there you are, last season. why not take into account their form so far this season, which is very good?


it amazes me how so called fans look for the negatives and make us sound as bad as possible.

I don't think that there is anything to WORRY about,No relegation ,3yrs franchise,top manager on board that's enough to get me through this season.
Next season all the deadwood will have been cast into the wilderness and a new team will have risen from the ashes maybe we should change the team name to WARRINGTON PHOENIX. Instead of Wolves.
I can see Monaghan being the next out of the door,anyone could have done better than him today which surprises me seeing as he wants to go back to the NRL best RL comp in the world (my ass it is ) any NRL team that watches any of his performances this or last season will run a mile in the opposite direction I can see us farming him out to Widnes just to get rid let Cullen have him back seeing as he was the one who saddled us with the donkey !

KEEP THE FAITH BOYS !

only 18 more visits to the dentist before the end of the season

Anyone can support a winning team but only a loyal can support a stuggling team ...

I couldn't believe that some idiots were booing at half time when we were only 6-0 behind

simple mate , dont go

Excellent post.

If you don't enjoy it, don't come

I don't get to a great deal of matches as I am not willing to travel as far as others do but when I saw Salford beat us i didn't boo, I was just happy enough that i had witnessed the match.

(just read my post back and i sound like a mentalist, but it is still true)

Given performances so far this year, one is tempted to think that maybe PC was a genius coach to get this lot to perform even occasionally as well as they did. More importantly, the dead end in skill we seem to have reached does show that probably the weakest area of PC's coaching ability was judgment of player quality. King ( although he fooled plenty of other coaches , too), Monaghan, Rauhihi, the Andersons, Bridge and others are clearly quite ordinary players once removed from teams of giants around them. I agree with sally cinnamon that there is little point in making emergency changes now. By season end a large group of players will be out of contract and I think we may see seven or eight leave, four or five new British players brought in, a couple of substitutions of big-ticket Aussies and the promotion of one or two juniors to the first team squad.

For 2009, we need to accept that teams like Cas who did their own rebuilding in previous seasons are clearly better than we are, so no point in booing when we lose to a team that is obviously superior.

Sally I totally agree with your well reasoned post from a rugby perspective, however I am concerned about the business implications of effectively giving up on this season in the pursuit of "jam tomorrow".

Just the loss of revenue from turnstyle receipts alone concern me. For example the same fixture against Castleford in May 2006 had an attendance of 9,508 compared with yesterday's 8,202. What is worse is that I suspect Castleford brought a lot more travelling support this year than then due to Easter and their recent performances.

I would say that is open to debate, the West Stand was about a third full indicating a crowd of about 1200. When I looked across I thought the away crowd was quite sp relative to usual Cas following. Add to that, they had come off a bit of a spanking on Good Friday.

That said, away crowds should have no bearing on the overall attendance, as your core support should be more than enough to overcome any small attendance from away supporters.

Commercially, we are fighting for a slice of a shrinking pie, it is unfortunate that we sweeping through with a new broom in such difficult times.

Yes this will work. If you are unhappy don't bother coming. Next game 2000 attendance. Next season no money,no players, no hope. Season after that lose the franchise. Season after that the true supporters can watch the team bump around the National Leagues.

Genius.

I wasn't at the game but were we any worse then the Catalan game at home ??