I'm sure he'll consult with whoever radford's replacement is before the friendlies come around again

He had one last week vs Wire

Wakefield's main aim was to honour an ex player well thought of at our club, financially after expenses we would have got nothing as the game was arranged as part of Ellis's testimonial, because we have quite a few new players' our coach took advantage of this game to sort out his new structures, by playing mainly reserve players maybe Radford's plans are more or less in place unless of course he's clueless.

Quote ="Structured"I would say more of an interference. Pearson is the owner, not the coach and he employs Radford as head coach and IMO he should be left to carry out ALL aspects of his employment. If he (LR) wishes to play a certain number of friendlies it is his prerogative, his job stays or falls by his decisions, he doesn't need interference from a guy,who by his own admission, doesn't know a great deal about our game. A few years ago there were innuendo's and allegations on this site that Hetherington was 'picking' the team or, at least, having a say who would or would not play due to contract 'bonus's', surely no one wants that situation to arise again. He (AP) ultimately makes the decision on Radford's job so surely he (LR) should be left to get on with it, his way, and without anyone else having an influence on anything concerning the coaching or playing side of things.'" Radford never wanted four anyway. He wanted two. Think we ended up being contractually obliged to do the York one, then giving Ellis a testimonial. So Pearson's just backing Radford's original wish. Great to see them aligned. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html

Quote ="Structured"I would say more of an interference. Pearson is the owner, not the coach and he employs Radford as head coach and IMO he should be left to carry out ALL aspects of his employment. If he (LR) wishes to play a certain number of friendlies it is his prerogative, his job stays or falls by his decisions, he doesn't need interference from a guy,who by his own admission, doesn't know a great deal about our game. A few years ago there were innuendo's and allegations on this site that Hetherington was 'picking' the team or, at least, having a say who would or would not play due to contract 'bonus's', surely no one wants that situation to arise again. He (AP) ultimately makes the decision on Radford's job so surely he (LR) should be left to get on with it, his way, and without anyone else having an influence on anything concerning the coaching or playing side of things.'" Radford never wanted four anyway. He wanted two. Think we ended up being contractually obliged to do the York one, then giving Ellis a testimonial. So Pearson's just backing Radford's original wish. Great to see them aligned. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html

On the original point, the downside of the proposal to have one friendly is only one game in five months. Compare to Wilf's stats about 41 games in a season in days gone by. I think the off season is too long and leads to people disengaging - you can be virtually half a year with no opportunity to see the first team. That's rubbish.

Friendlies are a waste of time and I do not do them, the season could do with a warmer upper and help teams to progress.

Bring back the county cups, cede the SL clubs to come in after round one 16 teams in each county get a decent backer, maybe play both finals in one place on the road if possible. The teams have to compete from day one and they have meaning and an extra cup to win, one older then the Challenge cup as well. An FC V KR meeting with a cup of merit at stake as purpose and would ignite fans more then "training sessions with species"

Quote ="Mrs Barista"Radford never wanted four anyway. He wanted two. Think we ended up being contractually obliged to do the York one, then giving Ellis a testimonial. So Pearson's just backing Radford's original wish. Great to see them aligned. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html'" IF Radford only wanted two games why not stay with the contractually obliged York game and tag on Ellis's testimonial with Wakefield. Not obliged to play either HKR or Doncaster then really ?

Quote ="Mrs Barista"Radford never wanted four anyway. He wanted two. Think we ended up being contractually obliged to do the York one, then giving Ellis a testimonial. So Pearson's just backing Radford's original wish. Great to see them aligned. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html'" IF Radford only wanted two games why not stay with the contractually obliged York game and tag on Ellis's testimonial with Wakefield. Not obliged to play either HKR or Doncaster then really ?

Really ?

Bloody hell. KR troll.

Quote ="Mrs Barista"Radford never wanted four anyway. He wanted two. Think we ended up being contractually obliged to do the York one, then giving Ellis a testimonial. So Pearson's just backing Radford's original wish. Great to see them aligned. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html'" Precisely. But too advanced intellectually for bumpy and bono. Unless of course they're not really FC fans.

