Jake the Peg wrote:Lose at Wigan and it's a full half a season of losses. Truly shocking. I'm not sure how long Pearson will(can) stick with Radford if we don't start winning soon.
Things can change very quickly, but right now it does feel Radford is maybe in the third act of his story as Hull’s coach. This is his sixth season, so it has not been a bad run. The longest tenure since Arthur Bunting’s.
A heavy defeat and I think fans’ patience would snap - threads like this show it is stretched thin. He could really do with you winning 2 of your next three, because 0 or 1 from 5, might also do for him.
I thought he was poor initially and, even allowing for him learning as he went and what came next, I stand by that.
I thought what he did next was hugely impressive, and even allowing for the contribution of Motu Tony’s recruitment efforts, a very good run on the injury front and what has come next, I stand by that too.
The planned next step, I think, was that you’d balance paying more to the players who’d won you the cup twice, by filling out the squad with some more of
that generation of academy graduates, who’d offer great value cover and with a few eventually becoming major contributors. They were never likely to match the most optimistic predictions, but as a group they’ve barely reached my much more modest expectations. As a result, recruitment has had to be about trying to find players a bit better than Jansin Turgut or Jack Logan, rather than replacing retired, departed or fading stars.
So there’s LR’s coaching obituary - you’ll probably go on a long winning streak now!
What’s his Win and Loss record overall now? Bit unfair, as being in the top 8s each season deprived him of games against the bottom teams that previous coach’s had. In SL he’s below .500 now, based on a quick tally I did.
Edit. He has his own page, doesn’t he?! With the two losses this season he’s 78-3-79 or .497. If Wikipedia is right.
