Plenty looking for excuses for our new head coach to fail before a ball has been kicked in anger under his tenureship.

Come on chaps, let's rally round.

I do agree that those are important attributes for both roles but it is also important to remember that it's two different roles. Radford might find he can better express himself as Head Coach than when he was Captain.

Agreed. Let's at least give him the opportunity before the bullets start flying. If he fails then criticism is justified, until then he's entitled to our support.

I hope he does, nothing would please me more than for him to prove me and all the other doubters wrong.

I will wait and watch what is produced on the pitch over the coming season before I could say if Radders is up to the job. I hope he will and I am quietly confident that he will become a successful head coach at Hull. I have a theory which I hope becomes reality.



Radders is British, was a former work-horseman like forward respected by most, retired and became an assistant coach then after a short time became a head coach.

Brian McDermott, Paul Anderson and Shaun Wane are all of the above and have gone onto become very good head coaches. I remain confident that Radders will become McDermott, Anderson and Wane like. Come on Radders get the job done son.

You may be right and I hope you are but its surely far too early to describe him as "the perfect coach".

I like your optimism and I would hope for similar results to those guys but still can't help but think it is perhaps to soon for Radders. Anderson spent about six years as assistant at Huddersfield and Wane has been a coach at Wigan at some level or other for almost a decade before he reached the top job. McDermott is the closest case to Radders situation as he took over at the Broncos/Harlequins after only a couple of years of coaching and assisting.



Despite my doubts he gets my support as all coaches do and I am hoping for the best. But years of being an FC fan has taught me to expect the worst

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Easy to judge him now, wait until the end of the season. If you look at our squad on paper and compare it to the rest of the teams in the league, I'd say we're about 8th best. If he hits 8th or manages to finish higher - he'll have coached the side well as far as I'm concerned.



If you want to judge him on recruitment, then that is tricky. Not sure how much involvement the majority of coaches in SL have on recruitment, but I'd suspect Radford had nothing to do with any of the non locals signings so far, possibly Carvell aside.



As for berating him for being a quiet captain, Ellis is by his own admission, even quieter! Also, I don't think any successful coach in Super League was particularly vocal on the pitch. Nat Brown, Anderson and Wane didn't seem vocal, although I have no idea about Tony Smith.

I'm struggling with why his nationality matters??

Some people seem to dislike players or coaches who aren't British or indeed who are British but not "lerkle".

If we finish 8th I wouldnt say he'd coached well.Peter Gentle managed a top six finish in his first season and lets not forget the club is in a more stable position now than it was in 2012.

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Because it shows that you don't need to import an Aussie coach to get success at a club. Ask Wigan and Mr Wane.



I made the point of Radders being British in the hope that he can emulate the other three Brit coaches that I mentioned in my post.



Anyway, never mind British because Radders is a Hull lad and will get my full support for the coming season.

In an ideal world Hull Fc would post a full team from 1 to 17 of lerkle lads led by a lerkle coach. I'm still greatful though for seeing Kemble, O'Hara, Sterling and Smith to name a few of outstanding imports that have worn the famous shirt.

The insular attitudes of some Hull people go a long way toward explaining the cities problems.