There's a difference between negative for the sake of negativity (which seems to have been the OP's motivation in starting this thread) and fans of the club voicing their genuine concerns of aspects of the running of the club.

My viewpoint on the club is currently one of cynicism and skepticism. Which given how this club has been run over the last decade is, IMO, a fair way of thinking.

Personally, I don't trust Chalmers and Lowe. It's not really anything personal against them, other than they don't seem to be too bothered about trying to get the fans on side - case in point the first fans forum of their reign happens when the season was all but over with AND took place during the beginning of August when a great many people are taking their summer holidays and thus you cut down the number of potential attendees.

Now I attended that fans forum and was shocked that it had not taken place back in February. The whole RFL forcing the club to start in the Championship on minus 12, plus having the bulk of it's central funding taken away AND the having to pay out additional cash to a player support charity is the perfect ammo the club could have used to get the fans onside in a "Yes, we're behind the 8-Ball and we are going to try everything to avoid it but relegation seems a certainty". Then you could use the clubs favourite saying this season "stick with us"

But communication with the fans doesn't seem to be even anything like a priority to the new owners. I don't want to know every little in and out at the club (although I know some do and seem to consider it an affront that they're not personally consulted on every decision )

As it stands, there are 3 things the club and it's new owners need to do to get me, and probably others who think as I do, back on their side.

1. The hiring of the most qualified coach who throws his hat in the ring. I'm not interested in having another "club legend" take the reigns as I'm not convinced there's been that many ex-players who've got the necessary credentials to be a head coach
2. Work to ensure that we don't simply become a feeder club for SL - at the moment, there aren't that many SL clubs who don't have at least one ex-Bulls academy graduate on their books
3. The club cannot go bust or have any other financial scare story reported about it for the next 12 months. And that doesn't mean wait until Dec 2018 and go belly up then either.

4 from the academy!

It's no wonder that the RL insist on us keeping our academy.

I dont care if they play like robots/zombies/aliens - if they win games - thats good enough for me.
Aside from a few odd games - we stopped playing entertaining footie years ago.
Given a choice of watching good rugby but losing, or watching poor rugby but winning - nowadays I'm happy to pay for the latter.
Lets get back into Super League then we can ask for pretty footie.

Who says we can't win and be entertaining and progressive that's how you get fans back isn't it? Sharp might well win games, but he has no brain, and will coach from the one book he's read.

Percentages, completion yada, yada - I'd like to be entertained on a Sunday afternoon.

It's all pretty pointless debate, as we all like different things my friend.

The thing that makes me think that Sharp would be a good idea is that when i’ve watched his teams they all seem very good defensively. They have been well organised and hard to score against.

We have players that are more than capable of exciting attacking plays. I don’t think scoring points is going to be a problem this year. Guys like Chisholm, Keyes, Minchella, Peltier, Smith, Ryan and Oakes will score plenty of points in C1.

What we need is someone who can sort out the defence. Our ability to defend has been atrocious the last few years.

I have no problem with the suggestion of Sharp with Greenwood as his assistant.