isnt todays news enough for now

from an outside point of view i thought your board would see the season out with agar, whilst trying to find a top coach your support deserves for next season and on. your board has made some good signings, you have a top class stadium with the support to go with it, but the facts are most of the top clubs have overseas coaches and it has been proven that the british coaches ie the likes of cullen, mcdermott, lowes, karl harrison just don't seem to be able to cut it along with agar, it's early days for us at wigan but we seem to be vastly improving under mcguire and it seemed the logical step for you guys to follow suit.

New 1 year extension for Radford....

The difference being,the Wigan board seem to want to win things.

Don`t be daft, Thorman`s coming back being piggy backed by Hutch.

that really would take the pee, you can count on 1 hand how many good games he's had for us, and he's getting older and even slower as well

I dont think Kath n Rule are to bothered about silverware.
They know that enough fans are coming through the gates to fund their cushy jobs whilst reducing the debt

That may have something to do with he has won fook all in rugby league just a thought ...and thats before we go onto everything else like bench rotation etc

Like everyone else I'm stunned & depressed by the news. Saw the rumour on the forum last night and assumed it was a joke. Turns out its true, god help us.

Like many on here, I can't see what he has done to warrant the extension, particularly at this stage of the season. If it all goes badly wrong in the next 4 games we've backed ourselves into a very tight corner.

Just for the record, I would like to repeat what I've been saying repeatedly in the past. Richard Agar is not & will not ever be a grade A coach and for as long as he is in charge we will continue to languish in mid table mediocrity, underachieving and watching the rest go by. We may well finish 6th this year and have a decent cup run, but Richard Agar is not the man to take us up to the next level no matter how many years he has in charge.

If I'm proven wrong then feel free to ram these comments back down my throat, but I will be amazed if that situation comes to pass. I will continue to support the team I have followed for well over 30 years (starting at the den of the enemy tomorrow) but it is support with a heavy cloud hanging over it.

We have just commited ourselves to a further 2 years of going round in circles and if Richard Agar somehow manages to see out his contract we will be no further on in our development than where we are now. To the folk out there who say he should be given time to prove himself, fine lets do that and I'll bet you any money we will still be having this argument once more in 2012 as the club ponders whether to grant him yet another 2 year contract after those tremendous seasons where we climbed to the dizzy heights of 7th and that never to be forgotten Challenge Cup run all the way to the quarter finals.

Like I said, I'm prepared to nail my colours to the mast right now and say Richard Agar will not & cannot ever lead us to the promised land. And I didn't need another 2 frustrating years of watching opportunities slip by to tell me that.

What has Nathan Brown won? What has Michael McGuire won? As for bench rotation, come on then if you're such an expert, why has his bench rotation been so bad? I'd say it's improved tenfold this year so far.

I dont agree that we are a different team, and I dont that it is the results themselves against Salford and Crusaders that are the most worrying, it is that we looked the same old side with no creativity, only play up the middle apart from the odd predictable use of the fullback as an extra pivot play, with no plan B at all when the pack is out muscled, our wingers dont touch the ball despite that been blamed last season on not having a halfback, what is the excuse now, add that to Agars embaressing favouritism towards certain players.

Im sure we will finish in a higher position this season, simply becuase we seem to be able to grind out results at home because our pack is better then last term, but the timing of the extension and the two years is simply laughable, people call it a knee jerk reaction when the coaches head is called for, but the only reason I can see him given an extension is the Saints result, when you consider that there is no evidence to suggest we can repeat that performance even with the improved playing squad, and the previous two years of dross under Agar it seems a hell of a knee jerk reaction and way to early to even consider giving him a one year extension.

I have been of that opinion for a while now. In the short to medium term there is almost no chance that we would lose our franchise as there are too many factors in our favour for that to happen. So relegation is a non starter and the income coming into the club is a nice steady little earner. Like you I don't think the board are all that bothered whether any silverware turns up or not, it just simply isn't on their agenda, hence the retention of our cheap grade B coach.

WTF? Do you have money issues or something? You would be awesome with a good coach!

I echo every word of that

Our attack is the 4th best at the moment - we average around 25 points a game despite having pathetically failed to use the Salford/Crusaders games to bump that up. We are not great and there is room for much improvement, but not as bad as you make out as the facts themselves show.

Nope....made a profit for 5th yr....record pass sales,merchandise a million a year and a board that cant see the fact our coach is a totally out of his depth....welcome to HULL FC...NO FOOKING AMBITION.

I wonder if anyone will get "in Jim Lads Face" on Monday?

I'd say your board has lots of ambition to make lots of money, something thev've been very successful at despite poor seasons on the pitch in the last couple of years. whilst your gates increase every year and the money keeps rolling in they look at it as doing a very good job, and to be honest as long as the crowds do keep increasing why would they do anything different?

What makes you think James Rule made the decision to extend his contract?

I've no idea if it was James, Kath or whoever, it's done, it will cost some sponsors, we may get some new ones, who knows.

Interested to know who the assistant will be beyond 2010, but I guess that will come in time as well.

Interested to know who the club retain, who they bring in, and if they will make the hard decision if the season, or next, is an abject failiure.

One thing is for certain, the club will outlast the next fifty coaches, chief execs, we'll all be in our box before FC ceases to exist.

we offered him £25000 more than Wigan

I don't want to get involved with this but they did'nt! Thats misleading!

We offered more for Long than Wigan. Even Long admitted in an a newspaper article.

Going off topic here, but in his book Long says Hull offered "...the best package by far".

Anyway Agar - he seems very popular with the players. It's their chance to prove it tomorrow.

Absolutely speechless at this decision.

Since Agar took over Sharp's position, we have not seen one iota of any improvement from the team's performances.

The board must be watching a different game, from what I see.

We had Brian Smith, who didnt sign international class players, and he transformed players like Karl Harrison, Lee Jackson,Paul Eastwood into international players,we had a side that had a great team ethic.

We should be challenging Leeds and St Helens, but the only two teams who are challenging them IMHO, are Wigan and Huddersfield.- we are way behind Wigan and Huddersfield.

We play as individuals, not as a team.

Many people bought a season pass and thought, we would play a better attractive style,with the new players especially Long.

We are close to the cap now, Agar will have little room to manoeuvre in the off season

Very interesting in the close season, how the season passes will sell.

A very sad day, and a contract extension, that is beyond comprehension.