talking of coaches,since the great team of the early eighties broke up and bunting left,no coach has managed to give hull a really successful team.the only coaches to win a major trophy with hull in the last 30 years have been noel cleal and john kear.neither can be described as top class.i think the best coach we have had in that time was brian smith.lets hope if agar goes,we can recruit a winner this time.

well thats what we are hoping for but knowing our board welcome karl harrison

Brian Smith knew the limits of his team. They weren't the best players - but in Craig Coleman he had someone on the field to execute his gameplan. He got the team around the park. I don't see anyone in Hull's current team that is capable of this.

Brian Smith managed to get a team of very ordinary average players and gell them into a very good side, by playing for each other, playing as a team with real steel and determination, that is the mark of a very good coach, anyone can coach a team of superstars.

don't forget royce simmons great coach but got booted out!

Big respect to him for what he did for the club in fundraising.

Shame Saints aint keen on him

whats brian smith upto these days? worth gettin him in to replace agar???

Phil Sigsworth did a good job whilst at the club, seemed to leave the club surrounded by mystery and rumour though. Would have been interesting to have seen how far he'd have got the club if he'd stayed longer.

i thought phil sigs worth was treated shabbily by hull.he went when the david lloyd,tim wilby combination arrived.good coach.

Spot on mate, that was awful and it was the start of the dark days that we will hopefully never see again.

Brian Smith also nearly bankrupt the club, and cleared off when it suited him.

Ah that one

what do you mean by that, I am not saying he didn't do well for FC, he did, but he was in it for one thing, himself.

I think a selfish coach determined to further their own career might be just what we need now!

Don,t forget in the Bunting era we had a board that backed the coach with cash, seemingly we were buying a player everyweek at one time, and of course we had to repay those heady days finishing up selling our best players and a bankrupt club.

Agree,

Its such a shame that the team Smith built was decimated, we were so close, the semi in 92 could have been that start....

I don't think we could afford to keep them, especially when a certain prop started telling young players to ask for more money.

To be fair we did have the GB front row, now that would be worth £25 a game these days!

Oh I'm not disputing the quality of the player, but you have to wonder how much damage was being done by his antics in the dressing room.

Over the years there have been a lot of things wrong at FC!
AND a lot of things that are spot on too

Which one?

PM if you need to

And a lot of people pretending to be ex pros

Me too???

K H.

Its not always the coaches fault, its hard to box with one or both hands tied