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| These are my personal thoughts which I feel I have to air to see how others feel.
I never thought from the start that Paul March was the person to take us forward as coach.
As a player he was an asset with his experience at the level we were playing at.
In my opinion he has no control over the players as a coach.
From what I can remember 4 players have gone on holiday etc during this season.
Paul White, Josh Lynham, Jesse Sherrife and James Feather (captain)
I don't buy into that these players are only part time.
They have a commitment to the club and supporters for around 8 to 9 months per year.
They play for a team and a club they are not individual sportsmen.
How James Feather the club captain can be away for the most important part of the season is beyond belief.
People say he is committed to the club, he didn't show too much commitment after his testimonial season by signing for Hunslet.
Whatever the reasons he came back for I don't know but he left the club and now after leaving the team for the play offs I think its time for him to go.
The team has become too familiar and too many players are not good enough to take us to the next level.
Ive spoken to Gary on a few occasions and he seems a nice person but he is either nieve or stupid to keep making comments that we have a 5 year plan to be in Super league.
The first time he said after the 5 year period was up we were in the bottom division.
1 year into the next 5 year period we are hanging on a thread to gain promotion.
At the moment we are re signing players not bringing in new faces with the exception of the ex Hunslet player.
Adam Brook is a 20 yo half back with no experience in first team rugby, if we were going to try and show the supporters what our intensions were we would have done what Workington Town did and sign an experienced half back like Jarrod Sammut who has done wonders for them and turned there results around.
The only way the board can get the backing of the fans in my opinion is to let Paul March go and have a clear out.
I would rather see us rebuild in Championship 1 than go into the Championship and get beat week in week out with the same squad of players.
the players I would keep would be Gabriel, Rikki Sherrife, Lawton, White, Handforth, Jode Sherrife, Pursglove, Rawlings, Ash Lindsay, Matt Bailey, Barnes, Lynham, Darville, Kelly.
I don't know the situation with the loan players but we certainly need a Full back, another strong hard running centre, an experienced half back, 2 or 3 big hard props, 2 second rows and a coach that demands commitment and discipline from his players .
I would love to see Tyler Dickinson stay.
I only support the team I don't throw money in as a sponsor and I do know that we don't have bags of money floating around.
Im also pretty sure the board have the club at heart and keep it running in a financially stable way but please stop making false promises that are way off the mark.
You can make statements to fans with your actions regards staff and players then fans will take you more serious.
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| Oportunity, professional team, put the blame squarely where it lies. March picked the team of sacrificial lambs in that game. Even if by accident he had managed to pick the most effective synergistic team out of our entire roster of players we would have lost. Perhaps some of his superstar mates were not up for getting battered by a much better team and were happy to have the get out clause of the must win game at Workington. So much for that strategy. In truth I think you are showing a large degree of disrespect to the lads that gave there all in that game
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| Apologies the next game was whitehaven, the meaning is the same.
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| My original point was regarding March and as I said earlier I'm not sure if it was the coach or the club that made the decision but someone did. Also I thought I made it clear that the application and effort of the young blokes on the night was not in question. It was the fact they were put in that position in the first place I have an issue with.
Putting your reserves out in a cup quarter final just shouldn't happen in professional sport. Whatever the circumstances.
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| Reserves? How many of the Keighley team were not first team squad members? My post made it clear that I do not believe that the team that played that day was our 'theoretical' best but I know of no sport in which in a competition the team selection is made by someone outside the club based on their perception of the teams players abilities and seek to maximise it in specific games. The choice of team that day was down to Keighley,be it the 'coach' or the club in a broader sense. Tactical choices are part and parcel of nearly all sports, my issue is that March is not able to coach players, he is only able to plck them. When we were relegated it was mooted that he would have to manage with a severely curtailed number of players due to financial constraints, circa 22. Can anybody tell me how many players we have had this season? How many of these players have been acquired from supposedly better clubs rather than bringing on the less experienced players that we already have. Is this an admission that March is incapable of improving young players and that he has to trawl the higher level clubs for fringe players hoping that they are the finished article having benefitted from better coaching, ln the true sense of the word, that he is incapable of providing?
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| I think the club need to make changes on and off the field to move forwards;
1) Community
Firstly Just ask yourself, why did Cougarmania really take off in 1992?? Community, the club became this common bond between people in the town, it was our club. Mick O'Neil and Mike Smith came up with all these ideas to get the club involved with the community, things like the trip to wembley really stood out, the cougars cubs had at least 1 team at every age group between under 8s and 18s. Joe Grimma organised an annual interschools rugby tournament at under 8s and under 11s. later on Jason Ramshaw and Matt Foster coached the under 16s Keighley schools side. Surely this is something the club look at again, I have mentioned this on here before but I am sure there are some things which could be mutually beneficial between the club and Keighley/Craven college, e.g. maybe getting the students who do the media courses to put the programme together, it would give the students experience of actually working on a publication and to deadlines and the cost of putting it together could be covered by sponsorship. Similar things could be done with the website etc, getting local people involved in the club and people who may not have shown interest in the past may start showing up to see what they are playing a part in. Also, I think the club needs to be more invovled in the youth set up, as I believe that what was the Cougars Cubs has gone and is now being run by Keighley albion.
2) Match Day experience
As someone has already mentioned on this forum, there are things like the stand up bingo which would just appear to have disappeared but if people are turning up to watch and getting more of a day out than just the match they are likely to come again, and if there are other things going on around the ground, there are things that can probably be done quite inexpensivley and make some money off, things like facepainting for the kids or maybe a wooden board with some holes in it, and people have to pay £1 for 3 chances to throw the ball through one for a prize. Jam on top based on dalton lane is a rehearsal studio for musical groups, we could even look at doing something with them to get some live music before the matches, again this all comes back to getting the community involved.
I am going to have to cut this short as my lunch hour is coming to an end, I will post the rest of my thoughts this evening.
JP
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