Add in his mate, from Hull RU,as D.O.R.

Well it was all just a cruel rumour and hes going no where just like our club

Why misguided?
How do you think 12k inside the KC would compare to the same number inside the Boulevard?
Do you remember the days when Schofield would not play for Leeds down the 3d stand side ?
Craven Park is an RL ground with a terracing down one side that can create an atmosphere. The KC is a too nice Football stadium .
When the Club moved to the KC loud , loyal vocal support was lost. Much like when communities were lost when Councils split them across Cities to different locations .
Players will feed off support, look how vocal our noisy neighbours will be on Thursday if they get their noses ahead !!
The team need to perform obviously, but our fans at the KC are quiet at best . Maybe this is to do with losing an identity with the local community when leaving the Boulevard?
We need a home to call our own engrained deep into the local community , not a shared Football Stadium which is out of bounds unless on match day !! Some community stadium !!

We will find out tomorrow 100% what has happened. I personally believe he hasn't but I hope he has.

radford believes he's doing a good job and any problems are not of his making. No chance he will walk

He will only walk if/when Pearson issues severance pay.

HFC boy. Whilst agreeing with most of your post and the respective atmosphere's created at our different stadiums, you then state how noisy Rovers fans will be on Thursday....this will be at the KC so invalidates your point about the KC stadium being to nice and fans being quiet. If a derby can't enthuse your fans to make a bit of noise then I'm afraid your games should be switched to a library

Im sorry to depress you all,but have just heard "from the horses mouth" so to speak that their is no chance of radford walking and unless pearson can get wayne bennett on £6/50 an hour he is here for the forseeable future.Oh dear !

If Radford walks or is pushed what are you all hoping/expecting to happen?

The player pool isnt massive, its hard to make big changes in a short space of time as every other club wants the better players to.
What top coach is available right now who could change the way you play/train?
Tough times at Hull with no light at the end of the tunnel for the foreseeable future IMO

what a load of feces!

No worries, it's what we all knew already, really.

As you were, chaps. It's Agar Time, again.

It's cup final week for you lot Zoddy, are you excited?

Is that a dig at Rovers for being our smaller inferior and jealous neighbours?

Just wondered as obviously they performed better than us last season and so far are again. They also have a team littered with pace and a far superior attack and all this from a new coach and virtual new team.

All posts like these do is show how short sighted some of our fans are.
Our club is fast becoming the 2nd team in this city regardless of support base due to how poorly we are being governed and how shockingly poor our coaching team is and recruitment has been.

My point is an atmosphere can be created . Just Hull FC fans are not good at creating one at the KC . The support at Cas was as it should be . The Black and White clan at away games are massed together.
At the KC they are spread around the Stadium . It takes for Hull FC to take the lead at the KC before most fans stop moaning , and start supporting!!
The KC could , and should be able to create an atmosphere. In reality it doesn't .
At home we need to up our game , on and off the pitch !!

The difference between the atmosphere at rovers ground to the kc is chalk and cheese,the numbers that turn up are irrelevant.I dont know if you are old enough to remember the threepenny stand at the boulevard,but that created an intimidating atmosphere which was worth points start to us,compared to that the KC is a morgue.It will be a cup final for both teams thursday and the atmosphere will be electric and it is hoped its close,as i fear if we fall behind our vocal support will diminish,as will our crowd,and silly comments like yours say it all.

The boulevard could equally be as eeiry on game day too on occasions.
It has nothing to do with Hull FC fans being bad at creating an atmosphere and sounds like a cop out. For me the team need to perform on the pitch to then ignite the crowd.
It is a spectator sport after all and supposedly meant to be entertaining.
And as for being spread out. I'd prefer not to be sat near some of the morons who shout abuse or foul language just because they sing.
I go to rugby as a social occasion to watch my team hopefully enjoy the game and leave on a high win lose or draw because we've actually played well.
So please dismount from that rather tall horse you're on.

Your right Chris Chester goes from not having a clue to coaching genius from week to week your only as good as your last performance

Craven park was bouncing on Friday but we were playing well and it was exciting. As loud as it was on Friday it's been equally as morgue like during the last couple of years under sandercock . Atmosphere is directly proportionate to the spectacle being created. Your lot were pretty vocal at last year's derby when as eerlee put it you won your cup final...

I do reckon a ground like cp is more intimidating as the crowds closer, changing rooms less inviting etc but this has nothing to do with the crowd.

