It's official! Welcome, Tony, and good luck.

rlhttps://www.hullfc.com/blog/2022/09/10/hull-fc-appoint-tony-smith-as-head-coach/rl

Really please with this, probably the best we could have hoped for, an experienced coach with a good track record of improving every team he has been at. Backroom changes (particularly conditioning) also needed too will is another bonus.

Add a couple more forwards and I will be pretty happy with the squad to make improvements next season. I was 50/50 of getting a pass, but think this will swing me towards getting one.

No mention of contract length?

Smith continued: “Super League is incredibly competitive, and success in sport isn’t always an easy thing to achieve – what it needs is everybody in the organisation on the same page, with plenty of positivity around the place. When that happens, you can achieve great things.

Interesting...

2020 deleted from the record. I can live with that.

That’s picky. It is a well judged statement, appropriate to the time. Reigns instead of reins maybe shows minds are on other things.

Welcome Tony.

Welcome Tony. Interested to see how such a hugely experienced head coach makes his mark on the club.

Has there ever been worse timing on a big announcement from us?

Welcome Tony, in my time watching FC I think he’s the first non-assistant signing which is ridiculous really. Big job ahead but he’s the right man IMO.

Don't think we could've asked for much more.

500 plus games coached.

Improved failing or under achieving clubs in his last 3 roles

He will need support, just hope the expert coaches dont call for his head when they realise this squad isnt good enough. We will have to wait and be patient.

https://youtu.be/csOI6gzpFNM Might be of interest

https://youtu.be/csOI6gzpFNM Might be of interest

Tony Smith is the best there was available at the present moment and he arrives with a real point to prove himself. He loves living round here and by his own admission reading between the lines he was hoping to step in at Hull FC one day although even he admits its early than he expected it. The timing of the announcement coming at a time of national mourning probably lets him fly under the radar a bit and it will be nice for us to be judging him on his actions rather than the pages and pages of sugar coated rhetoric jam tomorrow and flimsy promises these appointments usually bring.

He has obviously been respected, liked and even perhaps a little feared by the players he has controlled in the past and thank goodness the days of appointing an assistant are over and we have gone for a proven coach who has probably seen everything although there is little doubt even he probably faces his biggest challenge to date.

His appointments as assistants will be interesting and no doubt we will have more news next week as well as how he manages the 'troublesome' core of the team and gets a few of his own players in. The main thing is that he has seen it all and values and understands the importance of the corporate all embracing approach to getting improvements that spans right across the club from fans to the owner. Interesting times I don't think we will be bored in the closed season.

Rovers fans are really rattled