Quote: meast "as i've said repeatedly, we are punching above our weight, we simply cannot match Leeds, Wigan, saints, Warrington, Hull, catalans for finances, crowds, marketing, but yet we are consistently challenging at the top unlike,say hull, who seem to struggle.
we can only go so far on our limited finances, we lose money as a club every year, so we obviously aren't able to bring in a whole raft of backroom staff, as IVOR says, Leeds have over 150 members of their backroom staff, we have less than 40 IIRC.
we are all frustrated at the perceived lack of ambition, but it's not ambition that is holding us back, or the people running the club, it's the lack of finances.
players are given contracts who aren't good enough, well they are good enough according to the people who run the club otherwise they wouldn't sign players, we can't just "get rid" of players as people suggest, we can't just "get people in".
i agree that we are probably 3/4 very good players short of being a very good team that is able to go that next step, but if we cant afford those players then what? why do Wakefield struggle every year? why have Bradford gone downhill?? because they have no money to get better players in!'"
Your support of the club does you credit Meast, but what you are basically saying is we cannot expect to go any further forward than we are, We can desperately hope too, but to all intents and purposes this is as good as it gets.
You are saying we are in this Chicken and Egg situation, I agree with you. We can't afford the right Key players because we don't get the crowds to fund them, We don't get the crowds because we don't play an attractive enough style of rugby to draw the crowds in, So basically we carry on in the same mode till the diminishing crowds make the club no longer sustainable and we fold.
I agree with what the Barron said, It's time to bite the bullet. I know It's easy to spend some one else's money, but if Mr Davy is planning to continue to invest at his present rate, for say the next 10 years"for example" why not bang it in in the next 2/ 3 years , get some class players and get amongst the so called big boys.
If it works we get to win things maybe, at the very least we become truly one of the top sides, If we are playing classy Football there is every chance we will win things and the crowds will come and watch, for all this to work we have to have the right people, and we have to market any success we have.
If it all goes belly up, it wont have cost Mr Davy any more, he can walk away knowing he has done everything he can to make the Giants a success. ( in truth he could walk away now with his head held high )
Comparing us to Wakey or Bradford meast is quite pointless. Neither of those clubs have had the incredible good fortune that we have. If we are punching above our weight what have Wakey been doing, they have survived in Super league playing everyone else's cast off players, and had any half decent players they have brought on taken by other clubs , including us, ( to the great glee of many Giants fans )
Bradford's record speaks for It's self, No matter what they are now , they were the pace setters in Summer rugby, they have been to heights we can only dream about, A lot of Giants fans hate them with a vengeance, but It's only because they were a great side and a lot of Huddersfield fans preferred to watch them than the Giants. ( I must say this hatred of other clubs and their fans is not peculiar to Giants Fans ) they are no worse than any others.
All the other clubs you mention have no bearing on our dilemma, They have their own problems to solve we have ours, I don't care if Leeds or Wigan have 500 backroom staff it does us no good, I'm more concerned with the job ours are doing.
Like you I have watched the Giants for a long time, I just have the feeling that ( just like that game against Leeds ) now is our chance to move up , We have some good players, we have one or two very good players, We need the right players to take us on, and we have to do whatever it takes to get them, If we can't then so be it , we shall remain a nearly team at best , and a Gone club at worst.
