No.
MC/JM hold the purse strings.
They appointed a cheap option of Poching with no head coach experience, rather than have the foresight to invest in some experience.
MC was too pally with Chester and big lumps of cap were taken up by wastes of money in eg: Gaskell/Lineham.
This left Poching (cheap option) looking for bargain basement players: Sid/Evans/Minns/Davetanivalu - hoping they may plug the gaps and add some squad depth.Even now they are trying to fix it with bringing Hulls 7th choice prop in/ an NRL player trying to resurrect his career/Butler.
Whether we would be in the fight or not without MC is totally irrelevant and it certainly doesn't buy them a free pass forever, because in essence all he has done in is give us a stay of execution.
MC has treated supporters with contempt, yes he loves the photo op clearing snow..............but his "love in " with Chester has ultimately led to the position we are in.

Nail on the head

PT will be waking up in the morning' rubbing his/her eyes and realising, "It was all a wonderful dream". The roses around the door will all have wilted; the little stream running through the garden will have dried up. the little country cottage will really be a terrace house on St Catherine street, that pretty garden will have a colliery spoil heap at the bottom and next season's opening fixture fixture will be Batley away. Oh, and Willie Poching will still be coach.

Waiting for the sarcastic reply redscat

No. The club is not dead and won't be. Relegation doesn't mean that

Great that you are all having such a great day proving who can think of the most depressing thing and just making things up to prove everything is even more rubbish than it already is.
I am depressed because the club I support is struggling. So leave me out of your little back slapping fest.

Who?? Moi??

Quote Sacred Cow="Sacred Cow"Willie is blaming the referee for this one. First sign of a desperate coach trying to save his neck.'" WP interview on the attached, about 3 hours 40 mins in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0chd8xb

Quote Sacred Cow="Sacred Cow"Willie is blaming the referee for this one. First sign of a desperate coach trying to save his neck.'" WP interview on the attached, about 3 hours 40 mins in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0chd8xb

How do you know WP was a cheap option?
Chester bit ok he should gave gone sooner.
Sorry but what’s Evans done wrong?
Nothing.
The coaches and players are to blame for our predicament. Some of them are not bothered.
But even if we’re relegated I will support them - will you?

It isn't.

How many times did we go down in the 80's?

We came back

Will we lose players? Yes

Do we need to lose players? Yes

Have all our players been poor? No

Answer = be smart and fight tooth and nail to keep those that have done us proud. Tip, these are home grown.

If I recall, we wemtcto Catalans in round 2 or 3,with a very young squad, and went towards to toe with them, for 80 minutes.

Try and keep them, added with a bit of experience, but the right ones.

The likes of Jowitt, Crowther, Batch are the first names on the team sheet, let the likes of Miller, Kelepi, Lino and big D go. They're no better, but are probably on near double that of those with heart.

Sorry to have a go at you PT, but you really have made a rod for your own back with your perennial optimism. It doesn't make anyone who's a realist any less of a fan of Trinity for being so.
I can understand your depression. I'm depressed too, but as words of comfort, hopefully, I can tell you that having been a supporter of WT for 66 years and also a season ticket holder of Barnsley FC for many years in that time I've seen both clubs relegated many times, and whilst the initial feelings of realisation that you are going down isn't very nice, it's amazing how quickly you begin to adapt to the new life supporting a club in a lower division. For a start you can attend a game with optimism (you'll like that), in the knowledge that you might even win a game and not be resigned to yet another defeat. I've noticed that the style of football is more free and easy, and watching a game in a lower division is even more enjoyable than the intensity of Superleague or Premier League. Also, the experience of winning promotion is a great feeling.
Perhaps if you do continue to watch Trinity in the coming season ( which I'm sure you will), it's not all doom and gloom, but there again there's no room for those permanent. rose-coloured glasses.