Good to see you back Deckchair.

League Express I believe have come out and announced new Wire Coach and two players, but nothing on official site.
I think most just want some sort of communication or reassurance that things are moving at their end.

There are currently limited reasons to be cheerful. After one of the worst seasons in recent years we now have no coach and have shed a lot of players (deadwood or not). You're blind faith that the club "obviously" have someone lined up won't make people have confidence in the CEO and isn't shared by everyone.

Don't get how you "can't wait for the off season" when you don't know what kind of team will be on offer.

This could all turn around quite fast if we announce some decent signings and/or we get a statement from a new coach about his intentions etc. At that point i expect a few more people's appetites will be whet.

I can understand the frustrations and worries people have at the current set up, especially when the club are telling us prices will go up after October for season ticket renewals. People need a reason to renew after last seasons lack luster performances from a team who couldn't be d and a coach who himself admitted fell out with the sport 3 years ago.

The LE can announce new players & Coach without overly worrying if its correct or not because thats what newspapers do.

The Club however can only make an announcement when everything is 100% sorted & contracts signed. Its madly annoying because we all want to know but we're just going to have to wait.

The issue, for me at least, is that everything coming out of the club has been bad news with very little to look forward to.
In the last year or so the results have been bad, players have left whilst still under contract, players haven't played to their potential, an inexperienced CEO is appointed, the current coach leaves, Hiku leaves, Pomeroy looked to be appointed as a stop gap, players that we probably should have kept sign up elsewhere or retire, seemingly none of the first choice coaches we wanted have committed and only one confirmed signing so far.

All in all, people are only following what is coming from the club which, currently, isn't a lot.

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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.