he was also here under agar wasn't he? we had 2 good seasons in the 10+ years he was an assistant

We’ve appointed an Aussie coach, I think in the NRL they put a lot less emphasis on natural positions, outside backs especially seem a lot more interchangeable and clubs will sign say someone who’s playing on the wing but sign them to play centre or full back or vice versa because they think they’ve got the skill set. Also a lot of 6 or 7’s make the switch to what they call the ‘14 jersey’ as the interchange dummy half. I’m not saying the recruitment is particularly great or that they’ll all work out, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Cust, Sezer, Rapana and Cartwright Jrn have all played under Cartwright Srn. I’m sure he knows the skill set and trusts them to play the positions he has in mind. He could be just plain wrong of course but when you appoint a coach you have put a certain amount of trust in their judgement in players even if working under a DOR.

I think he was an assistant right back to 2005 under Kear.

He was in the staff but not sure he was the main assistant, we had Jon Sharp, James Webster was there for a spell, then Radders was with Gentle. There was also Andy Hay for a bit. Lost track of what happened when in all the mediocre disappointments

too much sense there Jake
you will soon be the new whipping boy of the Hull FC forum
And never mention that HKR are a good team

And I guess because in Wane's absence he was England Coach this year against France

The word “assistant" gives it away, he won't be running things he'll be working under the direction of the head coach. I think it's generally accepted that the appointment of Coach Cartwright is a good one so his judgement should be trusted. He's appointed the current England assistant, who would you suggest as a better option?

Ryan sheridan, Michael Shenton to name a couple. Someone who was an attacking player

Left in 2020 amd no one can argue we haven't got significantly worse since he left, even under Agar, things didn't seem as bad as this. The last two assistant were Gene and Purtill,one is unemployed, the other was managing Leighs women's team.

cas and les cats both got significantly worse during his time there though for balance

Its safe to say things haven't been this bad for decades!!!

Yeah, but there are reasons for that, one was Radford and the other has been poor recruitment by McNamara this year, who I think is a massively overrated as a coach.

OK, so we've established that when things are going well it's down to lasty and when they're not it's down to the head coach. Good to know

Be great if you could read, instead making things up, I've not said that are all, he has been at Catalans for a year, not much longer at Cas vs years 20 at Hull, better to judge him on that toke, where they were ups and downs, but all those years were better than thos year.

Definitely the most negative person on here, you skill to find the negative for anything that happens at Hull, is actually impressive.

I'd love to be positive if only there were something to be positive about