Of all of the people who have said they wish to keep Millward on I can't see any actual reasoning for this beyond he will be better next year. This may well be the case as he will have a different group of players, however I believe we should judge him on what he has done rather than what we hope he will do.

Millward has been at the club for almost a year and I can't really see any positive impact he has made in any aspect of the on field performance or the off field perception of the club. On the field he vowed to improve our defence and said he was going to change the way we attacked, well our defence has been worse than ever and Millward himself has said our attack has looked boring at times. Off the field people talk of him cleaning up the days of going out on the lash, well since he took over we had the Owen incident over Christmas and the Chase incident, it would be impossible to say Millward is directly responsible for these incidents but if it was his agenda to introduce discipline then he's hardly been successful there.

There has also been the Mathers issue there have been people who have defended Millward on this but I think its clear that one of our biggest rivals have benefited greatly while we have suffered from the way the situation has played out, while also the way that the story was reported in the media hardly made our club look good.

One thing that has annoyed me is that at various times this year Millward has deflected some of the blame for our bad performances to the previous coaching saying we slip back into bad old habits of the previous years at times, however as far as above previous years bad habits are a vast improvement on this years habits, the coach should really be taking some of the blame for this other coaches have and do but Millward seems to have quite an ego.

Actually to be fair to Millward I've just thought of a positive for Millward, signing our best young players to long term deals was a very good move.

The same "decent squad" that spent the full salary cap that finished what, 5th? the year before so Maguire improved the team by 4 league places AND a grand final win, that is instant success.

Your current situation reminds me alot of Wakefield. When Danny Brough left us we struggled to fill the gap and honestly couldn't compete with most sides without a recognised SH. Millward first and foremost needs to conclude whether Rangi Chase is staying or going. Once that's resolved the club can move forward.

It's hard enough competing with the top clubs, but to have your key man and influential player missing makes it impossible. Injuries on top of Ferres & McGoldrink leaving early has put more pressure on younger less experienced players which when out of form is rather hard to cope with.

Get rid of the deadwood or players who don't want to be there and rebuild

The Castleford squad is in for a massive overhaul before the 2013 season and so far the players coming in are an improvement on those leaving and we finally have 2 recognised centres for and first time since 2010! Hopefully next season will see players in their specialist positions rather than having to fill gaps.

2012 - griffin and arundel?
2011 - arundel and Isa?

2012 - Wasn't Griffin known more for been a centre
2011 - Wasn't that Arundel's first full season in the 1st team therefore hardly "recognised".
For 2013 we have two International centres and then Lee Gilmour to cover if needed.