Time to stop messing about hiring inexperienced assistants and get a proper experienced head coach in.

this job was always too big for Radford, he should have gone to a smaller club to learn his trade first. With the lack of confidence we have, the poor style of play and in-balanced squad it always needed an experienced coach.

Pearson can't failed to have notice the small crowd today (the 10,200 announced was a complete joke, they must have counted all the passholders who didn't attend, all the sponsors on the sponsor list etc looked more like 8K to me) and he certainly can't have failed to have heard the loud boos and the end from the few fans who lasted until the final whistle.

we are now in relegation battle, and are very fortunate that London are so poor, and Bradford had 6 points deducted. We need to act now before the rot sets in.

after 6 games i agree

Just two weeks ago we had a long thread on here praising him and saying how he'd exceeded expectations.

then we realised how poorly Catalan had started, and how poor Bradford are and reality set in...

we have a coach who decided to play a half-back at full back, a hooker at half back, and when short of forwards leaves a 2nd rower unused on the bench. Complete chaos.

In fairness, Rankin has more career game time at 1 than 6 I think.

Why didn't he give Pitts a go on the bench instead of crooks

He has, but was a game in conditions like today's really the best time to change the fullback. Would have been better to have played Shaul there and then have Rankin on the bench instead of Crooks due to his bigger size and impact.

where are all the Radford brown nosers now..Pearson is going to be the death knell of this club despite the investments he's made, we needed to stick with Gentle for at least another year. But now we are in almost a worse situation than we are with Agar...

When the rumours first started circulating that Radford might be appointed, I thought it was a poor joke instigated by a mischievious Rovers supporter. When it actually came to pass, I was deeply concerned that we'd find ourselves in this very situation.

We had a few very poor performances under Gentle, most notablty Huddersfield and Wigan. We also had a 6th place finish, a play off win and a Challenge Cup final appearance. I'm not saying he was definitely the answer in the long term, but I'll be staggered if we manage to improve on Gentle's last season in charge this year.

Too early to be getting rid. 10-13 games in is a better time to look at how things are going.

But surely with Shaul and McDonnel already at the club, Rankin was recruited to play in the halves?

He did win the game he targeted against Rovers though

We play 6 of our next 7 games at home, and the away one is as close to home as it can get over at Craven Park. He can't survive playing that many home games so badly, nor can the club afford 6 games of having barely any walk-up fans paying.

I agree to early yet , the 4 games we have lost have all been by a handful of points . But I just hope we don't look back in a few months and realise the obvious thing was to get rid now . Who knows if Radford is capable of turning this round . We've known for years half backs are our downfall and still nothing as changed in that department . Horne and heremaia will not win us trophys .

you'd have thought so, but this is HullFC...the squad is so in-balanced we have loads of wingers on the books, but only one is any good (Lineham) one is on the way having never played RL before, Talanoa is ok as squad cover, Crookes is shocking, Colburn is the dictionary definition of 'average squad cover'....but none of this even matters because our ex-England International Centre can't pass



you can't make it up!

Too early to call for the coach's head but clearly if we are 9th/10th after 12 rounds with only five home games remaining (including Leeds, Saints and Wire) then it's time to hit the panic button.

Think that's a bit unfair on Talanoa, personally. He's currently deserving of his place, and was one of the better players today (although I realise that's not saying much).

I think that's why Cookie perfected the cut out pass..

What a total thread! People need to get a grip!
Wasn't great. Not impressed, but think coach was least impressed of any one! 6 games in when in most areas before today we've seen improvements( before today ) is just being stupid beyond words!!!

I do agree he is a decent player who tries hard, I was just meaning that we are spending a significant sum on wingers, but still haven't got 2 top class ones, and we still don't give them any decent service anyway. The squad building has been a joke under several coaches for years now.

and think, we're paying Biggs to play for someone else

What area's are those?

i've seen an improvement in effort and determination in most of the games, but that is about it.

defence has dropped massively, while we are as clueless in attack as ever & kicking game is still poor.

at best we are no better than we were under Agar or Gentle.

No chance of that. The same old cronies will be winging for a few hours yet.

Won't it be too late by then?

how do you get rid of the salty aftertaste?