John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:30 am  

With Batley now punching above their weight in the Championship, another excellent win yesterday against Leigh, should JK have had another season at BV or were we right to let him go ?

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:36 am  

I would of given him a two year contract...

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:40 am  

Absolutely love jk, still gutted he left but very glad things going good for him

I would have certainly extended his contract

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:48 am  

Are they playing one pass rugby?
I said it then and stick with it now, I think we were right to get rid!

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:00 am  

18th Man wrote:

Are they playing one pass rugby?
I said it then and stick with it now, I think we were right to get rid!

In fairness, most of us had had enough of the rugby we were playing 2 seasons ago (no to mention the regular batterings) but, he looks to be doing a great job at the mount, just as he did for the vast majority of the time he was here.
We will never know for sure if he could have transformed our on field fortunes had he stayed but, it does seem that he's doing well at Batley.
A very dignified and passionate coach and we owe him a great deal for the "great eascape" season and our albeit breif spell at the top of SL just before the wheels fell off.

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:09 am  

Right for the club and coach to go their separate ways as long as the successor was an improvement. Personally I don't believe Agar is. Anyhow its water under the bridge and time to look forward.

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:33 am  

On the whole Kear did a decent job for a few seasons but that last season the team selections and tactics were very very baffling for an experienced coach. We all know what scraps he had to work with but, the hammerings we were taking with no alteration from week to week was unforgivable. With the worst half-backs in the league he constantly played people out of position. An ideal opportunity to blood some youngsters into Super League, looking at his team sheet every week was depressing and wondering if we could keep the opposition under 50pts is all we could hope for. Although Agar isn't the best we could hope for but Kear would be a giant leap backwards.

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Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:17 pm  

I like what he did for Wakefield and would go as far as to say that he has been the most influencial coach we've had while I've been watching Wakefield (and I go back to late 70s).
Many times he made average players into better ones and bonded a team to beat teams they really shouldn't have expected to.
Equally we had games where it didn't go well. That's just sport I'm afraid.

I didn't want Kear before he came. Didn't really like the teams he'd been at, but he changed my mind and it remains changed.

I didn't really want Agar either, preferring to keep Kear, but now we have Agar I'm willing to learn from my mistake with Kear and give him a chance to prove himself and build a club.

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:22 pm  

musson wrote:

Absolutely love jk, still gutted he left but very glad things going good for him

I would have certainly extended his contract

This for me. A new 2 year deal and would have let him make the signings he wanted (within budget) and then live or die by that sword.

I felt bad when he went with the team he had cobbled together.

Re: John Kear : Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:35 pm  

No point looking back - JK wanted out and he got his wish; now everyone has moved on.