We are a team that got relegated last year after massively underperforming.
We have been underperforming since relegation (bar one good result in the Cup).
I would imagine Millward has been signed to try and stem the tide, we signed a player who is excellant for Public Relations and offers some experience to a vastly inexperienced squad.
It will take time and anyone expecting a play off tilt or a guarenteed cup final needs to perhaps lower expectations for now, there are far too many good well run & organised clubs in this division for us to 'overtake them' based primarily in signing 1 top class coach and 1 top class player.
Yes we may get lucky and get on a confidence roll and win the cup games (with a helluva lot of luck and work) but personally this season is for finishing higher than last and slowly rebuilding a club that is misfiring on & off the pitch and has been for a few years.
The encouraging thing for me Sunday was the amount of dropped ball / lack of concentration that can be worked on by the coaching team and things can be changed - we played awful, York played well, we lost by 1 point.
Last year that would have been a 40 point hammering as the team would have lost its way once things fell apart.
The club has sold the team to the public based on Millward and Paul and put bluntly neither are miracle workers (although Millward has previous of doing this
) and it will take time, the club itself though in the meantime has to start promoting matchdays and doing a lot more off field to increase attendances as I fear on field we may struggle to use that as a selling point until we get all our injured players back and the new ones gell in.
However lets not forget its very very early days, so lets look forward rather than back, yes sunday was poor , yes I question the wisdom of spending so much for little enjoyment , but it isn't all doom & gloom and hopefully the club and Basil and his team will slowly turn things around.
You cant help but feel disheartened after a performance like that though but after a day or two you get over it and onto the next game.By the way can i say how welcome my friends and me were made in the bar ,we only wanted a hot drink but they took us to sit with the diners 
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) and it will take time, the club itself though in the meantime has to start promoting matchdays and doing a lot more off field to increase attendances as I fear on field we may struggle to use that as a selling point until we get all our injured players back and the new ones gell in.
cheers to the Gateshead thunders pants too 
look where we are again. We deserve better - small clubs like Batley & Dewsbury will turn out teams better than us this season on home crowds of 400-800 -surely that isn't right! well said, couldn't of put it better myself. 
