probably AP's decision

To be fair if any fans know about a chairman who interferes to much and makes decisions behind the coaches back about signings then it will be Rovers fans.

Indeed. moreover, if AP had a conversation with LR and said "Lee, I wan't to change the culture at this club, the customers are fed up of sub-standard attitudes on the part of some players, with that in mind I'd like them all back training before Christmas and to not give the impression that any one of them (whether they are from overseas or were born in HRI),get preferential treatment; if you could see to it then that would be great"

then I'd say AP is doing what organ grinders always do, they call the tune.

He's not dictating tactics, other than to say he wants an equal focus on attack and defense, he's not signing players, he is doing what any CEO does, setting a vision and a set of criteria for success.

If you tell yourself something for long enough,you will end up believing it.

do you wake up every morning and say "I'm funny, relevant and respected by all that know me"?

Yes.

I want to believe in him, as this would mean he was doing a good job for FC. However, until we actually play some games with him in charge then its rather difficult to form an opinion. I'll just sit and wait until the action starts, then I'll have an opinion. Suffice to say I've already bought my pass so I suppose that's giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Good luck Radders, with the uber-critical crowd we have on here, you're going to need it.

Im sure some people on here would be top of the SL and CC & GF winners if they was handed the reigns from AP so people who knock radders or any future coach try getting behind them im sure its no walk in the park, but at the same time there trying to put our team where it belongs challenging for trophys & a bit of consistency.

Everyone will get behind a coach who is capable of doing the job to a good standard. Why should anyone back a coach who isn't just because he's trying hard?

Then your mum needs to stop you talking to yourself while you masturbate.

You can hardly comment on Pearsons edicts when your own chairman lies on a weekly basis:

"We are not a selling club".
"Announcing signings before season passes go on sale is selling the fans short"
"I am stepping down"

Not to mention practically fellating Larvin who turned out to have pockets as deep as a spider's pi55 puddle.

Your right. I told myself you were tool after reading your first post on this forum and have been throughout the next 360. Funny thing is I really believed it after the first.

Go figure.

This.

Its common practice for an owner/chairman/board of a company to give its Management/Managers clear and defined goals to achieve. How the Mangement then go about is up to them as they are employed to carry out the task of achieving the goals set. They might even shock horror sit and discuss what is a realistic goal privately with the owner/chairman/board.

I will give my backing to the club, AP & Radford and at least give the new set up a chance. It may well turn out to be a great call by AP time will tell.

Masturbation and fellatio all in one post, Des really is giving you a tilt this morning isn't he?

If you're going to quote somebody, at least get it right.

Hudgell hardly made a comment on larvin as we all suspected larvin may not be all he made himself out to be.
Your chairman had 6 internationals in the bag and another 3 we will get,lets see if we can remember some of the names,rangi chase,benji marshall,keith galloway,even british players gave you the shove,amor knocked you back to stay at wakey and did it again this year,bateman knocked you back to stay at bradford,still limoux grizzlies wilted and let you have paleaaesina. "In gentle we trust" are you sure? The top 2/4 beckons.

Do you ever write on your own board?? Swear you are annoying.
End of the day, yes we may set ourselves top4 targets. At least we can say that.

If I annoy you,it is purely unintentional.

You can say whatever you want when it comes to setting targets, finish top 4, winnig a trophy etc but in reality it's not going to happen.

Nice to know you got something right.

I can't knock you for acknowledging you are tool.

Back on topic though. Why is targeting 4 more wins than last season so outlandish.

We're targeting top 4, and you're targeting top 8. Both may seem unlikely to the opposing set of fans, but both are ultimately achievable. Super League isn't as strong as we all like to think it is.

Just because you was a one man team with Dobbo, I still think with a partisan crowd at home games, you can scrape the eight. If our young kids equal or improve upon last year - there's no reason we can't scrape 4th.

But that's where your wrong. It is achievable. Yes we may of not finished 4th but that's our owners ambition and since it's his club i think we all can think that also. We have the squad of achieving it IMO but the problem with us is consistency. We beat the good teams an lose to the lesser teams in a way.

As for winning trophies, you need to be in finals to win them which in fact we have been to 4 finals in 8 years and won once. Can't say same for yourselves. Or maybe i should say MAJOR finals.

The top/big 5 clubs are practically set in stone for the foreseeable future, their squads are too strong, the rest of us are fighting it out for 6th and so on.

May as we'll not bother then have we.

But what makes you think the squads being stronger is set in stone? Squads change, and can deteriorate quite quickly. There are also some big losses that can already be seen on the horizon for the top sides, there's no way of knowing for certain how they will cope with them. Wigan have now lost Tomkins, Richards and Mossop on top of their departures the previous year, and O'Loughlin is now in his 30s. Leeds have Sinfield, McGuire and Burrow all approaching retirement age and a good chunk of their pack already there on borrowed time. Wire also have several in their 30s, particularly their main talisman Briers. Saints are going to be going through a fair few changes for a couple of years. Hudds looks about the most potentially stable squad over the next few years, but even their key player can't last forever.

Now it may well be that all of those clubs seamlessly replace those players, but given the quality in question I just don't see how it's possible to be so confident that they all will. There just doesn't seem to be enough players of the required quality available to SL for it to happen.

I'm not saying that we will catch/break the top 5 btw, just querying why you think that nobody can.