Please do enlighten me.

You could have that if you don't mind being in Championship One.



For my part I want to watch a successful team and I don't care whether the players and coaching staff come from Hull, Grimsby, Wigan, Australia or Mars.



The club will always have some local lads involved on the playing and coaching side but it can still be true to its roots and part of the community if it has outsiders and dare I say it foreigners too.

enlightening you would take most of the rest of my life, or it would seem so.

Difference is that all of the 3 you mentioned served much longer coaching "apprenticeships". McDermott also worked at a smaller club as head coach before taking over the reins at leeds and all 3 inherited much, much better squads than radford has. i hope he proves me wrong but I just can't see him hacking it and think pearson may bin him before the season ends

Why is it that you come on here and constantly put people down and make assumptions against them.

You accuse some Hull people of being insular and this comes from someone who refuses to type the word Leeds! Double standards Standee.

If you can't respect people thoughts and what they type then I suggest you just ignore their comment. If you have nothing but insults to post then just don't bother replying to the thread.

you need to learn the meaning of the phrase "double standards" it appears.

Is that all you have to come back with? LOL

anyway, I guess we'll see about Radford in a few games time.



(I'll leave the residents of Royston Vasey to play their banjo's)

Funny you mention Royston Vasey because The League Of Gentlemen was partly written by and starred a Hull born actor.

Back on topic and an article in the Mail: www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html Got to say it sounds very similar to what we've heard before regarding the training. The big question for me is why do the players seem to train well but then not perform on the pitch? Let's hope Radders has the answer... and can put it into practice!

Back on topic and an article in the Mail: www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html Got to say it sounds very similar to what we've heard before regarding the training. The big question for me is why do the players seem to train well but then not perform on the pitch? Let's hope Radders has the answer... and can put it into practice!

I have to agree with Rock God (I think it was him) a while back, and say that I don't understand why some seem to have lower aims for Radford to perform acceptably than would likely have been the targets for Gentle. I reckon most would have expected Gentle to improve on 6th, yet Radford seems to be being let off with 'if we make the 8 he'll have done well'. This exact thinking was what Pearson told us was to be a thing of the past.



Despite the number of player changes, I really don't see that much difference in quality to last year's squad, nor have many other sides from below us improved much on paper (only Salford, IMO).



O'Meley, Lynch, Johnson - Paea, Carvell, Paleaaesina

Tickle & Galea (who were both pretty poor last year) - Tuson & Thompson

Holdsworth - Rankin

Briscoe - Talanoa



Biggs is a potential bonus.



The only one of those that is likely to be a real downgrade is Talanoa for Briscoe, and just really don't see a winger (no matter how good) being the key to our decline.



Our aim should be to maintain top 6. Below 7th and we've gone backwards.

Got to say that I agree with this a lot. We seem to have done a good job replacing most of the outgoing players with players that should be just as good or (hopefully) better.