Wouldn’t have thought he’d get a gig in Australia least with Cronulla

I'm having a little chuckle at the Bumpsters empathy for Brian Mc's.
If we were currently nosediving towards the bottom four he'd be having a cardiac over Radfords incompetence.

Bumpy takes some flack on here, some deservedly so. However, this is thread derailment and does not help at all.



FWIW - I think McDermott rode his luck in the early years but his credentials were very much enhanced by winning the GF last year, the year after being bottom 4.


Would be interested to know how much Hetherington was "persuaded" to pull the trigger by the owners.

What's derailing about it?
It's true.

It was a comment about another their poster rather than McDermott.

These forums are of a low standard since it became tit for tat sqabbling.

OT, BmD had a decent run. Not many will be in charge for 8 years. With him and Wane going, does this mean Radford will be the longest serving incumbent?

Wonder what the average tenure of a coach is in the SL era compared to BITD.
Hull's greatest ever coach, Roy Francis was with us best part of 9 years before departing for Leeds (and winning more silverware there), Bunting was here for 7 years, in the last 30 years I think Radford has being the incumbent for longest coming up to 5 seasons at the end of this campaign and unless something goes very badly wrong results wise (a lot worse than losing 7 on the trot) I can see him being in charge for the next 4 years even if we don't win anything.

I think it would take something catastrophic to happen for Radford’s tenure to be ended but and it’s a big but, if this season fizzles out as it may well do and next season goes a similar way, he may well find himself persona non grata. I don’t think AP is as soft on him as you imply.

Pearson would first look to the players, but I don't think anyone is to "blame", we are having a bad season for injuries, but still in it.

IF (and as you say, a huge IF) Radford was to go, who would come in?

I reckon Lee is here long term, and I hope he is. I would like to hear from Ellis more, but then Motu didn't say much & contributed a lot quietly behind the scenes.

I stil think we're doing OK

Denis Betts?

Well he does have experience (in the middle 8’s and the championship)