He will be 59 when he arrives in Kingdom of Hull

Does he have the music left in him ?
Is this one role too far or a beautiful swan song ?

For me we need 2 great Australian Assistants
and a massive back room staff of S & C and
Physio

I like the appointment and wish the whole Club
The very best with all of this.

and a new team.

6pm announcement from the club?

He needs to operate the FIFO model of management. Fit in or Feck off

Welcome, John and good luck.

Interview:

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He comes across as someone who doesn't mess about, talking about getting the squad extremely fit and hungry is what's needed, sounds like the players are in for a hell of a pre season

talk is cheap as they say but its a good first interview imo.

Very impressive first interview. Loving his talk on fitness, hunger and enjoyment. Think it's probably fair to say that the club is missing all three at the moment. Very impressed on his talk regarding culture too. Sounds the ultimate professional.

This appointment has got me excited. Now let’s hope we can get some signings, that he has a hand in, into the club. Like others have said, we need a big push in the quality of the s&c and physio staff and I hope he appoints some quality assistants too.

Massive tick in the box for Myler on this one. On paper, after missing out on Rowley, Cartwright looks to be pretty much the best we could have done.
Up to the club now to make sure he has the staff and resources around him to do what he needs to do.
Great bit of news in my opinion.

"fit and hungry" the sort of thing we want to hear, rather than uncle Tony's take it easy and hope they peak in August approach

58 going on 59 and his only head coach appointment which was a long time ago ended in the wooden spoon.

What happened to the preference for an English coach or at least someone with experience of Super League? But of course that was last week's policy!

He's old enough to remember your last trophy win. He'll have just left school.

A good appointment from my perspective, and one that I hope finally works out. We need a strong Hull FC in the sport.

Key word is [ipreference[/i. That's not a guarantee.

They're squirming already

The best return of serve this year

Had to chuckle to myself, what a kick in the cobblers reply.

No Rovers have won the Clive Sullivan trophy every year for ages now and the power board will not stop until the ultimate reward inevitably arrives.

But I was talking about Hull FC and yet another terrible appointment. I warned you about Smith you wouldn't listen now I am warning you about Cartwright,

He has 'assistant' written all over him.

off clown

I’m probably a bit bitter on missing out on Rowley but if you had the choice between somebody who’s got Salford overachieving or somebody who’s been assistant at some very successful clubs + NSW and previously done well with a newly formed club surely you’d want the latter?

Nervous?

I am warning you this has Small club mentality written all over it, we won the Steve prescott trophy last year against the then world champions but its not a major trophy (no disrespect intended to Steve Prescott, Clive Sullivan et al) so we didn't really bother other than the 2 competition points. But I suppose if you haven't won anything for coming on 4 decades you'd cling to any little thing I guess.

You had your pants pulled down there Bob and your comeback attempt makes it even funnier

Poor Bob. Still hurting from Saturday.

And the last 2000+ Saturdays tbf