Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 10:55 am  

The Avenger wrote:

We should have advertised the coaching position to see who wanted the job for a start!
Maybe we should have kept the coach who had a winning ratio of around 46%
If we’d got a better more experienced coach we might have made more informed decisions on signings and not ended up with a number of players who were unsuitable for the task.
Maybe we could have brought in a coach who already had relationships with players & agents who might have attracted higher quality players.
Maybe we’d have got a coach who player agents knew they couldn’t have his pants down in terms of players offered and the salaries they demand
Maybe we could have got a coach who other clubs were happy to send loan players to because they recognised his quality would benefit their players

See there’s a theme forming here, it stems from the ridiculous decision to sack Willie Poching then appoint an unproven, naive, not ready, limited, uninspiring cheap option to coach what became the worst Superleague team ever!

Maybe we could have played like we did last night just a little more often , then we wouldn’t be having this conversation

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Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:00 am  

The Avenger wrote:

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See there’s a theme forming here, it stems from the ridiculous decision to sack Willie Poching then appoint an unproven, naive, not ready, limited, uninspiring cheap option to coach what became the worst Superleague team ever!

Plenty on here wanted to get rid of Poching too.

Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:02 am  

Kettykat wrote:

Maybe we could have played like we did last night just a little more often , then we wouldn’t be having this conversation

Well getting them to do that is the Head Coach job!

But let’s not get carried away with last nights performance, Leigh we’re poor by their standards and we still shot ourselves in the foot with unforced errors, poor decision making and stupid penalties while Proctor played for about 11 minutes and gained around 11 metres carrying the ball.

Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:04 am  

PopTart wrote:

Plenty on here wanted to get rid of Poching too.

that worked out well didn’t it!

What about all the other points in my answer, you asked a question, I answered in detail, do you have a detailed view

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Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:25 am  

The Avenger wrote:

that worked out well didn’t it!

What about all the other points in my answer, you asked a question, I answered in detail, do you have a detailed view

I haven't got a detailed answer to the rest. I agree with it all.
Though we'll unfortunately never know.

Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:28 am  

Why is it quoted in the press that we will be handicapped with IMG unless we finish top due to a cap on the championship clubs.

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Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:31 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

Why is it quoted in the press that we will be handicapped with IMG unless we finish top due to a cap on the championship clubs.

Unless you show the quote I can't say, but we are no more handicapped than anyone else. Finishing top gives you more points than finishing lower, by 0.11 per position but also 0.25 for GF and 0.1 for 1895 gives you a boost that others don't have.

Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:44 am  

It’s on Wakefield Trinity news under an article by Serious about rugby league.

Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:11 pm  

The incumbents obviously believe the current strategy is working because their plan is to once again go with an even smaller squad which they hope to pad out with short term players both on loan and through dual registration. I guess we are dropping the reserves because we clearly do not have a big enough squad and you can’t expect the academy to fill in.
I hope some of the worshippers of the incumbents can explain the logic to this decision and why they believe it will work. I bet no one at the club realised just how much funding we would lose with relegation because if we had then I guess it may have been possible for even two accountants to spend more on the squad to try to eliminate or reduce this possibility. I guess the phrase “speculate to accumulate” is an anathema to an accountant.

Re: Relegation Confirmed : Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:21 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

The incumbents obviously believe the current strategy is working because their plan is to once again go with an even smaller squad which they hope to pad out with short term players both on loan and through dual registration. I guess we are dropping the reserves because we clearly do not have a big enough squad and you can’t expect the academy to fill in.
I hope some of the worshippers of the incumbents can explain the logic to this decision and why they believe it will work. I bet no one at the club realised just how much funding we would lose with relegation because if we had then I guess it may have been possible for even two accountants to spend more on the squad to try to eliminate or reduce this possibility. I guess the phrase “speculate to accumulate” is an anathema to an accountant.

What would you do to speculate to accumulate then in the current circumstances you posed the analogy what would you do? Not a dig just interested.