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| Quote ="Eastern Wildcat"We're not down yet, but need to turn things round really quickly, both on and off the pitch.
Firstly, we need that investor, sooner rather than later. Ideally someone who is willing to invest a little more what MC has, Ken Davy levels are a pipe dream right now.
If that investor comes in, then we need to bring in a knowledgeable right hand man, who knows the sport, players, and who to bring in that would fit into the team. Also just ad importantly, knowing when to offload a player.
Personally, though, I don't think it's necessarily the end if we went down.
We do have, and its clear to see dead wood in the squad. Don't all players become free agents. I don't think we'd get many takers at the minute, but at the same time, apart from our home grown players, I wouldn't be interested in keeping many, so the big earners would be off our books.
Added to our young players, and a choice selection of current home grown players in our squad, some shrewd signings, then we could have a competive squad.
Salford (twice), Castleford (twice), Huddersfield and Hull KR have all gone down and come back stronger. I'm also old enough to remember Wigan's stranglehold on the sport at the end of the 80's. At the start of that decade they weren't even in the top flight'"
Most of the team is dead wood let's hope we get rid .Think you will get more fans ,coming to watch a young team in the Championship If we go down the same root of bringing in old players it will kill us revamp ground or not
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| Quote ="alegend"Most of the team is dead wood let's hope we get rid .Think you will get more fans ,coming to watch a young team in the Championship If we go down the same root of bringing in old players it will kill us revamp ground or not'"
Problem will be keeping hold of the best young players and maintaining the structure to bring more through. We will instantly top up the squads of the likes of Hull KR.
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| I think should try to come to a deal with some of our dead wood. Offer them to championship clubs where they might make a difference. If we are going to lose every week we might as well do it watching our home grown youngsters
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| Quote ="Hopwood"I think should try to come to a deal with some of our dead wood. Offer them to championship clubs where they might make a difference. If we are going to lose every week we might as well do it watching our home grown youngsters'"
I agree with your sentiments but we shouldn't give up yet!
A full meeting is needed at the club with MC and JC telling the players what is expected. I believe MC held such a meeting before and told the players his door was open to players who didn't want to remain at the club.
The time has come for such action . It's true there are enough games left to avoid relegation but I see not even a glimmer of hope for a win yet.
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| Quote ="1315trinity"I agree with your sentiments but we shouldn't give up yet!
A full meeting is needed at the club with MC and JC telling the players what is expected. I believe MC held such a meeting before and told the players his door was open to players who didn't want to remain at the club.
The time has come for such action . It's true there are enough games left to avoid relegation but I see not even a glimmer of hope for a win yet.'"
I’m not sure there are many if any that don’t want to be here, the problem is that some just aren’t good enough. And lets be honest if this is to be some of those players last year as a full time pro on a decent contract then they aren’t walking away from it.
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| The problem now even if they find someone with financial strength albeit this is something we have singularly failed to do where are the players coming from. The overseas quota is full and the domestic players of the quality we need have been signed up. I regret we are stuck with the players we have with the odd short term loan because that was the choice we made.
I see not surprisingly that our coach believes we will turn things around unfortunately when is the question because the season clock is ticking.
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| You’ve certainly missed the guidance of Chris Chester. As director of rugby he has been instrumental in most of all our big signings at Leigh.
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| Quote ="CHEADLE LEYTHER"You’ve certainly missed the guidance of Chris Chester. As director of rugby he has been instrumental in most of all our big signings at Leigh.'"
He wasn't our Director of Rugby. He was our head coach and he failed in his duties for a significant time. So we're not missing him at all!
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| Quote ="The Avenger"What’s happened to the money raised from the share sales, apparently the club were amazed at the take up by fans and more significantly there was reports that the Full Share, £50K I think, also had loads of interest
Where are we with that'"
Yes, I'd love to know where my money has been spent. NEVER AGAIN
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| To all those I've had a go at re our 2 at the top, my humble apologies, you were right. They ARE running the club into the ground. My trust is gone. This is an appalling deal.
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| To all those I've had a go at re our 2 at the top, my humble apologies, you were right. They ARE running the club into the ground. My trust is gone. This is an appalling deal.
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| Quote ="marc271841"He wasn't our Director of Rugby. He was our head coach and he failed in his duties for a significant time. So we're not missing him at all!'"
Perhaps that’s where you went wrong, he should have been director of rugby!!
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| Quote ="CHEADLE LEYTHER"Perhaps that’s where you went wrong, he should have been director of rugby!!'"
I quite agree. He was always better a step back from the top job .But I doubt Carter or Minards would have backed him.
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| Quote ="CHEADLE LEYTHER"Perhaps that’s where you went wrong, he should have been director of rugby!!'"
I quite agree. He was always better a step back from the top job .But I doubt Carter or Minards would have backed him.
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| Quote ="charlie63wildcat"Yes, I'd love to know where my money has been spent. NEVER AGAIN'"
Well what I heard Charlie is that the club used the money to buy a fancy lawn mower.
Friends of mine bought these £500 things, which are not shares. I have bought shares in the past and was an inch away from doing the same. SO GLAD I DID NOT>
In fact I still feel cheated and foolish about buying season tickets now
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| Quote ="CHEADLE LEYTHER"Perhaps that’s where you went wrong, he should have been director of rugby!!'"
He's your Director of Rugby because he was an incompetent Head Coach here. At the time of his appointment with us he was assisted by a DoR - John Kear. He was never employed to be a DoR and is only at your gaffe cos he wasn't very good at his original job. You're clearly on the wind up. But suggesting Chris Chester would make any difference to our current situation is just bloody stupid.
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| Quote ="marc271841"He's your Director of Rugby because he was an incompetent Head Coach here. At the time of his appointment with us he was assisted by a DoR - John Kear. He was never employed to be a DoR and is only at your gaffe cos he wasn't very good at his original job. You're clearly on the wind up. But suggesting Chris Chester would make any difference to our current situation is just bloody stupid.'"
He was at the game on Friday
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| Pretty sure Chester was at the Wakey match on Friday, ground floor of the flats.
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| Quote ="PopTart"He was at the game on Friday'"
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| Quote ="Lurker"Pretty sure Chester was at the Wakey match on Friday, ground floor of the flats.'"
Hope he paid for his ticket, or are we going back to giving out freebies
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| Quote ="Eastern Wildcat"Hope he paid for his ticket, or are we going back to giving out freebies'"
Well he got a nice pay off even without a signed contract. Same bloke who did that is now bleating that we are short of cash.
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| Quote ="Eastern Wildcat"Hope he paid for his ticket, or are we going back to giving out freebies'"
I'd have given him mine!!!
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| Think the club should have a meeting to let fans air their views. There was plenty of communication when they were asking for share donations.
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| Quote ="BackSeatCoach"Yes I saw that - will keep my eye on it see how it goes down.'"
Well the post has had several views, and some likes so far.
May re post it in line to to the peak traffic times on LinkedIn activity, to try and reach a wider audience.
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| Quote ="Eastern Wildcat"Well, just for the record, I have re shared the statement of Carter stepping down, on LinkedIn, adding in hashtags to link it back to the sport and our club.
Nothing may come of it, but if you don't try, you won't get anywhere'"
Over 1650 views, I don't know in the grand scheme of things how good that is, but it could only take 1.
When I spoke to John Minards about this, he said it was a good idea, but not one that the club had thought of.
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