His biggest weakness in my view. A bit more imagination in some of his selections would improve him as a coach no end.

His 2 coaching mentors have both had a safety first mentality and their teams have played a % brand of rugby. Wouldn't be so bad if we were actually good at it

If Agar has not played MC due to a personal spat then Agar should resign. If MC was fit to play he would have been far & away a better choice on the wing in a game that could really have put us in a position of confidence going into the derby.
As it was we were pants anyway across the park but Agar's judgement is severely clouded & making mistakes like this & others will cost us any semblence of a decent season.
I for one would be prepared to keep him on a one year but if the rumours are true then who are we going to get for the next couple of years? More money wasted when we desperately need quality in the halves.

At the back end of last year when we had precisely zero to play for he could, and should in my view (and I said so at the time), have been trying players in different roles to see how thet went. I'm thinking in particular of Rich Whiting being given 3 or 4 games at stand off just to have a look. Who knows - actions taken then might have helped us in the predicament we are in now.

Possibly. He's certainly one of the few in the team I'd expect to have the ability to organise those around him

He should have been given a go although I don't think he is the organiser we need when Long does not play. It needs someone with a bit of personality and I can only think of Tansey in our current squad. The likes of Horne, Turner and Whiting need to play alongside a more dominant half.

Maybe so - the point is we would know more than we do now. Opportunities were missed by the coach IMO.

I agree he should have been given the chance. I have my doubts about Whiting in that role but it would have been the prefect time to blood him there.

Hasn't Calderwood become a much better player in his absence? He offers commitment and workrate but little else; I wouldn't be sorry to see him go at the end of the season if we found somebody with some cutting edge to replace him.

Having said that, if he's been fit enough to play for the last two games, i cannot understand how our coach is leaving him out and forcing Whiting out to play on the wing.

What is Whiting's preferred position? I'd like to see him at 13, but what is his preference?

I think he sees himself as a back rower. He'd make a good SR or 13, and a decent stand off, I reckon. Either way, he needs to be moved to a more central position.

He is. As enthusiastic as anyone in the squad, and more so than many. It's a shame about his injuries. I'll be sorry to see him go.

If its true about Meli then it shows us as a laughing stock again

Do we not like to have players longer then 2 years?

Why do they insist on only short term fixes?

why oh why another 30 something??

He prefers second row, but not big enough for me in that role.

Put it this way, the team you saw on Saturday is the team that will start against the dobbins on thursday , Agar does not have the balls to changed anything other than what injuries dictate.

I think in this case it's a shrewd move, the long term fix is Reece Lyne and Meli IMO is the best option out there for the short term. He's still scoring plenty of tries and as he showed at the KC he is what we need out wide big, strong and aggressive.

He's a lot bigger than Burnett, and nearly as big as Tickle.