In the spirit of 'gallows humour'...

One upside with crowds falling is we'll eventually trigger the sub-7500 crowd figure clause and start paying a greatly reduced rent.

Rejoice!

Do tell us where you know this from.

As everyone understands, its a flat fee for the KC, anything over 7500 is 50/50. Never ever mentioned sub 7500 gate (infact its an annual total crowd figure, so may change with the extra home game.) rent reductions. Its a first

Only halfway into the season and they were people leaving at half time .

Great post. Agree with everything you say.

Someone sat on the same row as me left when we were 12-0 down. I initially thought they'd got up to go to the toilet or something but they never came back!

The season ended when we lost the cup game. I wasn't a fan of the new league structure when it was announced, but i'm willing to give it a chance now as SL can't continue with only 4/5 clubs having a realistic chance of Old Trafford and the rest just playing dead rubber fixtures.

I've got to agree with ULLFC.

I was one of those with stupid jokes, something i had to do to keep myself entertained.

Only good thing about last night was i took my lad (8 years old) for the first time last night, and he enjoyed it (probably as he didnt know what was going on, but enjoyed it with his mini offy shirt on).

Things need to change at the club. Radders was doing a good job with the kids, send him back there. 1st team job is way to early for him. Bring in a proven coach, sort out a long term plan, stick to it. Let him assemble the squad he wants, the structure he wants, give him the time he needs, not just one season and 10 games which is what we seem to do.

Even if it takes us 3-4 years to get it right, i'd take mediocre til then as long as we can see that we're going in the right direction, going towards the long term plan. Look at other clubs, how they've taken time to grow as a club onto bigger things. Should take our lead from them.

We as fans need to stop thinking we're a top 4 team every year, because we're way off the mark. We are top 6-8 at best. Thats just how it is.

Of course i want us to be winning things, challenging every year, but we need to start from scratch.

And Calm........................

Fantastic post. I've been calling Pearson for a while now, we are ultimately where we are now due to the appointments he's made since he bought the club. It's been poor decision after poor decision. He needs to get a grip before it's to late.

Good argument, only undermined by the comment
"you took away Sunday games so I can no longer attend"

Not really relevant as many people can't make sundays (me included !) and that's nowt to do with the coaching

There is a definite C change at the moment. Through all the crap we have endured since AP took over nobody has really questioned him. It's apparent now that some are starting to do that. That is a concern and one that AP should really start to take note of.

this is a fair point, we are wondering which halfback combo will be playing against rovers next week. in fact we wonder this just about every game. same goes for the props

Appointing Radford has set the club back immeasurably, performance wise I doubt we will get back to the level we were hoping to get to and achieve consecutive top 6 finishes (both close to top 5 IIRC under Gentle) in the next 3 years..
I said this last year about Pearson not having a clue and being a tight wad all mouth no action but got shouted & derided for saying it...

Dear me what great fans we have..not ..Pearson did promise success and even though we lost we had a Wembley appearance and then the really loyal fans..not get Gentle the sack just like the Kear who since the loyal fans..not.. wanted back .Did you think Pearson employed Gentle and Radford to fail??get a grip .Pearson has put a lot of cash into the Club to get a good side and yet again on paper we have but they are not performing.To put that down to the coach after only 12 games in is a joke .Look at salford the great Noble fails with some really class players and you want him here??Andy Last is respected through out RL and to call him shows how fickle and pathetic fans are.I have no doubt that if you asked every supporter to choose the side you would get many combinations.Radford picks a side he thinks best and the players let him down ..its as simple as that.Only Feka was the only forward to come out with any credit the rest were poor .Shaul was the only one in the backs. I hope your distrespectful comments about Pearson dont come back to bite us and we end up with no club because I would not blame him if he said enough is enough.Loyal fans dont think so

The fans didnt get Gentle the sack in fact i suspect the vast majority would have been happy for him to stay. It appears to be that his sacking down to other factors.Noble won half his games and dumped us out of the cup with a team he needed time to gel .Harris has managed 1 win out of 6.
AP has stated more than once that her wont accept us scraping into the 8 every season but with Radford in charge we wont be even bothering the top 8