Quote: Barbed Wire "I cant get my head around this “let’s see in 12 months” mentality. We’re going to be seeking major investment from sponsors, season ticket holders and corporate partners. Alongside trying to appeal to players to come to the club (aside from throwing money at them). It’s pathetic. If we were going in the right direction, I’d be half tempted to agree but we’re a basket case.
We need to start looking like a club that isn’t in absolute flipping free fall. Who’s going to renew season tickets to watch that? Who is going to chose us over a proper club if the money is equivalent? We’ll be paying over the odds or shopping in the Ooops section.
The whole thing stinks. The youth have been dropped, the whole squad is underperforming and the only senior player to bear the brunt is a bloody winger!!
The scramble to bring in two props, one of them a 35 year old loanee is admission of failure of the pre-seasons recruitment campaign.
From top to bottom, this has gone wrong. The ship is rudderless. If the rumours are true (Carney all but confirmed it last night) that Cooper has been let go, we will have gone from having a powder puff pack with only 2 decent props, the having a powder puff pack without any in the space of Powell’s premiership. If players are disconnected, get them bloody on side and work with them. If they are genuinely bad apples, STOP BEING A COWARD AND DONT PICK THEM WEEK AFTER WEEK! Can’t have it both ways.
Utterly mindless. Devoid of ideas. The only shining light of last night was the Leeming was good, Jesus wept'"
I feel your passion and you make some very good points but to counter some of them
Recruitment - the squad had been sliding for years, Powell made the mistake of trusting the "challenge accepted" nonsense from Philbin on the packs capability. He had tried to remedy this for next season and this.
Youth - Ashton and Wrench are now starters. Thewlis has missed out because Powell is trying to find a halfback partnership that works.
You are spot on though - he needs to start dropping players. Currie, Philbin, King for starters.
I know we currently stink but succumbing to player power to oust a coach is unthinkable in repercussions. It's not as if they are top world class players we need to keep happy.