Correct Maurice. There has to be rules and all must buy into them. Being a FT professional RL player is no different from going to a FT job outside of sport. As long as the employers / Clubs' rules are fair to all, and legitimate, then everyone who is employed must understand them and abide by them. I found it sad to hear previous accounts on this Messageboard of some players not turning up for training at 7am, whilst others did turn up. If 7am was the agreed time set by the coaching staff to meet up for training then all the players should have been there at that time. We all know that sometimes things happen out of our control that may make you late, and I am sure that is understood. Rare exceptions can be made if justified. However, the onus must be on everyone, coaches and the players, to stick to the rules. Some people in this world are what I would describe as 'high maintenance'. That person identifies the poor manager and cultivates a friendly relationship with them. Once they have them in their pocket, so to speak, they make their play. Sympathy is obtained from them over whatever story they spin to their advantage. The advantage being to make their own life easier. One problem away from work follows another, and then one excuse follows another. An inch taken becomes a mile, and then that person will ask for exemptions from doing the hard work or the crap job, or ask to come in late or leave early. This happens over and over. We have all worked with these people and they cause unrest in any proverbial camp. They are the "bad apples" and if they are allowed to go too far you get trouble in the workplace. Some people like to think of them as 'likeable rogues', the proverbial 'cheeky chappy'. They are not, and they will upset any good team ethic that ever existed in the first place, presuming that it ever did. The grafters get upset watching what they get away with and focus is lost. It is ultimately down to poor management. If NJ and the other Coaches saw this happening last season and weren't getting a grip of the situation before it got out of hand then they were all at fault.
Hopefully KC will bring good discipline to the Club and hopefully all will understand how important it is overall.

Given the quite wide range of issues, seemingly affecting a good number of players then makes you wonder what next season would have been like had we won the MPG.

Spot on, i am a production Manager and boy do i recognise the scenarios you have described. I think a person promoted from a 2nd to the gaffer can have a harder job "distancing themselves" from work friendships developed in previous roles within an organisation but it has to be done if you are to be respected and seen to be even handed.

It does indeed make you wonder.. KC must be in his element at the minute,being allowed to build his own squad from scratch,certainly wouldn't have happened had we won MPG.

7 a.m. seems a trifle early for the lads travelling over from Yorkshire, especially given the vagaries of the M62. Healthwise, leaving home to meet that sort of start time must be just slightly dodgy?

We appear to be building a squad that could have competed in the SL let alone the Championship.

Very true, Exciting times ahead. Let's hope the fans get behind the club. I will.

Poor excuse, I work at Worsley and we have lads in at 6am who live in Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds.

Not making excuses Roy - just not sure why they have to start at 7.

Next signing to be announced at 8:30 according to Dereks twitter.

Well it wasn’t a new signing it was the season ticket news. Website crashed again!!!