You previously stated "Who would come mid-season?"

This is an option I have stated,they would come mid-season, as they are unemployed,

Or.. Shall we employ yet another unproven Assistant??
the next Agar,Gentle or Radford. -take your pick.

And of course the flip side of that is that (in your example) not spending that £90k may cost another £165k next season. So spending £90k now may effectively save him £75k. So like I said, possibly just sign one less player and it might end up being covered. Sign 2 or 3 less and you give yourself some funds for a new coach.

I'd honestly rather see a weaker squad with a good coach for 1-2 years than a stronger squad going to waste. At least that way it would hopefully be temporary whilst we bring some fans back in with good rugby and a team playing to it's capability, and money coming back in could then be spent on the squad again.

You're losing your own argument with comments like that.

Problem is now, peoples patience has run out. It was getting that way under Agar but he got binned and we believed again for a while.
Gentle came in, and to me he was underwhelming. I think people think of him more fondly now because of how bad it is under Radford.
The fact we have maintained the crowds we have, despite perennially underachieving, speaks volumes for the loyalty of the FC Fans.
Patience has gone now though. No more jam tomorrow. And you can't blame people for turning away and finding something else to spend their ever diminishing money on.

You seriously need to give your head a bang

You don't have an argument. You said I'm kidding myself if I think it's easy to find a coach. I don't think it's easy, and have never claimed it to be.

I don't work in rugby league. I'm not on familiar terms with any coaches or agents in rugby league. Therefore I don't know which coaches are willing/looking to move clubs, or how much they cost. That doesn't mean there is none. You don't seem to be able to grasp the concept that people in the game will know more than us about such matters.

Adding in your seeming requirement that our new coach should not be someone who is currently out of work after being sacked is just strange IMO. Plenty of coaches are sacked at some point in their career, it's the nature of the beast. A coach being sacked somewhere has absolutely no bearing on whether or not they are better than Radford.

Care to expand?

I don't want Horne to be given the job, but the sooner Radford and Last leave for me the better. If that happens Horne is pretty much last man standing, so if he acts as caretaker for a few months with a proven replacement coming in at the end of the year then I'm fine with that. He certainly can't do a worse job than Radford is doing.

I can, and do, grasp the concept. It's pity more people on here don't.

So what point are you actually arguing? Are you suggesting that Radford is doing as good a job as is possible at Hull?

Going on AP's previous, maybe we will get Ian Dowie in until the end of the season.

Spoken like a true accountant but pearson is an entrepreneur and he knows his only chance of getting his cash back is by us having some degree of success

All I said was


Fairly straightforward, surely?

No mention of Radford.

What I don't appreciate is this implied threat that we won't have a team to support if we don't keep turning up in huge numbers. How many other clubs supporters would put up with the dire standard of rugby we have over the last 8 years , and still keep turning out in the numbers we have?. Not many.
The mantra of "just give us one more year" has ran out now.
We've waited for coaches to assemble "their teams" and still nothing's changed.
Going to rugby is not a cheap hobby anymore. Especially in these difficult financial times.
I just feel we're reaching a tipping point this year. People are going to start walking away from the game, and the club will struggle to get them back.

So you're arguing a point I (nor anyone else, I think) never made then. Fans thinking we need a new coach does not equate to thinking it's easy, it's just exactly what it is; thinking it's necessary. It's not easy, but neither is it impossible. I don't understand why you seem to want to criticise fans over it, tbh.

The FC Hierarchy - Allam - Pearson- Radford - Barista/CCS. All losers trying to bluff people into things are ok. Believe any at your peril.