: Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:15 pm
Northern Lad wrote:
I booed to show my dissatisfaction with the performance, my dissatisfaction with the coach and to show that something needs to change.
I'm not sure i'd class myself as a deluded fool, but I'm not going to sit there whilst the club crumbles before my eyes and clap them off. I know the players are down and unfortunately I don't have a mouth which directs the "boos" direct to McClueless's ears. The club is bigger than one man and he needs to walk or be pushed, the aim of the boo is to show that fans are unhappy....or are we expected to print these discussions off and hand them to Mr Hood and Steve to show our dissatisfaction?
It doesn't make me big or clever that I booed but regarding the question, what did it ever change...hmm well i guess some would argue that on occasions it helped move a coach/manager on.
Well you can do whichever you wish NL, as I said you paid your brass and the choice is yours. Personally, and I`ll admit to being of a generally optimistic disposition, I`d rather do something which will have a positive result effect rather than undermining the team.
As to Stevie Mac I don`t know what goes on behind closed doors so whether he`s the best or worst coach in the league I really don`t know but one thing is for certain is that he doesn`t have the resources that previous coaches had.
Since CC put all the compensation payment into one years figures and then left, his successor has been fighting a losing battle with the costs of keeping the stadium in a decent state of repair so the chances of buying international class players are pretty thin.
We are supposedly more or less up to the cap (less what was being paid to Tupou and the cash that was available for Greg Bird). I think Bird would have been a great asset, depending on the legal bits of course. However it wasn`t to be.
The big trouble is that spending up to the cap doesn`t get the same quality as it once did. The reasons for that are that with, more or less, the same number of players coming through the system and more clubs are now able to pay the full cap and add in that there are now more clubs in the league. All of which means that the better players can demand more money and get it.
Basically we don`t have the same advantages as a few years back when we lorded it as one of the `big four`. Those days are gone. The cap has done its work. I accept it doesn`t seem to have affected Saints or Leeds, or a very expensively collected Wire outfit either, come to that. Maybe they have problems round the corner
All in all it`s pretty unfair to judge Macca by say comparing his record to Nobby; he doesn`t have the same raw material to turn into a winning side and on top of that he has a great many revitalised clubs in the competition and that`s certainly not his fault.
Even if the boos turn into the `positive` you suggest and Macca leaves (though I`m far from sure the club could afford the compensation anyway), what happens next? We`ll sign another coach who, guess what, has just been fired somewhere else (maybe `cos their fans booed him out, oooh, the irony) and the new coach will clearly have the same constraints as Steve. Of course it might turn out to be an inspired move....or it could be disaster, you never know with a new coach; it`s a bit of a pig in a poke.
