Allan Agar

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Who is Allan Agar?

Allan Agar is an English rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s, and coach of the 1980s and '90s. Allan Agar is the father of Richard Agar.

A Scrum-half, i.e. number 7, he played in the 1972–73 Northern Rugby Football League season's championship final for Dewsbury, helping them to victory.

Agar's good form continued over the following decade and he played in the Hull Kingston Rovers team that beat Hull in the Challenge Cup final in 1980.

Agar coached Featherstone Rovers to one of the biggest upsets in Wembley history that year, when they defeated Hull in the 1983 Challenge Cup final. He then went on to win the Man of Steel Award in 1983.

He later coached Rochdale Hornets from July 1989 until January 1991. Since then Agar was appointed CEO of the Featherstone Rovers.

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