thought it was a good honest interview

I can't get it to play ..."Awww, snap! This video can’t be played with your current setup." and other similar cryptic clues.

I'm assuming it's not restricted access? IE11.

Wigan highlights work ok.

Yes I know that, that's what I said it cant be Pritchard as Pearson said second row and centre probably from Austraia

All in all it's a good interview aside from some arguable points such as the unbalanced fixture list affeecting us. It was an incovenience but not an excuse for poor form.

AP has my support but the pressure is firmly on him and a good start to 2015 is paramount.

I'd say a good finish to 2014 is almost equally as important, and AP alluded to the same. He needs to somehow show that we are at least on the right track or pass sales will be significantly down. And he knows it.

Couldn't agree more, thats why i started a positive thread ha, but some bellend moderator locked it, seems to me you guys have no optimism either! Thank You, and goodnight

Last chance saloon I think. He'll probably get some buy-in for next season, but if they don't deliver then he's going to be looking at lots of empty seats.

When AP stated, that NRL Coaches dont understand Hull, obviously nobody told him Royce Simmons
ran 7 marathons in 7 days to raise money for the club.

IF we appoint a NRL coach in the future, I suggest Pearson conducts the interview personally, to determine
if the Head Coach has the necessary attributes of being a Head Coach. ie Leadership skills, desire,determination.

One thing I am certain, is that Pearson will act when he feels the time is right.

Well that was interesting. Someone said that we needed a State of the Nation from AP. This is it.

Got to say I agree with a lot of what he said. Disagreed with him saying an Aussie coach won't bring through youngsters. Gentle did this for us but look elsewhere and Maguire did it at Wigan, I believe Brown has done this at Saints. Sandercock even gave youngsters a chance at Rovers!

Sounds like Radford will be with us next season regardless of what we think. He addressed that first team performances need to improve next year so I think a bad start may see Lee getting the chop.

Also sounds like we could be in for a big clear out in favour of a more streamlined squad. He mentioned Rankin and "two other halves" (obviously Pryce and Sneyd). Sounds like Lineham is definitely with us next year but not so sure about Crooks based on those comments and that he says we're looking for a centre. If someone comes in for him I think we'll let him leave (a mistake in my opinion). If not I think he'll see out his contract. I hope this is the case and that he can push on and earn his place back.

Overall, it's very much jam tomorrow again and urging us to stick with them. Not sure how I'm feeling right now but plenty to think about and digest.

To sum this all up then, "next year we will do well!!!" how many years have we been spun this one, must be 6 or 7 in a row now?

Fixtures, who agreed with the SMC about the changes?
Players, who was the assistant when these players were signed?
Refs/RFL, same for most teams, got to use this to push forward
Youth, already mentioned about the youth/Hull lads PG brought in
Next year, who's confident at the moment

Interesting comments about having 6 games to show us what they can do and Hudds away in the play offs was a clear indication of a team not playing for the coach. If the players send a loud and clear message will anyone be listening?

Some strange claims in there, and some bending of the truth.

The squad was believed to be good enough for top 6 at the start of the season, but then they realised it wasn't good enough. It certainly should be better than 12th. If you and the coaches honestly thought it should be top 6 and now think 12th is not a major underachievement you need to consider whether you should be involved in the sport.

The stuff about needing a local coach to understand how to bring youngsters through and it not being possible with an Australian is just so out there it's hard to comprehend how he thinks people will swallow it. As others have already mentioned, it just doesn't stack up with how many young kids Gentle played, either. Plus, I personally think that when Gentle was in charge the youngsters coming in looked more at ease than those who have come in this year (possibly Lancaster apart). I found myself wondering whether he was knowingly talking baloney as an excuse, genuine believed it under his own steam, or has simply swallowed it wholesale from somebody creating themselves a job opportunity.

Also, the comment about every time we had an injury he was asked for a loan instead of playing youngsters. How many loan players did we have in the last 2 years? I can think of Russell (we had no other fullback in the squad IIRC), and Foster. Any others? Also, this year we might not have brought in loans to cover injuries, but we did hand out full contracts to both Carvell and Colbon to cover injuries. Was that any better?

Then there was a claim about the unacceptable form last year. The 5 game losing run he claimed - didn't entirely happen, we won a cup game during it. We also only lost a couple of those 5 by 2 points or less, and a couple of others by 6 and 7 points. Have a look at this year's fixture list, Adam, you might see a 4 game losing streak already, where the closest we got was 7 points, and in a couple of weeks I think you might even find this to be the middle of a 5 game losing streak where the best we can manage is a 6 point gap. I suppose that's all Gentle & McRae's fault still though, eh?

Don't entirely agree about Radford's signings being better so far, either. Jury's still got to be out on that one. A similar mixed bag this season and we'll have to wait and see next year.

Gentle not being brave enough to take on the cap issues is a tough one. From the outside we can't know exactly what that means, but if it's about freezing players out until they leave then it could just as easily be a disagreement over whether or not it's right to do that. Our behaviour to some players this year has been questionable to say the least.

Not sure what he meant by 11 in 17 at Wigan. If he meant from the youth system it was only 9. Also, 6 of those had already played first team before this season, so it's still a bit flexible with the truth to hint at this being down to the current setup and a sign of the future with the current coaching team.

I also wish he'd stop (or at least tone down) going on about the refereeing now. He makes it sound like better refereeing would have us in the playoffs and it just smacks of 'they're out to get us, it's not our fault' excuses.

He has some valid points, but trying to attribute all of the problems to the previous regime and paint them as the ultimate villains of the piece just doesn't wash IMO.

It does at least seem that he's aware of fans possibly (probably?) voting with their feet next season.

another alarming comment was that we have the 3rd largest salary bill in the league, a shocking stat for the performances we are seeing. Would be very interesting to see what the squad bill at Cas is compared to ours.

I think he will be looking at plenty of empty seats tomorrow.
My opinion is Adam Pearson underestimates the fans feelings about Radfords performance as a coach.
In his interview he is supporting Radford and said he will be here next season.
I have a feeling he wont

Good post, i think we can leave the forum until next season now