Richard Agar is a British rugby league football coach and former player. He is the head coach of Super League

Super League

Super League is the top-level professional rugby league football club competition in Europe. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League. The League features fourteen teams: thirteen from England and one from...

 side Hull. Richard is the son of retired player coach, Allan Agar

Allan Agar

Allan Agar is an English former rugby league footballer and coach. Allan Agar is also the father of Richard Agar.A /, i.e. number 7, he played in the 1972–73 Northern Rugby Football League season's championship final for Dewsbury, helping them to victory....

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Agar played for Featherstone, Dewsbury and Widnes.

Hull appointed Richard Agar as their Head Coach following the departure of Peter Sharp

Peter Sharp

Peter Sharp is an Australian professional rugby league coach. He is currently the assistant coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Australia's National Rugby League....

. He had spent four years as assistant coach to John Kear

John Kear

John Kear is an English rugby league coach and former rugby league player. Kear is currently the coach of Batley Bulldogs...

 and Sharp.

In September 2011 it was announced that Agar had signed a three year deal with Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats are a professional rugby league club that plays in the European Super League and is based in Wakefield. They achieved promotion in 1999 and have remained in the League since. They are known to their fans as Wakey, Trinity, Wildcats, or historically The Dreadnoughts...

 and will become their head coach following the end of the 2011 season.

External links

• Hull FC profile
• HULL APPOINT AGAR AS HEAD COACH
• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org