Like any responsible CEO - especially with a salary cap - he controls budgets. Ultimately people who understand professional sport ( whatever their number of years watching) know the coach makes decisions on signing personnel.

I did not think you would set up a trust - that takes real effort rather than bleating. Your observation that your ticket money etc goes towards the running costs of the club is not a revelation.

4 year contracts are often 3 yrs + an option. Often the 4th year swings the deal. Many of our sihgnings have been '4 years' and i am glad the likes of Eorl and Broughy signed them. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not, this is true of many SL clubs.I have commented elsewhere about brown's role re BH.

Your last comment is hilarious. You claim to have supported the Giants for 25 years yet you think things cannot get any worse than 2012. You must have problems with medium and long term memory!

Eorl on a 4 year contract, other players on 5 year contracts. All players proven at the club already. Im talking about risking it on big aussie earners.

I do not need to set anything up, I have a job already. One that if I was failing at I would be removed from.

My last comment was taken out of context, obviously i was not refering to the dark days. Things have changed alot since then.

You are a fan of Thewlis, I arent. Simple as that.

Our club is becoming a joke and something has to be done about it.

Ever heard the saying " rolls down hill"? So it must start at the top.

A supporter of 25 years is no claim either! For my sins its a fact.

and me a PM also (what are these PM's?)

in recent few weeks we've seen fans say we should have kept A B & C but offloaded D, E & F and maybe G, but not one person questioned any of the decisions in the 1st half of the season.

I refer to a previous comment that most asked "Brett who?" after Grix shredded the full back slot back in 2011 and then no one shed a tear when grix was moved to stand off and the boy wonder Eden came in at the beginning of 2012.

No one is to blame, it's confidence, we dont have bad players, it's the fact they've gone into this hole and it appears the rope only allows one out at a time.Unfortunately, they all might not make it out before the end of the season

So which players have full 4 year deals rather than 3 plus option. These players have tended to be proven internationals / SOO players / GF winners.

You are clueless re who makes decisions in sport clubs. Using an infantile 'poop' saying to support judgements about the running of a professional sport club illustrate your limitations.

Your back tracking on things not getting any worse is duly noted.

I am neither a 'fan'or otherwise of Thewlis. I just wont be a knee jerking fool who slags him off for things that are not his responsibility.

This is an open public forum. Not a enter your business plan for "running a professional sports club" (by the way which professional sports club do you run?)

3 years with an option of 4 contract! Whos option is it? The players. Who lets face it will take another year of massive pay for sitting on the treatment table. But hey ho, it all goes towards the retirement fund.

It is abundantly clear you are clueless. All you can muster is 'poop' sayings. the fact that you blame things on RT that are board or chairman / owner decisions shows you are out of your depth.

If your momunmental ignorance were in any doubt on howclubs run your final comment proves it. You think it is a players option...you are a clot Surely you are joking? the option will either be with the club or be by mutual consent.

Keep digging......

who is responsible for the training ground problems, players moving from field to field in order to train having to make their own way from pillar to post and ending back on leeds road, not kd who i gather didnt know about these issues and had to be informed by a player, none of this is helping the current situation doesnt seem very professional to me.

The only people who know what is happening at the giants are the players and the committee.I prefer to wait until they decide to tell us just what.We may all be surprised.

To cripesginger nö i am Not totally stupid i Would Never as Would nö Other Giants Fan call into question Ken Davy or his loyalty and commitment to the Club. It is up to Ken who he employs Coach and CEO. it is his Money that keeps the Club afloat but that does Not Mean as a Fan of 30 years i Cannot have an opinion that we have the wrong Coach in Place poor Chief Executive and Other Key staff if we are to be a Top Super league Club it is Not only Playing matters that are a shambles the commercial and Marketing are light years behind town and Other Leading sl Clubs Training facilities etc etc . All you know alls on here tell me its all fine Where is the evidence i know a lot of Giants Fans and None are renewing for nxt Season i Hope my Sample is Not the True picture

I have not seen a single post saying that you or anyone should not have an opinion. Please show me where someone has said this....

Who has said that it is all fine? Please show me where someone has said this....

I suppose some people - perhaps with a learning difficulty? - are surprised that clubs that have been bigger for decades or that play in a sport with much more money than rugby league have better commercial or training facilities than the Giants. Gee whodathunkit!

I obviously misunderstood your OP. When you said the top I thought you meant the top. It now turns out you did not mean the top. When you say top you mean something else.

In your 30 years of loyal support name the CEO with a better record than RT on:

- On field performance

- Average gates

- Youth development

- Sponsorships

I cannot.

I think the biggest frustration a lot of us have is that we haven't really kicked on as a club in the last 3/4 years. Never mind winning silverware,i mean it has taken us years to become a respected club,we slowly built up to get in the play offs,then in 2009 we got to wembley,was one game away from the GF and looking good at the star of the next 2 seasons. But we have stagnated somewhat,last 2 years we have got into the play offs with little hope of doing anything, our u20's have been poor since that run to the final eliminator,and our crowds are once again in decline.
We had a great chance after wembley to finally cement ourselves as a top team able to compete with the very best but we seem to have missed that chance and have now become mediocre again,who's fault is that? I dont know but i do know that we need everyone, fans included to be pulling in the same direction again

Meast my comments are not 'aimed at you' as you are not a poster with a blaming mentality.

I love it when people talk about the club not kicking on. They obviously have some toytown view of how competitive organisations operate.

Where is this magic formula that guarentees year on year improvement? If our fans have such a formula they will likely be multi millionaires or billionaires...so can that expertise into the club!

In the 9 years since returning to SL we have been in the play offs 5 times and 2 CC finals. Ask HKR / Cas / Widnes / Salford /Crusaders what they would give for that level of performance in the 9 years following promotion! how they would love to stagnate like the Giants.

As for the 20s comp the giants have never valued it and focussed more on the scholarship and 18s. The RFl have now seen that the club were right and they are scrapping the 20s.

Some of our fans want to blame one maybe two individuals for this season. They are lashing out like a schoolchild having a tantrum. they do so with limited information and the benefit of hindsight. they need to grow up.

glad to see Ivor C&G Scarf saw my message, everyone else has continued to argue and miss it

PS now I understand, PM's are the inbox messages.

l have said many times, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and that opinion should be respected whether you agree or not.
lf you do not agree you should submit a counter opinion. too many people on here just resort to rubbishing posters with derogatory remarks. MODs???