Quote: The Penguin "There's been some interesting debate here. And it's an issue that's bothered me for a long time. As fans, we are nowhere near demanding enough. Because of the club's turbulent history, I think a lot of us got into a mind-set of "just be thankful we have a club to support at all" - which is a point I understand, but we have to look for more.
When you're an expansion club, there should be an atmosphere of dynamism and growth, and there was never enough of either with us. Compare us to the Catalans. It's a really stark contrast. Decision-making was, and still is, muddled, underperformance is not challenged, but we as fans don't pull them up on it.'"
As performances got worse and worse and thousands of Broncos fans began to disappear it was this misguided cheerleading from the clique who were desperate for the players to shake their hand and still are that will perhaps ultimately cause the club to die.
A true supporter would have had the guts to stick their head above the parapet and confront players, coaching staff and owner in an effort to stop the horrendous decline.
I can recall doing that by myself only to be met with a volley of abuse from fellow fans along the lines of 'F off then if you don't want to support the team'. Well I did F off as did countless others.
If you have a child who for example spits at someone or hits another for no reason then you discipline it, you don't praise it. You stand by your child but you damn well tell them when they have done wrong.
Again, I cannot fathom how David Hughes himself stomachs it. I would love to see the contracts the players are on this season and how much of their wage is performance related. Quite frankly if I was the owner I would have put them on the living wage alone as a basic but with a generous league position based win bonus. Sadly I very much doubt that is the case.