A good sensible post. Players perform and the crowds respond.

The size of the KC and it being an all-seater doesn't help matters obviously, but we have had good atmospheres at the KC in the past. The problem these days is fans morale is about as low as it can go, and many are going out of sheer loyalty rather than because they enjoy it. There have also been far too many times over the last 7 years where the team have simply not showed up, or farcically fallen apart (such as Leeds the other week) which deflates the atmosphere.

I think the lack of atmosphere at the moment is due to nervousness and fear about how the team are going to perform, fans don't want to start goading the opposition when you're not sure if the team will go to sleep and concede 43 unanswered points in the 2nd half. I imagine on Thursday the home fans will be subdued and quiet unless we take a decent lead, whereas in years gone by the anti-Rovers songs would have been in full force well before kick-off.

Agree with this point

Further to this, against Catalans we scored 4 trys including just before half time and the mood was positive, then we conceded a farcical try on the hooter and the whole mood swung the other way, we were still 2 scores ahead but it was less 'oh no' and more 'not again'

Not that old chestnut about Threepenny. The atmosphere was significantly affected post Popplewell Inquiry. Even more so when the old stand was torn down.

We've often had a good atmosphere at the KC. As has been pointed out poor form and general malaise around the club are big factors in affecting it. Having reserved seating in the East doesn't help either.

We are not the only club who's supporters create a better atmosphere away from home than at home.

Because my lad was one of the mascots for the Catalan game. I sat in the west stand instead of south. I know Catalans is always terrible for atmosphere but its a shame the 20 odd lads that were trying to create an atmosphere in east corner couldn't get together with the few singers in the south corner. There's nowt worse than a half hearted one verse of old faithful. Not blaming those people at least they encourage the team and not wait all week just to have go at the ref, coach, players, stewards, bus routes etc etc

Good post, as I see it

So we have a thread that questions the ability of our coach but that drifts to the fact we have little atmosphere at home games.

First and foremost the romantic notion that the Boulevard was the most atmospheric stadium ever has to stop. Big matches yes. But not all of us stood in a wooden stand. In fact if you look at our attendances the majority didn't stand in a wooden stand. I can certainly remember days when there was less than 4000 there and it was like a library.
The atmosphere was generated by a feeling of confidence in those lucky enough to wear our famous kit. If we felt they were giving it their all for the cause then we responded. Even some of us who didn't stand in a wooden stand.

Moving back to Radford and co. We have steadily (some may say rapidly) declined since that big day in 2005 & the days when Sharpe took us on a magical road to Old Trafford. Our coaching set up since has been a joke. First Agar who simply carried on the decline. Assisted by local boys. Peter Gentle was brought in and some argue he was dire. I rather think he was setting us on the right track. 6th spot in the league and a cup final. Not too shabby.
But he was ousted for club Hull. Where has that got us? We have a coaching team now that has so little experience of the outside world. Radford may claim to know something, but he's been at the club for 8 years. Last knows very little away from HFC and Horne and Cooke (yes I include him as well as he is "developing" our dual reg players and involved in analysis) they are all Hull FC and lived through the years of decline.
The only glimmers of hope we have seen where with "outsiders" Sharp, Gentle and even Kear. Now ditched for club Hull where the personnel change but the predictable play, the apparent (at times) player power, the general dirge that we are now so used to never changes. It's time to wake up to the reasons why.
We need a complete clear out of the back room staff. This isn't Liverpools boot room of the 70s and 80s Its an inexperienced bunch of local lads who yes have the club at their heart, but they are not equipped to lead us forward.
Legends of other clubs move away to see how things operate elsewhere. Peacock (who may or may not succeed at Rovers) will bring in fresh eyes and ideas to their set up. He will learn his trade and one day end up either at Headingley or Odsal if not Red Hall. Francis Cummins do the same. Powell went round the houses before landing on his feet at Cas.
At Hull FC though I wouldn't be surprised to see Yeaman given an extension to his playing contract and a coaching deal.
It's narrow minded and doomed to failure. Until someone on the board recognises that we will be forever bottom 4 if not worse with us all just living in hope.

I've seen some on her and Twitter claim we are the most fickle fans in RL. 12000 last week says we are not. We'd have stopped attending matches long ago with the dross we have been served since 2006. We care probably more than most. Sadly though it is last chance saloon for the club and especiLly AP from here on in.