I agree with the above and would also take Brian Smith over Radford all day long.
Long term though I'd like Paul Rowley or even James Lowes who after struggling at SL level initially seems to have gone away and learnt his trade unlike some.

Powell
T Smith
N Brown
B Smith
S Folkes
R Stone
T Sheens
A Griffin
J Morgan
M Potter

Pearson can't understand why after four years of investment he is seeing no return. His wage bill has risen yet we are going backwards...
It dosnt take a NASA scientist to work it out. This week should of opened his eyes to what a decent coach can do with a hopeless team, never mind one that has the quality we have.
Wake up Adam please

If AP under stood the sport he is in, which he should by now after 4 years, he would have seen what a decent coach can do by looking to Castleford. I personallly would love Powell, but he is an intelligent man so I really don't think he would come. Unless of course he was ambitious enough to realise that he could be a real hero to the faithful if he could turn things around.
But given the situation with the acdemy and a coaching set up that imho needs root and branch clearance with few exceptions. A scouting system that appears to be failing. I only say failing as we have raised the white flag in relation to talent in the past week. Does he really want that much work?

I'd suspect that the Wire job will be available soon if he sits pretty along with a role with England. Or he may want to try his hand in the NRL. I don't see a head coach role but one where he can go and add to his experience and knowledge. The world is Powell's oyster and I don't see us as an attraction currently.

I want him

Why would Powell leave a much better club like Cas Tigers for Hull FC ?

Payrise?

You would have to pay out quite a lot. He has a contract with us until 2019.

It's a fair point, why would Powell leave Cas, the only think would be potential, there is certainly potential to make Hull a team that challenges each season, I don't think it is possible with Cas (Which isn't there fault, but due to the size of the town they are from).

If I was Powell I'd stay at Cas, as he has a safe job there for the next few years, I would doubt we would be able to afford to buy him out of his contract now, as it's cleat Pearson is tightening his purse strings (And I can't really blame him)

I'd go for Tony Smith, proven success (although not really this year, as they are going through a transition) and I reckon tha Warrington might release him.

Can't understand why Pearson is so blinkered over Radford. As Wilf states in his diary we could end up right in the **** if we end up in the Championship. I know it sounds pessimistic but we have such an attitude about how it's almost our right to be a winning team that we could end up struggling in the mid 8s.

I can't help but feel FC's attitude and approach to games seems to be along the lines of trying to match their opponents rather than impose themselves on them. It's one thing us trying to raise our game against the likes of Saints and Wigan but then we play someone further down the table and just do the same thing. I fear that if we do end up in the middle 8s that we will continue in this way and could find ourselves struggling. As Wilf pointed out in the Diary someone said:



It's true and we only have ourselves to blame.

Great coach now lets see how he improves Ben Crooks next season because he no doubt will

Either of the Smith brothers for me but think Brian would jump at the chance to return
We need experience not a guy who is treading water and taking the club backwards since he was appointed

So he's a better coach than the one Crooks had in Australia presumably?

Different kettle of fish. NRL often shows the level of some players (and most of SL would struggle in NRL), but I feel like out of anyone in SL, Powell will be able to get the best out of him. Particularly as he has so many ties to the club (his dad was Cas captain, hometown, etc) - it'll be a refreshing change for him.

Anthony Griffin ... To replace our Peter Griffin .

Saved me the time writing this.
The transfer fee we get from Lineham, should be used to try to buy out Powell's contract.
We have paid transfer fees for players and it hasn't gone tremendously well, this time we need to pay for a good coach.
Also let him look at the coaching system from top to bottom and implement what changes he feels he needs to turn this sinking ship around.

Agree with this. We can't just keep replacing the head coach and reshuffling the backroom staff around (i.e. Last). If and when the next coach comes in they should be allowed to decide who stays and who goes.

bring back arther

I said last season Saints should go for Rowley. Not saying Cunningham done a bad job but with Leigh the 'coaching' really stands out a mile.

Would take Brian smith in a heartbeat at the moment.

We won't get powell as much as I would love him to come. He'll end up at one of wire, wigan, leeds or saints in the next 18 months. For me it has to be an experienced aussie coach to come in not knowing anyone and implement the changes the club needs in order to progress

The first thing this club needs is for Pearson to sell up and we get an owner whom isn't a clueless bi-polar paranoid megalomaniac. The new owner can then sack Radford as clearly AP isn't going to, I'm sure Radford must have something on him as there's really no logical reason to keep him on.

Then I'd get Clive Woodward on board and only after he'd spent time analysing all the shiate at the club from top to bottom consider what coach we should get plus other professionals from whichever sport, not just RL.
I'd also downgrade all the current directors, they are yet another aspect of the club that is on the cheap, with next to zero experience outside the club, aren't particularly qualified and quantifying them as 'directors' is an insult to fans intelligence.

Oh and Powell isn't going anywhere even IF we waved a shed load of money at him which AP won't.

Quite honestly re appointing Richard Agar would be an ambitious long term appointment compared to Radford, why Adam Pearson is so blinkered I'm not sure, even more baffling is why he was so ruthless with Gentle.

Although not ideal even if we could only afford to appoint Horne it would be such a forward thinking move compared to what we have now, I'm sure he wouldn't purposely try to force out the best young players at the club and maybe even give a few a bit more game time, and I'm sure the attacking players will be able to play with more freedom, the senior members of the squad would maybe have to step up and help out, but apparently they did this when we played our only bit of decent rugby while Radford has been in charge.

Anyone who says they wouldn't take Brian Smith simply deserves to watch the dross being served up now, but I expect he'd be out of our price range.

This. some daft posts on here.

I still think Agar is worst than Radford.