Widnes v Hull FC: Agar rues not ending playing career with final flourish

By The Newsroom

Published 21st May 2011, 07:00 BST

IT WAS not the fact he opted against taking up a Super League playing contract with Widnes that left Hull FC coach Richard Agar with one of his few regrets in the sport.

As a guiding stand-off, he helped Widnes, who his side visit today in the Carnegie Challenge Cup fifth round, win the 2001 NFP Grand Final and earn a cherished promotion to the top flight.

Agar only featured 18 times for the Chemics – “and only lost once in a Widnes shirt” – after following coach Neil Kelly there from Dewsbury earlier that season.