Indeed.....but when you have a social media guru who wasn't born when most of us first followed the club, a commercial manager flogging shirts because he makes them and an accountant who has happily taken hughes money, wasted it and then blamed everything and everyone else for his failings, combined with an utterly clueless owner, the "FANS" count for little.
I see someone on Total has said that the stadium would be banging with bums on seats.......no Sherlock......it's the missing bums that they should worry about, not the shiny new stadium.....but Hughes never gets it.....ever....he's a doddery old fool.

Statler and Waldorf is quite good compared to some over the last of years

JS. The whiny w***kers

Better stop there

When a professional full time squad finishes 7th of 14 teams behind 5 other part time sides, whilst also attracting the lowest gate of the entire season for that division, I suspect that the player, coaches, backroom staff, commercial and senior management are not to blame in JS's eyes.....just us whiny w#+!ers
That attitude exposes if not underlines what is wrong at the club....but as we don't number enough at games to pay 1 players wages, they obviously only feel gratitude to Hughes. The handful who attended the Thursday night event represent 20% of the remaining regulars.....us whiny lot who number thousands are of no interest.
I see JS is playing at James Bond now in the private security world......delusional is one phrase that springs to.mind......nightclub doorman is another

The mindset of the club has been shocking for years. It's hardly surprising it crossed over to the players.

It's even less surprising the club is now part time, under performed badly on the pitch last season and has already had to shut one stand at their relaunch due to poor ticket sales.

Quite how anyone thinks that deserves a round of applause is brain blowing.

Standards on this forum really dropping. Massive open goal been missed by everyone surely? I’ll start the ball rolling.
“Statler & Waldorf you say? Well we must be muppets to pay to etc. Etc...”
Any more for anymore?

In all seriousness I doubt very much that any normal, reasonably well rounded player would allocate any time or give a single thought to what’s said on a fans forum. There are a vast number of better things to do in one of the best cities in the world. It’s for us non players to enjoy in between drinking over priced beer.

Sorry....only gallows humour allowed here.

They thinks it’s a dozen old moaners tbh
Got quite a laugh.

Though not so much now … certainly the northern players who have moved on

This old moaner predicted the downfall of the club 15 years ago.......the current crop have removed any sympathy I had for Hughes and the husk he now owns

If it wasn't for full time training last year most of the home grown players wouldn't stand out in the local leagues, Awful standard of rugby (Individual and collective).

This year will be worse. Its a frightening thought.

Are the senior management who made these abjectly awful decisions (part time//move to Wimbledon) part time too, or still suckling on Dave's teat?

Surely Monkey doesn't get paid. He probably gets the profit on 200 shirts

Looks like his race is run and Broncos are paying for a professional match day announcer according to Twitter. It’s a good thing but makes me a little sad. The guy was a riot.

Let's set up a 'bring back the stuttering drunk' campaign.

They’re certainly spending time (and I assume money) on making the first game match experience a big deal. The slight lacuna in respect of attracting and retaining fans is whether there has been the same focus on the on-field product, which of course underpins everything. Only a few more days and we’ll see if they’ve got it right.