Why? Mods wont ban a 30k poster. it'd be in your interests if they did actually. he has more than you

Your obsession with post counts is funny.

And Standee has been banned. More than once.

Good post Standee, that why your on here all the time, using your experience !!!!!!

Bet he would suggest the Brewery Tap if you did

Rumour has it he made his fortune starring in the mr muscle ads

I said it at the time Agar was going and when we wanted Agar out. Brian Noble could have done a very good job for us, we won't get him now. I don't know who the answer is, I don't think AP does either but what he does need to do is rip this first team apart before it gets better. The only problem is people don't have the money to part with to go through another transitional period.

If Cooke steps foot in this club again though, that would be enough for me to chuck it altogether.

Can't believe Cooke is been linked back here ! . A decision that would'nt go down to well me thinks .

As for Smith & the USA , I'm fairly sure he's a big fan of American sports and has been heavily involved with NFL teams in the past so so coaching a league team is a no brainer . I don't think It will be to long before he's back in the NRL at the Eels .

In 1990/91, the season he left mid-season to become Coach at St George (his boyhood club), his last game in charge when we beat Leeds 34-14 at The Boulevard was ....

1. Richard Gay - Local
2. Paul Eastwood - Local, Smith turned him into a GB International
3. Rob Nolan - Local
4. Damien McGarry - bought by Smith, don't know fee
5. Brad Webb - bought by Smith, don't know fee
6. Greg Mackay - bought by Smith
7. Patrick Entat - bought by Smith
8. Karl Harrison - bought by Smith for c£60k
9. Lee Jackson - Local
10. Andy Dannatt - Local, Smith turned him into GB International
11. Ian Marlow - signed from Beverley RU
12. Russ Walker - Local
13. Jon Sharp - Local
14. Brian Blacker - bought by Smith from Salford
15. Mike Dixon - Local

We also had other players at the time Neil Turner (signed from Doncaster), Noel Cleal (Aus), Dean Busby (Local) and Gary Nolan (Local).

So hardly big money signings breaking the back.

The then good crowd of just over 7,500 along with the fact that only 3/4 years earlier we had sold Crooks & Schofield for World Record fees to Leeds to balance the books and we also had to spend monet on the ground (3d Stand) to comply with the post Bardford Fire (1985) recommendations, perhaps puts some perspective on our financial situation at the time.

Others may be party to other information.

For me, the 1990/91 season was one of my favourite (I started following Hull in 1975/76, so I've seen some great seasons and some poor ones too. This is not the worst by any means!!!). That season, we thrashed Wigan and Widnes (the top two teams) at home and were top of the league for the first half of the season. Cleal took over when Smith left and led the team to the Premiership v Widnes at Old Trafford.

Yes this was over 20 years ago, but Brian Smith above all a motivator. He turned Eastwood and Dannatt into very average players into GB Internationals (v Aussies).

Perhaps he didn't complete his contarct, but very few Coaches do.

If Gentle has gone, I'd take Smith back in an instant. Give him a two year contract and see where he takes us. To me this is much more appealing than an permuatation of Radford/Last/Cooke/McNamara. We are not awful, yes Hudderfield and Wembley were bad days, but the same team also beat Leeds and Warrington comfortably, so not everything is bad at the club. It may require more than a tweak, but it may not require a complete overhaul either.

Smith knows what the club is about and I think he would be as good a choice as any Coach we could get.

Good post , McNamara breaking through that squad also .

Well blinking said!!!!!!!!!

90/91 was my first year too

Don't mean to be pedantic but Walker and Sharp weren't local.

As Aretha Franklin once sang (nearly) ...


Who's grooming who?

I topped up my permaban while on holiday in Megaruf. And I have an ST postcode.

Top post mate here's to another Wembley way re union.

Some posters have said he cant get a gig in the NRL, he was offered a Director of Coaching at the Roosters, so he took a position as a defence coach in RU for the Brumbies instead.

Rumour is, he is in line for a return to the Eels.
Smith would set the foundations,for us to be contenders, then he could groom a coach to take over.