: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:06 pm  

AaronBull wrote:

The point is, no-one was saying the chairman was great, bad, average or whatever. If Hood went who would take control of the club and sustain it?

Peter Hood has been very clear on making the club self sustainable and not having a board of directors or individual having to support it financially.
The implication behind wanting to replace Mr Hood is that he's holding the first team back with this penny pinching/financially responsible (delete as per prejudice) attitude (look at the number of comments about MacNamara being the cheap option and the number of times the cost of sacking him is brought up). So a serious question for any one wanting Hood replaced is would you like your club to be dependant on the whims of a principal investor?

If you think he's right in making the club self sustaining clearly a important part of his plan, and one of the criteria he's going to apply to any appointment, is does any new coach agree with the long term development plan that aims to remove a reliance on imports (star signing only with the bulk of the squad home grown) which is likely to be a more efficient use of the salary (both cap and available monies) but take much longer.
MacNamara has clearly brought into this and this will only strengthen his position.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:26 pm  

If anybody wants to read my original post with regards to getting rid of Mr Hood you will see that it is not aimed at getting rid of Hood, it is simply a device to get rid of Macca.

[Bullseye]

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:30 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

If anybody wants to read my original post with regards to getting rid of Mr Hood you will see that it is not aimed at getting rid of Hood, it is simply a device to get rid of Macca.

But what if Hood decided it wasn't worth the effort and did go? After all he does all this for no reward.

Unlike head coaches there aren't a posse of club chairman hanging around wanting to appply for the job.

I'm sure Hood would be happy to hand over the reigns to someone who came in wanting to by him out. Unfortunately we've never been able to attract anyone with any real cash to back the club in the boardroom. This goes back years.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:32 pm  

I've said all along, despite what some may think, that the current squad of players is capable enough, but any skill, tenacity and will to win is being slowly strangled out of them by a sub-standard coach. He simply has to go.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:42 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Fancy buying him out?

How much is the club (shares) worth? Does Caisley still have a large interest? What is current turnover like? With a new ground what will future turnover be like?

This might be a good time for someone to buy in

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:33 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

average age of our squad is 23. Including players like Olbison, Donaldson etc. (the ones with squad numbers.) Without these its around 26/27.

Are they in the squad or not?

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:38 pm  

af wrote:

The sad thing is some people actually think this.

Totally agree, although I agree Hood should act, the guy deserves a medal for getting us into the Black.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:32 pm  

I voted no but it was a marginal decision.

I don't know enough about the workings of the club to know how "sustainable" the efforts of Hood et al are regarding ensuring the survival financially, but surely getting rid of the coach at this stage in a season that looks increasingly like it should be (on the field) written off would be financially damaging.

Of course I'm also not privy to any moves regarding a viable replacement and whether they would have any cash to make the playing squad their own - I suspect not given what was reportedly said at the fans forum etc.

What I'm trying to say is that although Plan A obviously hasn't worked this season, I'm not sure there is a Plan B (or whether we could finance one) and that worries me more.

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:44 pm  

Regrettably my answer is YES.
I have stood by Macca for long enough but enough is enough.
We have had to listen to same tosh week after week about 'nearly being there', 'a few things to work on', 'take some positives out of today' and 'we just need to cut out the errors' etc. etc. etc.
The fact is that, week after week, we still make the same unecessary unforced errors, coughing the ball up too easily to the opposition on tackle two or three.
We must also be the MOST INEFFECTIVE and LEAST CREATIVE team in Super League when near to the opposition line, if the forwards can't get over by brute force then we are snookered, in the main our halves are clueless.
Unfortunately the above ultimately now has to be put down to rank bad coaching, we have been working on things since the first day of the season and if anything it has got worse.

CONCLUSION : Yes Times Up!

: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:47 pm  

Sexual Deviant wrote:

... any skill, tenacity and will to win is being slowly strangled out of them by a sub-standard coach. ...

What?

Mac strangles their "skill"? He is strangling their "will to win"??? They would be more tenacious, but for him??????
How does this work, then? Jeffries has great skill really, and would display it all the btime, but instead makes at least 6 MAJOR ricks against HKR but it isn't his fault, as McNamara had somehow leeched the skill that would otherwise have made them all perfect moves out of him?

They get in front in games by a decent margin, eg CAs, but then at half time McNamara strangles this apparent will to win such that they come out strangled and will lose?

Sounds pretty barking to me, and that's regardless of what standard coach he is or isn't.