Agar confirmed as the new Wakey coach on their official website. No surprise there but at lest its official now

www.newsnow.co.uk/A/518494779?-4338

www.newsnow.co.uk/A/518494779?-4338

OK laugh while you can you are about to see a reborn Agar come this time next year you will be wishing he was back. P.S when you all visit us don't take the p__s.

Agar has done an excellent job whilst at Hull, successfully coaching the team to a Challenge Cup final and a Grand Final, Hull being the only club other than Leeds Rhinos, Saint Helens, Wigan and Bradford to make it to the Grand Final. During his tenure at FC, Richard has built a very strong squad and has proven his ability to develop young players into established Super League players.



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Is that the first time Agar has got anything right?.He said he would have another job before the weekend.


All the best Rich on your new employment.

Murdock must have written the press release

take a look at the press release on the wakey website - some belting bits about agar on there giving youth a chance and being highly successful

agar joining a competitor is the icing on the cake

Kath Hetherington next.

Salford will be happy to hear about Jordan Turner too

Shouldn't this be on the Wakey board ?

I wanted him at Rovers.

He's still our coach, so no

Technically, the press release from Wakefield isn't incorrect. But it has more spin than a Shane Warne leg break.

More than Superman going through the pavement to Lex Luther's hideout

Seems for all the people slating the Hull fans for hounding him out and not being given a chance by Pearson etc it looks as though he may have been tipped off by someone about a takeover and taken a 3 year deal elsewhere.

Good luck to him, nice bloke just didnt work out for him here as Head Coach.

Those people are idiots. The Hull fans expressed their dissatisfaction with Agar's inept performance over his entire tenure, which they had every right to do. As far as I'm aware, no one went round to his house and threw eggs at his window or posted nasty letters through his door. In this last season, many fans decided to vote with their feet in order to try and bring about a change in the board's/owner's attitude to the head coach position. This is hardly 'hounding' a person out.

And what was Pearson to do exactly? He had invested in a club which had already seen a significant drop in gates. If he'd have kept Agar in post for next year, it is almost certain that gates would have dropped still further and he'd have started losing money. Any businessman has to protect his investment over and above noble notions like 'giving someone a chance'.

I'd say the list of players whose career he supposedly launched was incorrect. The assertion that he had a 'successful' spell at Hull is also fairly wide of the mark.

Utterly bemused as to how Agar has managed to get another coaching job in SL even if it is only Wakey.



Still hes gone now and good fooking riddance!

I thought I read that he used to played with Wakey chief exec James Elston so they are mates. It sounded plausible as its the only way I could think he could get another SL head coach job. I wonder if he will see the three years out.

Think the time is right or even overdue for change for us but all the same I'd still like to wish him luck.

Good luck to him in his future career.

I suppose there's always the chance that he could be a Roy Hodgson type character: nice bloke, does ok at a small club with limited resources, but can't cut the mustard at a big club. He might just get Wakey to consistently be challenging for 8th spot, which, given the problems they've had of late, would be a big achievement for them.

He will take them higher up the table then they are now, instant success

Hi Richard