True, but will he become almost universally hated like Degsy? Very probable

We've spent a decade eating humble pie. We've not earnt the right to preach and pontificate.

Yes we should should put our view forward but just reading the full piece in the T&A is uncomfortable. Calling out other lower league clubs in the way he did? I know there's emotion there but it's not doing the clubs rep any good airing it in public every week.

Have you noticed its nearly always the New owners that do this in the press? Beaumont, Koukash, Chalmers etc

Maybe these guys are good guys that the sport needs and are just vocal like fans in the early days when they realise how dated and poorly run our game is.

This is a very good point. Maybe not in this particular instance, but without AC kicking up a fuss about SL teams running roughshod over non-SL teams and the RFL, WOULD they get away with anything?

I don't think he is making himself a pariah either; I imagine 90% of the non-SL teams chairmen support him, even in things like this. Hell, in this case I can even see a couple of SL chairmen supporting him.

He maybe should wind it in a bit, but what he says has the ring of truth in it despite it being delivered in a clumsy fashion.

Can’t say I give a about upsetting a few SL club chairmen. If you believe they will at some point ‘do us a favour’ I’d question your sanity. I’d rather read his true opinions than a load guff each week that is carefully worded to not offend anyone.

I'm more partial to this point of view. If nobody stands up to these guys, then who will? He might be self-appointed and self-righteous but I'm convinced he has the club's and the game's best interests at heart and if he's a thorn in the side of some then who cares? At least he's fighting on our behalf.

Chalmers needs to stop sticking his nose into everything and look closer to home. To start with sorting out the match day experience on game day which is frankly a disgrace.

Agree 100%

Why is it a disgrace?

Well based on sunday there was the choas with hundreds of season tickets not scanning.
The ladies toilets behine the stand being closed
The cubicle in the gents in the touchdown bar being out of order
The ongoing issues with the flood lights
The choice (or lack of) of food available
The price of said food and alcohol.
This mght be pedantic but the new electric scoreboard didnt last a full half with out going off and was barely visible from behind the sticks

Now dont get me wrong. None of the above would stop me going.
Hell id be daft enough to go if it was £35 a match and is was -15degrees to watch us play a non league team in the cup, but there are loads of off the field stuff on game day that dont make it a great fan experience most of which wouldnt take much to fix.

We have made massive strides on the field the last couple of years id love us to make a few more small steps off it.

(Ill go put my tin hat on now!)

I think the club has plenty of room for improvement as far as matchday offer is concerned too. Most of us on here go regardless of what's on offer but if the club want to attract new supporters they need to do much better. Clubs on much smaller budgets than ours seem manage.

I’d agree that there is plenty to improve on a matchday, don’t see what relevance that has with his newspaper column though? Unless you’d prefer to read updates on plumbing issues in said column?!

Thread has drifted somewhat.

On the column I'd like to hear more from him about how the club are progressing rather than about his feud with SL.

Isn't just SL either.



OK, Then don't smash into 3 of them within a few paragraphs of the weekly.

He's getting a bit annoying to me.

Wow Andy! Great way to fire up Sheffield before tonight!!! What next?

Pre-Toronto

"I've always thought nobby was a bit of a c**t, McDermott's a pussy and his team would be better off playing netball'???

I'm sure the digs at Sheffield is left over hostility over them being one of the teams that went the other way in the Super League vote. But that doesn't make it any less petty. There really is no need for it.