Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:54 am  

Prince Buster wrote:

Just digressing but I dont recall seeing programmes on sale for a while now. Didnt think anyone bought them anymore

Maybe there's no call for them now if people just buy a season ticket and never turn up to a game, fwiw I enter the ground through the cemetery and see them selling them on the corner opposite the back of the Con club, useless imfo for the non attenders

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:30 pm  

burtonsrlfc wrote:

Yes we do still sell them. I see an short old chap walking round selling them. He shouts, 'get your programmes here, team sheets included' I have only seen him on the West tho

Comes round seats as well

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:35 pm  

vastman wrote:

Carter has a strong personality and self belief, a lot of the anonymous SMALL poster on here can’t deal with it. They claim they want strong leadership then bleat like sheep when they get a version of it they don’t like.

Despite what some chose to believe Carter does not buy the players, train them or pick them, that is the coaches job. Ditto the players, how they play is down to them.

They don’t perform then MC doesn’t have a good product to sell.
He’s a financial wizard but until the team performs he’s limited.

As for invest to accumulate you still need the cash to start with, we clearly don’t!

That said he’s a canny CEO, Although I don’t think we have a pile of cash laying around we are rather nicely placed to pick up those gems the World Cup always throws up. Three overseas players, that’s a lot of wiggle room for WP. I may have been critical of his selections and tactics but his eye for a player has been pretty good.

Could be fun next year.

POP!

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:01 pm  

I thought putting the word "fans" in inverted commas was unnecessary, because it was clearly a dig at those who moan about squad quality. I understand his frustrations but those "fans" buy tickets and merchandise. A waiter doesn't have to like the diner. They just have to pretend they do to get the repeat business.

Other than that, a good honest appraisal of where we are.

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:18 pm  

PopTart wrote:

We'll have to see about Leigh but as you say, they are going to have to lose a lot of their better players.

Well we’ve kept the majority of the better overseas players and I think all of the non quota that we feel can be a decent squad player at worst next season.

Certainly dont need a complete overhaul that most newly promoted clubs do - Fev for example have a lot of experienced players that would need replacing

Certainly more optimistic than previous seasons, should we get promoted

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:19 pm  

wakeytrin wrote:

Comes round seats as well

I saw yer on the telly at St Helens today

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:08 pm  

Slugger McBatt wrote:

I thought putting the word "fans" in inverted commas was unnecessary, because it was clearly a dig at those who moan about squad quality. I understand his frustrations but those "fans" buy tickets and merchandise. A waiter doesn't have to like the diner. They just have to pretend they do to get the repeat business.

Other than that, a good honest appraisal of where we are.

Exactly this. The press release was spot on until that. I don't want us to lose more any more fans as a club or put people off attending who might not have been and I just think little things like that do have an impact and it can be easily controlled by not being daft. It's nit picking to an extent but it was such an easy thing to not do.

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:53 pm  

Christ. Just looked at the table. How easily could we of been competing for the top 6 with 3/4 games we lost that we shouldn’t of. Scary

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Tue Aug 30, 2022 6:49 am  

Pat Bateman wrote:

Christ. Just looked at the table. How easily could we of been competing for the top 6 with 3/4 games we lost that we shouldn’t of. Scary

Very frustrating and MC makes a point about it in this release. If only the players had pulled their finger out earlier who knows where we could have ended up!

We look like two completely different sides from early in the season, seems to be a running theme with us these last few years unfortunately.

Re: Carter makes statement about season and players leaving : Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:06 am  

charlie wrote:

Very frustrating and MC makes a point about it in this release. If only the players had pulled their finger out earlier who knows where we could have ended up!

We look like two completely different sides from early in the season, seems to be a running theme with us these last few years unfortunately.

Some of what you say applies but I think Willie Poching has had a change of direction as well. It's very notable -that some fringe and younger players have been used in recent games and they've let no-one down.
Perhaps some of these players in their own positions should have been tried sooner. Anyway it's good to see we do have strength in depth after all.