Re: Beware the ides of March. : Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:00 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Anyone who thought combining a ground move with our worst ever squad would work out well was deluded. When you add the failure to build any sort of match day experience it seems reckless.

Let's not forget this is a club that has moved many times, we should already be experts at this.

Add in doing this move during a pandemic, not being clear about where games would be played (in 2021) and sharply increasing many season tickets, with no covid related refunds. Given all that I'm surprised crowds have been as good as they have been. I thought about going yesterday for the first time this year but it was either a drive all around the M25, including Dartford twice or public transport, with rail replacement buses in this part of Essex. Probably a two and a half hour journey each way. Neither option appealed. I then learned there were issues on the District line so a good decision.

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:07 pm  

If they offered tickets for £1, I might go not for the rugby, but after reading multiple times how good the food at mypie is from @smithers99, to try one of their specials. But the rugby is not high enough standard right now to justify the effort of getting there.

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:11 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Anyone who thought combining a ground move with our worst ever squad would work out well was deluded. When you add the failure to build any sort of match day experience it seems reckless.

Let's not forget this is a club that has moved many times, we should already be experts at this.

Everything you say here is true. Would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall as these plans came together. I get the arguments for a ground move (although the fact it’s predicated on the nonsense of the authorities of a game where even the best sides rarely get deep into 5 figures telling us we need a better ground when we really didn’t- can’t be overlooked) but how would the discussions on team strength and off field match day experience have gone? “Let’s get a few in from Skolars and hope for the best. What about match day experience chief? Open the gates and let them find the bar. Job done.” I hope we can muddle through to next season still in this league and then do it all over again but in a joined up sensible way.

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:36 pm  

I sense another 2014 season is in the making. Hope I'm wrong!

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:46 pm  

Torbreck wrote:

I sense another 2014 season is in the making. Hope I'm wrong!

Possibly, but there was that win against Leeds !!

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:36 pm  

Torbreck wrote:

I sense another 2014 season is in the making. Hope I'm wrong!

This is worse.
Hughes has nowhere to hide this year. He is 100% responsible, but he doesn't care......he's already said he's off in a few years and is scaling down his input with an inane reference to his son being a "fan" followed by my 5,000 fan figure that I have him to his face in 2009.
For 15+ years he overpaid players, ignored bad coaching runs and ignored any form of marketing, just so he could sit in his seat and watch his team.

His 2026 pipe dream of 5,000 fans is a fallacy.....,he's looking for the exit and Wimbledon kicking us out (1k average won't cover their costs and the bars/food franchises won't open) will be a perfect excuse.

It's not just him though. Loubser was key in this stupid reboot that has failed.....he should go now......

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:49 pm  

orangeman wrote:

This is worse.
Hughes has nowhere to hide this year. He is 100% responsible, but he doesn't care......he's already said he's off in a few years and is scaling down his input with an inane reference to his son being a "fan" followed by my 5,000 fan figure that I have him to his face in 2009.
For 15+ years he overpaid players, ignored bad coaching runs and ignored any form of marketing, just so he could sit in his seat and watch his team.

His 2026 pipe dream of 5,000 fans is a fallacy.....,he's looking for the exit and Wimbledon kicking us out (1k average won't cover their costs and the bars/food franchises won't open) will be a perfect excuse.

It's not just him though. Loubser was key in this stupid reboot that has failed.....he should go now......

Do not forget the Monkey he had a lot to do with the moving from Ealing as he did not think much of the facilities. The monkey has seen the writing on the wall and walked away.

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:38 pm  

wantawin wrote:

The monkey has seen the writing on the wall and walked away.

Are we sure he walked?

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:41 pm  

A usually realiable birdie suggests he walked

Re: Beware the ides of March. : Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:32 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

A usually realiable birdie suggests he walked

Another hire Hughes refused to fire......he really NEVER learns