He runs pubs? Oh, why didn't you say so earlier? I take it all back, he'll be a great appointment. I reckon we should get Andy Dannatt in as his assistant.

Have to say I would rather keep Gentle as head coach than have Radford. If it is true that PG has walked out is it player power? Or does he feel he is not able to take us further?

The worry for me is we have been here in this scenario already and it's never worked well, Kear moved up from McRae & Agar from Sharp. We an experienced coach with proven ability.

Radford will no doubt make a good head coach at some point but still feel he needs more experience if coaching at this level and senior players.

Stepping back and looking at the season as a whole and what's happening now does make me wonder if the tail is wagging the dog so to speak.

You'd have a bloke who wasted his career because of his love for a pint or 12 involved with the coaching of our squad? Why on Earth would you want to do that?

I think he's joking Kosh!

Experienced coaches aren't exactly falling from the sky are they? Why would an NRL coach give up his job and move to the UK?

Well they wouldn't.

Nor would the majority of assistants.

Watch some NRL mate, it's looking like a great game.

Lets face it, Udders was a sackable offence. Gentle has to go, so do some contracted players, and before anyone whines about contracts in place, i think we all know now they are worth zip. Ask AP and Koukash.

I dont really care at this point who is the talk of coming in, as if/when the post becomes available, those who really want to be here will be applying, then pick the man.

Hopefully on the players front, Langley has a MOS season at Rovers, just to show AP we should have signed him. He has more medals than Ellis, DJ, Yemo, Westy and various other damp squibs

picking up these unproven coaches is nothing but a gamble, masquerading as a informed decision. its long over due that we bring in a coach with some kind of track record. it may not bring about the word domination that uncovering the next hidden gem of the coaching world would, but at least we could get some stability and build some momentum towards cracking the top 4.

however, its my opinion that Radford may well remain the assistant to a newly appointed head coach. its early days and there's nothing stopping AP from looking at whats available. the last thing AP wants to do right now is come out saying that we are gonna bring in a world class coach and then not be able to deliver, he's had his fingers burnt in doing that already, when trying to bring in a scrum half. if there is no one he fancies for the job, then Radders gets it, and all the while in the press its looks like AP showed faith in Radders from day dot.

Peter Gentle may not be the right man to lead Hull FC but Lee Radford definitely isn't. He and his drinking buddies will turn us into a 1980s pub team.
Our attacking structures will be even worse than this year if we have the defence coach in charge.
Relegation will be more likely than a top 4 finish.
I hope Adam Pearson's promised review of everything to do with the first team squad will not start and end with sacking Gentle. I would like to see him sack some of the players who let down Gentle so badly.

I think you will find they are worth rather more than zip actually, particulary when it comes to cancelling them for reasons not stipulated in clear unambiguous words within said contract. Unless a player's contract contains specific performance related targets, then cancelling them without compensation is no easy matter.

We are all surmising that Radford could possibly be our next coach based on the HDM (Smailes) reporting Radford is favorite to take over, but then goes on to report that Pearson or any other club rep was unavailable for comment, good journolistic guesswork to stir the pot. Although I am quite concerned as to what will happen next season with regards to who our coach will be, especially with relegation looming, I just hope for the sake of the club Pearson is very careful who he takes his advice from.

Tim Sheens.