Quote ="Sibbs Rhinos"The players, the coach, and the CEO i'd imagine, like most other teams. Sinfield I think it was said to the YEP pre-season as have others that finishing top was a target for the team. The challenege cup as eluded this outstanding set of players for years so yes I'd imagine again the players and coach would want that coup. The WCC from a marketing point of view is great to have the tag of 'world champions' so I'd imagine our CEO would have love to have retained it. We have failed in all so far.
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You have imagined a great deal and based your premise upon the results of your imagination.
Quote Ok fair enough a write off is a harsh assessment. But how about extremely lessoned the chances of us achieving anything of note this season? '"
I wouldn't agree with that either. Like I said, many of our previous titles have been won notwithstanding injuries.
Quote The performances of our so called star players to me are hinting of complacency, check out Ryan Bailey's new hoody and T-shirt range if you don't believe me. He obviously has begun to believe in his own hype and the phrase 'he does what he wants' sadly has resulted in him going about the pitch like a loon causing trouble for his own team. '"
Ive seen plenty of effort. I've seen nothing that hints at complacency.
Quote Not quite, plenty of new posters have emerged on this board, posted an opinion which is disagreed with and is essentially hounded out as everything they post from there on in is referenced back to that first opinion. Obviously there are a group of posters who are friends outwith the board who stick up for eachother and this what seems to be ring of posters such as yourself who seem to think can set the standards on the board. You even made a thread about yourself being away and how has equated to the board declining. I.E people are freely expressing their own opinions and not regurgitating the usual rhetoric set by the 'bigger' posters. '"
I'm flattered and insulted. Flattered that you think I set the standards and insulted that anyone would think I could set such low standards.
FWIW, you've mi-interpreted my thread, which was about the Rhinos recent poor results. Also, I post far, far less frequently these days than before. I'll accept I can often be too quick to call an idiot and idiot but life's too short these days and there does seem to be a proliferation of idiots on here, always has been. I assume that is someone can switch on a PC, get net access and pluck up courage to post an opinion online they can handle a robust response.
Quote Well depending on how you'd like to measure it if we look at it as:
Turnover? Check
Profit? Check
Large attendances? Check
Ability to produce international standard players? Check
Seen as a big game to the other teams? Check
Won large amounts of trophies recently? Check'"
Remind me again what the problem is?
Quote Whilst not being THE biggest or THE best I'd say it's not unreasonable to call us one of the biggest or one of the best teams in the world. As of which means it's not unreasonable for the fans to expect better from the high standards set by the club previously. It seems they have become complacent on reach such high success. '"
Fans shouldn't expect anything.
Quote A club of our stature today should expect more than what we are currently being given. It doesn't matter what we were like before the CEO took over; if our CEO wants to delcare that we have the best squad ever then maybe we should put in performances to reflect as such? '"
Did he declare any such thing?
Quote It would seem wrong, I'm sure many others feel the same way that a band of posters who frequent the board seem to dictate what opinions can be held and by whom. yes maybe people should 'man up' but is it worth the hassle if they get constantly hounded for holding a differing view of something. Not worth their time. '"
I'm not the most sensitive of souls but boo frikkin hoo. Like I said, there seems to be an element of "if you disagree with me you're a bully". Just let your opinions speak for themselves. So far, nobody has called you a fekkwitt or or questioned your style of posting yet you have made several irrelevant defensive comments about others# style of posting. Give it a rest.
Quote Well yourself for a start, as most of the posters who believe everyone only cares about the last few weeks of the season. As stated before whilst the recession will be a contributory factor as will others I do believe the lack of apparent effort or consistency shown by the team in the regular season for whatever reason is putting people off going to watch us. Again, I don't see how retaining the likes of Kirke or the lack of progress on the new south stand is going to aid to the situation either. Whilst entirely possible we may go on to win another GF the signs so far do not look good considering I'd say the 3 big games we've played this year have been lost. The WCC, challenege cup and magic weekend fixture V wigan which essentially ends our league hopes. We can assume that the trend of previous years may continue but I've seen little to suggest this year will result in the same outcome.'"
I've seen plenty to suggest that when push comes to shove this set of players and heck, even this coach (whom I am not a fan of) will be there or thereabouts.
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