Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:11 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

The mindset of the club has been shocking for years. It's hardly surprising it crossed over to the players.

It's even less surprising the club is now part time, under performed badly on the pitch last season and has already had to shut one stand at their relaunch due to poor ticket sales.

Quite how anyone thinks that deserves a round of applause is brain blowing.

In all seriousness I doubt very much that any normal, reasonably well rounded player would allocate any time or give a single thought to what’s said on a fans forum. There are a vast number of better things to do in one of the best cities in the world. It’s for us non players to enjoy in between drinking over priced beer.

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:14 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Standards on this forum really dropping. Massive open goal been missed by everyone surely? I’ll start the ball rolling.
“Statler & Waldorf you say? Well we must be muppets to pay to etc. Etc...”
Any more for anymore?

Sorry....only gallows humour allowed here.

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:06 am  

BigTime wrote:

In all seriousness I doubt very much that any normal, reasonably well rounded player would allocate any time or give a single thought to what’s said on a fans forum. There are a vast number of better things to do in one of the best cities in the world. It’s for us non players to enjoy in between drinking over priced beer.

They thinks it’s a dozen old moaners tbh
Got quite a laugh.

Though not so much now … certainly the northern players who have moved on

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:46 am  

Exbronco wrote:

They thinks it’s a dozen old moaners tbh
Got quite a laugh.

Though not so much now … certainly the northern players who have moved on

This old moaner predicted the downfall of the club 15 years ago.......the current crop have removed any sympathy I had for Hughes and the husk he now owns

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:59 am  

If it wasn't for full time training last year most of the home grown players wouldn't stand out in the local leagues, Awful standard of rugby (Individual and collective).

This year will be worse. Its a frightening thought.

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:25 pm  

Are the senior management who made these abjectly awful decisions (part time//move to Wimbledon) part time too, or still suckling on Dave's teat?

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:42 pm  

orangeman wrote:

Are the senior management who made these abjectly awful decisions (part time//move to Wimbledon) part time too, or still suckling on Dave's teat?

Surely Monkey doesn't get paid. He probably gets the profit on 200 shirts

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:36 pm  

BigTime wrote:

The latter I hope. He was a highlight. Suspect he may be playing fullback though.

Looks like his race is run and Broncos are paying for a professional match day announcer according to Twitter. It’s a good thing but makes me a little sad. The guy was a riot.

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:46 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Looks like his race is run and Broncos are paying for a professional match day announcer according to Twitter. It’s a good thing but makes me a little sad. The guy was a riot.

Let's set up a 'bring back the stuttering drunk' campaign.

Re: Social Media and the Monkey : Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:55 pm  

They’re certainly spending time (and I assume money) on making the first game match experience a big deal. The slight lacuna in respect of attracting and retaining fans is whether there has been the same focus on the on-field product, which of course underpins everything. Only a few more days and we’ll see if they’ve got it right.