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Fans kept aware of what's going on. Not a daily update of our current malaise, just a hint of what's going on. It's over 3 weeks since Smith announced his departure, and we STILL don't have a coach announcement. We MUST have one in place, or else why have we been signing players. Imagine Moran/Fitzpatrick signing players off their own back, a new coach comes in, and says "what've you signed him for? He's poop". As fans, we're having the slash taken out of us.

Crunch biscuit coated in a thick layer of milk chocolate...in orange or mint flavours for me.

Exactly this. A little more honesty and communication. The radio silence from the club doesn't me make me think the board/CEO are suddenly inept, we have some smart cookies behind the scenes. The radio silence makes me think the club are simply out of touch with the fanbase.

I want to hear the coach say we were crap when we were, and that he knows what we need to work on for next week. I want to hear the board say "we know you fans are upset with the season, we are too, and rest assured we know what we need to do to fix it next year".

The general fan PR aspect of the club is very similar to a TS post match interview.

Here lies a big problem

People these days, don't like the slashing taken out of them, if they're being ignored.
Cases in poimt.
Airline goes bust this morning. People still turning up at airports. No communication from airline. No e-mail-text sent. Just hope you had the right radio/TV station on, to save a wasted journey.
Incident on motorway fortnight ago. People stranded in cars with ZERO communication from authorities for ELEVEN hours.
Train delays again with stranded passengers, umpteen times a week, with NO info as to what's happening.
People are SICK of being taken as mugs, Services are great at taking money from punters, but keeping them in the dark, should there be an issue. Pee people off, too many times, they go elsewhere.

I'm not asking for hourly updates, just keep us relatively up to date.
As I said earlier, we've signed a player, ergo, we must have a coach that his signed him. Still no announcement.

Pathetic.

Unfortunately contract negotiations have to be carried out in secret for all sorts of reasons...the Barba situation being one, if it doesn't come off you look an idiot.
As I recall the Hiku signing was out of the blue. Speaking of which the club have to be given credit for signing him, ok he has gone now but arguably his end of season signing was far more significant than the Andrew Johns signing (discuss).

Without Hiku we would have been relegated. I'm sure he saved us so yes a much more significant signing.

Peta Hiku...i think without him our 10 game winning run would have been somewhat different.

I can relate to some of that. My moto is post and be dammed.

Actually Duckie I meant if the club announce a potential signing and it doesn't come off the club look amateurish, it wasn't a dig at you, or any other poster.

I never refereed that you did. I just agreed with you.

It was obvious (to me at any rate) that things were happening in the background. Where I think the club has fallen down slightly this time around is that they haven't given enough assurance that things WERE happening behind the scenes. It didn't need names or quality of player, just that negotiations were on going with x amount of players, we will be releasing details in the next x weeks.

Clubs have the right to keep things close to their chests, but with no coach and 10 players leaving i think the club could have done better in keeping spirits up. Fan communication is important - KF learning point.

That said if Roberts and BMM are announced in the next week or so, I'll be a very happy boy.

I too want to be entertained, as do most SL fans, take note clubs.

I don't think anyone expects the club to spew info like a 15 year old's Instagram feed (I was talking to Ben and really excited but then I find out he was using me and chose that bitch Saints over me sad emoji)

However I've just skimmed though the club's recent statements on our website and there isn't anything mentioning that we're looking for a new coach.

So even though we have some super sleuths and people in the know on here, OFFICIALLY, Agar is our coach next season, and that's the problem.

The club have an appalling rapport with social media and given that SM is in the promotions business you would think that his business interests would be right on top of it. Doesn't take much to give the responsibility to one of the bright young things to update the social media feeds.

Ingrained negativity for a lot on here is a difficult addiction to control.

I'd agree that what I want from the Club as an arm round me.

There should be a statement from someone senior that they are aware of the fans frustration this year and the increasing concerns about the insecurity of the coaching set up and the squad. However the 2018 season is being addresses and exploring a number of options to deliver a stronger squad than last year.

It's like having an examination and waiting for the results. The not knowing causes more stress and bad feeling than it would if we were told some news on a regular basis. The soundbites from the board promising better communication and exploiting social media simply isn't true.

Was it "negativity" to comment on our woeful performances, recruitment, league position, post match press conference nonsense - or was it reality and accurate prediction? We were not given a lot to be joyful about and to be fair this is a Warrington Rugby League forum. Be a bit boring if every post started "everything is awesome". No, the realists called it back in March 2017, just took the forum rump to catch up over 6 months.

In terms of 2018 positivity I think you will find a number of those criticising the car crash as it unfurled in 2017 (the addicted negative lot) are actually quite appreciate of the steps the club are now making post TS exit.