he can do a job with a poor squad. Time we started doing the same.