I don't want to lay the blame with Tony, but as good as a coach he CAN be, I think he's probably sending the wrong messages at the moment.

He strikes me as a "confidence" coach- if the team are playing well then he has the nous tactically to keep things ticking over and is good at keeping feet on the ground and players looking ahead and focusing on their next performance.

If however things are going the other way, I don't think he's "hard" enough to really get into the team. After yesterday you want a coach to rip the sh*t out of the players- in fact you would have wanted that at half time. In fact, you would have wanted that after the Widnes and Huddersfield games. I don't think he's the sort of coach for that's likely to do that.

Having said that, I still think he was the right hire, no question. His hiring certainly rekindled a lot of the optimism from us in the offseason that was missing last didn't it? A return to the "good old days" when he was in charge at Brentford (at least the last good old days that I can remember) and we had a team playing exciting attacking rugby and always with their hearts, win or lose. Why that optimism hasn't been reflected in attendances who can say, separate issue of course.

My point was in one thread if you read it currently the way we are playing it is a total waste of money marketing the team, because anyone who came new yesterday will never come again! the Stoop is just a factor!

I brought 2 mates yesterday and strangely enough, they're both keen to come back

edit- I think I should get Gus' job!

They come just for the laugh

I think Ronnie got his thread title wrong: "whiff of decay". More like stink of death. BTW, do people know that we turned down the offer of a game with Melbourne because it would have cost us too much? Possibly a justifiable decision on financial grounds but a clear sign of a total lack of ambition. www.loverugbyleague.com/news_110 ... -game.html

I think Ronnie got his thread title wrong: "whiff of decay". More like stink of death. BTW, do people know that we turned down the offer of a game with Melbourne because it would have cost us too much? Possibly a justifiable decision on financial grounds but a clear sign of a total lack of ambition. www.loverugbyleague.com/news_110 ... -game.html

If that is true it is unfekkingbeleivable! Stench of death, rotting odour of a mass grave more like!

Surely a large crowd of bar staff at The Stoop would de-rail the Gus Master Plan?

Gillingham or die!

One is a Liverpool fan so I think he came so he could see a club in a worse state than his own.

Maybe we can use that as a marketing angle, "come and feel better about the failings of your own life with the rugby league circus at the stoop this sunday"

Ah....but who do you blame?

Guess!

Dropping Dorn and spurning a great opportunity to play the Storm, they have lost the plot big-time!

Was it really such a bad decision? Our crowds are so small we can barely afford to turn the lights on and pay for the stewards......and suddenly we are expected to stump up all the money for setting up such a game, plus associated Storm costs, expenses etc.......all in the hope that Leeds will cough up some money to soften the blow. The RFL clearly want nothing to do with it, even though it is good for the promotion of the sport as a whole in this country (their responsibility), but as ever they expect the clubs involved, the supposed benafactors to foot the bill. Yes we may have attracted say 5,000 to a one off game, but would they have come back?......I think we all know the answer to that.
Given the `strength` of our team and the way we are playing where we are not even able to compete with the likes of Widnes and Wakefield, what sort of `game` would we have offered to Storm......nothing more than an average training session I would suggest and yet more embaressment heaped on our club who are struggling to even justify a position in Super League. Just see it for what it was guys..........an opportunity offered to us to pay part of Storms costs in being over here..........if the opportunity to play them was so advantageous how come no other SL club jumped in to take our place?

5,000 fans x £20 per ticket thats a 100 grand, plus sponsorship if the club had a clue how to get it, plus a mass of London publicity. No clearly the club were right!

The club are bent on thinking small and therefore shrinking small, we are a Championship in disguise and have been since Lenegan went.