It says on the BBC that he's going to coach the reserves. Is he doing this as well as the first team attack job I hope, as I can't see him coming just to run the reserve team or is it an error on the beebs part

Club website, announcing his appointment.....

Any update on the additions to the backroom staff? https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ch-3359706

Any update on the additions to the backroom staff? https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ch-3359706

Sounds like we are going with what we have so Purtill a replacement for Horne,and that’s it.Either Radford doesn’t want to many voices or AP not wanting to spend extra on the coaching department

… or, as AP has already stated, they'll only appoint someone when the right calibre of coach becomes available.

Indeed. It's a fairly small pool in the UK I would have thought?

Has Purtill started yet? as with all the media stuff so far since pre season started I’m surprised I’ve not seen a glimpse of him.

Thought I’d read somewhere that the defence coach signing was done but waiting while his season had ended?

I asked the question to James Smailes, he indicated that a defensive coach would not be signed.
More on this, will be in HDM later this week..

Regarding Purtill, I hope he will have a major input on our attack prep.....

This is what was said when he got the jon didn't he, as a former halfback, i'd expect that this will be his role and radford can get our defensive structures right (like it was for most of 2016/17).

I don't expect us to play a Cas (2017) style of play, but think we will look to offload more, partitcualy with the type of players we have signed, if we improve our support play, this sould also see our attack improve.

We know we can play, we showed this last season ina few games (Catalans and Cas away), we need to do this more consistantly.

One big area that needs to improve is our attacking kicks, we can score from bombs, but we hardly scored trys from grubber kicks and we use to score a lot of trys this way in the past.

Purtill has 3 roles to do.
1.Reserves Head Coach.
2. Head of Emerging Talent Squad.
3.Attack Coach.

I hope his Attack Coach duties are primary, and not secondary.. or thirdly...

I don't imagine that the first one will take up too much time, 2 (This will link in with 1) and 3 are massivley important, one short term and one long term, both of equally important.

I think Radford knows he needs help and our attack needs to improve and this is a massive step forward for him to admit this.

Plus Gaz Ellis will be back in a coaching role after next season

Also means that Andy Last our ranks Purtill? Hmm. If Radders does end up getting the boot at some point, Purtill will likely become our new head coach, unless we have a shot at a top up and coming coach from the NRL.

Bringing in Star players will only take us up from say 6th to 4th
The rest is the Coaching
Errors , discipline , missed tackles and record defeats are all down to the coaching
These things do not change unless a coaching change is made
Let’s hope for C sake that KP is the catalyst