Well if Poching wasn't cheap it makes MC/JM look incompetent - why on earth would you pay "Head Coach" money for a UK based assistant coach?
I haven't criticised Evans,its an observation of the type of players the budget allowed Poching to look at.Weve basically been shopping on Ebay hoping we pick up an absolute bargain.This is the budget that MC left Poching with after backing Chester for too long.
Carter knew what the playing budget was for this season (my word he told us often enough how reduced it was),so in my opinion it was a disaster waiting to happen putting an inexperienced /untested head coach in charge of a squad lacking in depth and quality.
Why is it relevant if i would continue to support them ?
For the record - yes i will, the club will be here long after MC /JM have departed.

Poching was either the cheap option or he wasn’t.

If he was, it’s poor judgement that sealed relegation, when you think of the money wasted on poor players that could have gone to a quality coach.

If he wasn’t, it’s even worse judgement, as he was always going to take us down. If that happens at a higher price, then that’s inexplicable.

Our fate was sealed the moment he was offered the contract. I feared it then and said so, butwanted dearly to be proved wrong.

I don’t want it to seem like i don’t like Poching. I’ve fond memories of him in his playing days for us.

Something is clearly not working at the moment. Poching may be up for the fight but I hope the players are too. We need to find a way to fight through this.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with perennial optimism… it’s the thing that facilitates my getting up every morning… opening my emails each day… reading the news… watching (or as t has been for most of this season… listening to games in the middle of the night) my team play sport… looking at my grandkids growing up… watching my wife recover from neurosurgery… perennial optimism has kept me going in the hardest of times!

Much of the rest of your post makes sense… but to isolate and bully someone because they are optimistic… sorry mate that’s not on!

Of course there's room for optimism, Spooki, and I'm glad that you've had a lot of good luck and nice things happen in your life that have made you so, but there'e "optimism" ie "hope" and there's that other type of optomism that could just as easily be termed "in denial". There are one or two posters on here that fall into the latter category and despite all the negative evidence put before them still cannot accept the truth and I'm afraid Pop Tart, historically falls into that type. as Trinity fans we all "hope" that they will do well, and, particularly this season, will escape the drop, but realistically it seems to all realists that it is unlikely that we will survive.
I can categorically state that I'm not a bully, and I'm sure that PT and others of that ilk can take a little friendly mickey taking. Bullying is a very strong term and should not be used lightly!!!

Don't worry, I don't feel bullied.
Patronised maybe.

You mix up denial with fact checking.
I've clearly said when I see things that are wrong, however I don't like the pile on from the posters who only post when things are going wrong.....and just make things up in hindsight just to look like they know something. They clearly don't.
Or just ignore the fact that no one has credible alternatives but blames the club for their decisions.

No one goes out there to lose a game. All this slagging off players, and coach and board is sometimes by people who are upset and sometimes by people who don't care about the club and just enjoy putting people down. And I hate that.

By and large I agree with what you say. I'm not one who only posts only when things are going wrong. Ninety per cent of my posts on here tend to be light-hearted or mickey taking and nostalgic points re matches and players long gone. I tend to not get involved in slagging players, coaches or directors, and technical matters of the game. I leave the latter to those who like to analyse tactics etc. I just go along and watch the game. After watching WT for 66 years I thing it goes without saying that I DO care for the club.

The problem is they are going wrong the majority of the time and you don’t need hindsight just look at our last few seasons. I am sure they do not go out to lose but they do even when the circumstances are in our favour,
I am angry because we need not be in this position but I am not seeing anything that’s going to change it.
I wonder if those running the club have the inclination or finances to get us out of the championship if we are relegated.

PT and anyone else who went to KR yesterday have my upmost respect. I gave up on away games a while back.
They are at least doing their bit to try and support the team through an horrendous time, I salute them.

Watching right in front of me Coote’s waltzing through 6 players each looking at each other as if it’s not their job without a hand being laid on him is hardly Poching’s fault or MC’s for that matter , they are supposedly fighting for their super league survival yet looked to all intense and purpose like a team having a pre-season friendly. Does it really Need Poching to tell them the gravity of the situation that we face or are they so isolated from the media that they don’t know what’s happening at the club and what relegation means to us and also them to a large degree.No denying that Poching is a lovely man but the softly softly approach has got us to this point of virtually no return and has had a detrimental effect on the teams efforts , they have obviously seen him as a soft touch and continued on a downward spiral because there doesn’t seem to be any consequences for poor performances. Going down to me seemed a horrendous proposition a while ago and a dismal prospect,but if that’s what it takes to sort the wheat from the chaff , so be it , because what I witnessed yesterday ,they simply aren’t up for the fight ,but I’ll support the club whatever .

Oh thank you, i went after spending 8 hours driving on saturday to watch the academy, i did actually go thinking we would win but sadly it wasnt to be.i wouldnt be as bothered if kr where good but truth is they where dire too