Quote ="Mrs Barista"Radford never wanted four anyway. He wanted two. Think we ended up being contractually obliged to do the York one, then giving Ellis a testimonial. So Pearson's just backing Radford's original wish. Great to see them aligned. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html'" Precisely. But too advanced intellectually for bumpy and bono. Unless of course they're not really FC fans.

I think they were trying to get out of the York game. Obviously Ellis was awarded his testimonial in October after this interview in September.

Structured is a Rovers fan whose post profile evidences 62% negative comments about Hull FC on the Hull FC board. You'd think it'd be answering Rob Crossland's call for increased usage of Royston Vasey rather than posting repetitive sh1ite on here.

I haven't been to a friendly for years (decades), with the exception of one or two testimonials - for fans they really are pointless.

If you really want pointless, try this for size.......



Imagine AP announcing this.

Of course - it's just that there are local "faithful" who agree hook line and sinker with him on a regular basis. Just a punt - obviously.

Steve Michaels is playing for Doncaster on Sunday. Ooh.

I see you did a bit of analysis on this loon too Mrs. B. I ran a similar exercise and came to exactly the same conclusion. He has earned the right to be called a professional troller.

I agree with Pearson .

bumpy and bono.


They will be ejaculatory if we, god forbid, lose our first couple.

Me too . 2 friendlies is enough against SL opposition.

Not only did the first 17 NOT get 2 full games games together, the majority won't have had many minutes playing time in over 3 weeks before the Hudds game(the last meaningful game time being the first half of the rovers match). So whatever this 2 game plan was the timing and putting (the majority of the first 17) up against a 3rd tier team was a mistake.
But that is far too intellectually advanced for you to understand, which by definition makes you a dobbins fan..

Hi Bumpy

The problem with friendly's is that we as fans have different needs and expectations from then than the club do. Perhaps it isn't in the clubs best interest to show their hand too much before the real stuff starts. Perhaps if we chilled out and recognised them as the glorified training sessions they are then there will be less over emotional reaction to them. After all in Australia they have had full pre season competitions with rewards on offer yet the teams that do well in that don't necessarily go well in the season proper and vice versa. As for Hull's games I'm mystified by some of the teams selected with regards to consideration of the strength of the opposition but there may well be sound reasoning behind it. The only pre season game I do object to, and the only one I refused to go to (again) is the one against the dobbins. Other than as a money grubbing exercise I can't see any benefit at all to it but plenty of negatives. If you go all out to win then opportunities to test some players and combinations are lost. If it is treated as a trial and heaven forbid you lose on the scoreboard (even if it does provide useful information to the coaching staff) then there is a bad vibe around which puts some in a negative mood before the season has even started. For this and the other games Hull haven't helped themselves much with their promotion and build up to them, alternately hyping them up and then being secretive about the weakened teams that they knew were being put out. This more than anything has contributed to the understandable "pointless" tag for them. In the end perhaps we should just be thankful that serious injuries appear to have been avoided.

I don't know what the best formula for next year is though, other than the dobbins game needs binning.

Not going to happen, the club announced this season's Clive Sullivan Trophy game as a annual event going forward.

Hahaha, that's so atypical of someone with your intellectual level. You respond with childish emoticons because you have no answer & have zilch to come back to make a cogent arguement for Radford's actions.
Please explain why Radford continues to make the same mistakes as last year, why he can't even formulate a decent plan on how best to build up to a start of a season, the guy is a complete incompetent, he can't even fathom the basics of coaching...
Yeah if we win I;ll be delighted, but we are going absolutely no-where with Radford, he's got as many braincells as you which aint many..

Thread drifting again Mrs Barista and what's the saying when one needs to resort to swearing?
Negativity, of course is subjective. Many would call 96% of your own posts ( it's easy to pluck figures out the air) are happy, clappy optimistic one's, nothing wrong with that, you are after all preaching to the converted so to speak but maybe go easy on those fellow hull fans who views are more negative than your own so they are accused of being Rovers fans because they don't fit in with your own agenda.
I think answering Rob Crossland's call should fall upon fans using t'other board to be honest, be them HKR supporters or lurkers



Anyway back on thread, I'm sure AP will now ensure LR receives more specific advice on how many friendlies to play pre 2016.