So we have a two week break till we play the dragons, their forms poor and they have a difficult tie on Sunday away at the crusaders in the cup giving them a 6 day break.

I know it's been said before but this a must win game, without a win the top 8 will be a real struggle.

Berrigan, Calderwood and Lyne all out.

We need Horne, Long, Tickle, Fitzgibbon, Lauaki fit.

Hopefully we'll look something like

Tansey
Whiting
Turner
Yeaman
Briscoe
Horne
Long
O'Meley
Houghton
Cusack/Dowes
Tickle
Manu
Fitzgibbon

Radford
Moa
Lauaki
McShane

Think we'll win this one by default (they are gash, we have 2 weeks off) and people will be telling us how great agar is again now he has his key players back. Then reality will set in when we lose at cas

Could well be jake, I'd hope a good performance and win would boost our confidence going in to a few key games for our top 8 hopes.

To be honest don't even want to think about it, doesnt matter what team we put out if they don't have the motivation to win.

we are liable to pick some injuries up before then. Whatever side we put out i fear the worst with agar in charge.

I have no confidence about the Catalans game. You'd think at some point with their squad they will kick into gear (sounds familiar) and it could well be against us. All that travelling will be tough too



If Long, Fitz and Tickle are back we will be stronger on paper but then again they all played at Salford are we still looked crap.

Will lose this game, then Cas and beat easy by Saints, there will be talk about Agar getting sacked in the media, we will then play Salford, and despite being 16-0 up after 30 minutes, we will scrape a 16-12 win, Agar will talk up the importance of the win and he will live off that result for the next month.

Ohh, you cynic.

I thought Lauaki had torn his calf muscle? If so it's going to be a fair while out.
Nobody seems to know about Tickle, but hopefully Long and Fitz will be back and the 2 week break will allow players with little niggles to get themselves fully fit.

We should win, but i'm not too confident.

hdm said hull are hopeful they'll all be back, and Horne who started the game with a couples of injuries.

I know everyone hates agar, believe me im not the biggest fan in the world, but it wasnt him who tore luauki's calf in the first ten minutes and more to the point it wasnt him who was dropping balls, slinging out stupid passes, falling off tackles, and not supporting the play

Agar sets up the "gameplan" and that is being generous...the defence wasnt working or the attack so its his job to try and change it...instead he sits there with a look that says i arent botherd.....he isnt upto the job of coaching us or Fev u-5's........

Thats the thing that some people......no, most people on here cant get into their heads. If they are not prepared to single a few players out for critisism and give a valid reason for our losing games that we should have a 'divine right' to win, then its always gonna be Agar that the buck is gonna smash into, Its always Agar that is at fault! Well all I can say is there must be a lot of other idiots like me out there....And some of them actually put Rich Agar in poll position to take the 'poison chalice' that is the GB/England coaching job!
We are all a bit frustrated at losing 'easy' games (THERE AREN'T ANY EASY GAMES IN SL!!!!!) but it isn't...as Chet says...Agar that is doing the schoolboy errors on the pitch IS IT??? The team is picked on their training performance. The team is also picked on their fitness.......and that word seems to have been like a curse over our club for the last few years...Well since 2007 as far as I remember.
To sum up.....Rich Agar can only p!ss wish the tool he has, and at the moment it seems like he is trying to drill a hole with a pencil......Not his fault if the pencil is blunt on the day !!!! (think about it and be patient)

Cannot see us getting anything against the French. We look stale and unprepared.

I see your point, I think some of the players are getting away with the flak they deserve because of Agar, and many Hull fans think that if we get a new coach some of players will suddenly improve, wont miss tackles or drop balls.

However he has signed or choosen to keep and pick these players, for example playig players in the wrong position, playing injured players.

Signing Cusack was a shocking descion when we had Dowes and Radford signed on total waste of a quota spot which could have been used to sign halfback or back.

The players must be playing to his game plan, which for most of the season is 5 drives and kick, other teams throw the ball about, and when we do throw the ball about we can look quite good.

His use of subs annoy me, on Saturday things clearly wheren't working so bring Mcshane on, instead he leaves he off for the a long spell.

Our best player so far this season (apart form Manu) is playing on the wing and totally wasted, play him at 6, and Turner on the wing, if he doesnt like it, tough s**t drop him into the reserves.

Far too many basic errors week in week out as a coach, he clearly doesnt seem to learn from his errors.

I still cant believe he got a 2 year deal, or the back of nothing.

It has to be one of the worst decisions I have seen from a Hull board in the last 25 years.

I don`t hate him at all,he seems a decent bloke,just don`t want him as our coach.

Can you p.m. me next weeks lottery numbers whilst your at it?..................

I'll take your Richard Agar and raise you Len Casey.

Kear and Sharp sacked for a damn site less....Sharp had a worse injury situation and had to deal with Cooke legging it and he also sorted the dressing room out..........so why is Agar still in the job.

Kear had lost the dressing room and couldn't continue. Sharp had took our GF reaching squad and signed some very average players.. we were going backwards.

I know all that but they was sacked for less than Agar is serving up....at least Sharp sorted the defence out.

Agar inherited our worst squad for a while. No one can doubt that we've made a step forward this year, fans are clearly negative about the team and with good reason after the last couple of years. We beat Wakefield quite comfortably last week despite having numerous key players out, the same Wakefield (without Cooke) pushed a pretty much full strength Leeds all the way this weekend, does that make McClennan a bad coach? Rovers, after finishing fourth, are now getting hammered most weeks, is it the players or the coach?

Everyone asked for a closer super league and it's what we've got.

Good points. For me Agar falls down in his selection policy and his seeming inability to motivate players into performing the basics to a high standard. No coach would have coped well with the ridiculous injuries we have had and are still having, however that doesn't stop whatever team we put out going out and playing a simple structure error free like their lives depend on it. There have been too many Quins-game type performances where the basics are missing and players seem to think it OK to perform in a slipshod fashion. Agar says as much after each game yet we see it time and time again. That reflects poorly on him I'm afraid.

Nobody has a devine right to expect to win every game, (except maybe Saints fans

) but what we as fans do expect is a 100% commitment.Nothing more,nothing less.

Expecting a loss, the next game I can see us winning is Salford at the KC.