His optimism comes across, however it's actions rather than works that he should be judged on. Lets see how we stand at the start of next season.

He does need to do meetings like this a lot more often though.

Some things I'll be looking to see sorted before I buy a season ticket.

1. A reasonable squad being assembled that is a credible promotion challenger.

2. Online shop up and running before Xmas.

3. End to spelling mistakes in media releases.

E tickets next year apparently, but and print them off the internet. wants to save money employing people. Make sense.

3b. A website actually worth clicking on (which is in part a combination of 2 and 3).

4. New coaching staff confirmed? - Toovey would need his head testing if it's a choice between Gold Coast and Bradford. When us nutjobs who've been around 20+ years are finding it hard to be motivated, can't blame "an outsider" for looking for something better.

Are the owners of your club really make all these plans on the back of something that may or may not happen? Did they say who all your reserve grade teams would be playing? I mean you can only play Hull and Halifax so many times without either a - Getting bored or b - Hull stealing anyone who is any good. I also think your owners are playing you with the hybrid system and dressing it up rather than saying they are going part time, I give it a month in to the new season before you really understand what a hybrid system is(FWIW Fev and Fax run a hybrid full and part time system they just dont dress it up like that).

Up until the launch of Super Dooper league many teams could have been classed as 'hybrid' (Wigan being a notable exception). It seemed to work okay back in those days (or do I need to remove my rose tinted spectacles..?)

3000 season ticket sales is fanciful at best to be honest. I won't be buying one but little was likely to convince me to make such a commitment after so many let downs. The season is over with and perhaps if we can have an off season without any dramas I will feel a little more enthused about getting to a few games next year paying on the gate.

I spoke to a few people leaving the forum and pretty much everyone said no chance of 3k at the same price as this year.

If Geoff was watching the Titans lose again to Parramatta this morning hes probably thinking out of the frying pan and into the fire.Its a toss up whose worse them or us.They are woeful.

I can't think there's any chance of a Toovey settling for a part time coaching role in Div 3 nor does it make sense to pay whatever the going rate you pay Tooveys to move to UK and live here, given our new straitened circumstances. I also don't think it's reasonable to expect him to take a pay cut. If by some miracle he stayed then that alone would prove his dedication to the cause, but I don't think anyone would criticise him if he thought this was not for him.

That's the general vibe I get as well. I can't believe it was brushed over last night without comment. With hindsight, I should have questioned them on it.

OK, I've only just got around to reading about this forum properly. I am frankly amazed that so many people are thinking it was largely positive. Sure a couple of good things to come out of it (academy set ups for example), but also some bad (season ticket prices being frozen is ridiculous), but largely it's more of the usual suggestion that things are happening that they haven't backed up yet. In some cases (franchise) they won't have to back it up for years yet.

It seems like another of those forums where everyone falls in love with the person doing the speech and thinks he comes across really well, only to later realise they've bought a timeshare in the bermuda triangle using their entire life savings. Perhaps that's because I wasn't there to stare into his gorgeous eyes while he told me he wanted my wallet.

There were a lot of happy clappers there but you'd expect that. I'm giving Chalmers until the start of next season to see if he delivers on some of his pledges.

Have you emaled him about the press releases yet?

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So from weeks and weeks of " it can never work" to well actually there are 2 clubs already working that way ?

Do you ever actually read what you type ?

I suspect the ticket prices may change depending on how many league games we actually end up playing next season. It pretty much sums up the state of RL at the moment when we still don't know such a thing.
Obviously if we end up playing less games then the price will adjust accordingly.

I'd be interested to see a comparison in season ticket prices between ourselves and the other League 1 clubs. Someone on twitter suggested that Keighley's season tickets were only £14 cheaper than ours but I don't know how true that is.

This. Until we know number of games its hard to say whether season tickets are overpriced or not. Should be remembered that a lot of costs club has will stay same with a saving on first team playing budget being offset by increased costs for enlarged academy. All other costs will be broadly same irrespective of dropping down a league.

One interesting thing they stated was that our central funding next year will be £150k. This is the funding we would have got this year as lowest funding level in championship but we're dropping down a level so surely our central funding should be £75k which is central funding all championship 1 clubs get?. Is the level of championshiop 1 funding increasing next year? (or an expanded 14 team championship with us on lowest funding level ).

Hope they are correct and they aren't just assuming we'll get same next year as we would have done this year pre-liquidation.