Just a quick question to see if any of you would have Kear back in a heart beat instead of Agar.

No.

No.

Sorry supposed to be have him back.



I would but he's already coach of my team and would like him to stay.

100% no

No.



Got us up for the Cup games but our league form was poor and the least said about his Brough/Faumuina cock up the better.

NO

No thanks.

I'm happy with Agar in charge and would be upset if he were sacked. However, Kears appointment would soften the blow.

As Head Coach or Team Manager? - an unequivocal [size=200NO![/size



As an assistant to a proper coach? - In a heartbeat [size=200YES[/size



John Kear's single biggest failing is not accepting what his role in this game is.



He understands the game better than most people I have ever been in contact with. His attention to detail is second to none, when it comes to identifying a player's strengths & weaknesses. When Bomber brought him here, the first thing he did was hand each our our 1st team squad a dossier detailing which foot they usually stepped from (in a given situation) and other details that even our coaching staff and the players themselves were not aware of.



He is, without doubt, one of the best technical coaches in the game.



What he is not, is a manager, in as much as he cannot manage a full team of players.



When Kear does retire from the game, I have no doubt he will write a book. I will be in the front of the queue to buy that book because it will become a best-seller and should be a bible for any potential future coaches.

Very well put

I first encountered John Kear when I was reffing Alliance and he'd just got the gig as 'A' team coach at Cas. It was a Friday night at Headingley, Leeds were on top of everything and Cas were buggering around as usual.



John came into my dressing room to clarify a couple of points:



The first was that he'd noticed the Leeds full back usually trapped the ball with his foot before picking it up and he wanted me to clarify the offside rule on a "downtown" call. I did and Cas hammered Leeds all night for it.



The second was a little more complicated. Now bear in mind that at this time a square marker could strike for the ball (the tackled player had to place or drop the ball in front of his foremost foot and play it, in any direction, with his feet), it was what was known as a loose ruck. Kear asked me what decision I would give if: on the 5th tackle, a Cas player placed the ball on the floor, played it forward and the Leeds acting-half picked it up. My reply was, "penalty to Cas, Leeds player handling in the ruck".



That's all he wanted to hear. He'd studied the Laws of the Game and looked for what they didn't say, rather than what they did.



Unfortunately, we don't have too many people, involved in the game, who are capable of such lateral thought.



I once told Bomber that Kear was his best ever signing.



I think John just got too ambitious