Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:26 am  

I must admit it would be great to see the club undertake some marketing and setting some targets
Another 2500 attending on a regular basis would be a reasonable target to start with.
Do the boxes sell out for all games if not offer a payable draw to all for one or two games free.
Provide a fly on the wall type documentary give one of the players on a weekly basis a vidio camera and show its contence the week after.
Communicate better with the supporters and quit all the doom and gloom permanently.

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Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:54 am  

lampyboy wrote:

I must admit it would be great to see the club undertake some marketing and setting some targets
Another 2500 attending on a regular basis would be a reasonable target to start with.
Do the boxes sell out for all games if not offer a payable draw to all for one or two games free.
Provide a fly on the wall type documentary give one of the players on a weekly basis a vidio camera and show its contence the week after.
Communicate better with the supporters and quit all the doom and gloom permanently.

I think MC does fill any empty boxes with late deals but I like all these suggestions.

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:57 am  

PopTart wrote:

I'm really glad they don't.

Off the top of my head
- Accept relegation and play part time in championship
- Ashurst is too old
- Tupou will never be a centre
- TJ can't tackle
- Whitbread isn't good enough for an overseas contract
- Never play Gaskell again
- Crowther won't make it
- Westerman is too big a risk to sign
- Hall shouldn't play second row
- Tanginoa shouldn't be prop or second row or prop etc
- Poching can't coach
- throw a kid in we've never seen play

Etc etc etc.

We don't know what they know. So it's great to discuss but let's not pretend we/ you know better.

And Brough was a good option till he got injured. And Lineham didn't look a terrible signing at first. It's easy to criticise with hindsight.

Fans get it right occasionally but not often. Coaches do get it wrong but in percentage terms way less than the fans. Every fan deep down thinks he's a coach, even you, but most of us, myself include, bow to the fact that at the very best we are knowledgeable amateurs.

If Poching signs Gale it's because he needs that kind of player, it won't be just to fill a gap. How well he does is up to the player, but one things is for sure is that's what Gale will be saying and sometimes you just have to go with your instinct and trust people Yet posters on here whose only real knowledge of RL is playing it as a kid and watching it for 80 minutes every other week - still know best. Bet they wouldn't read a few science books and then go tell NASA they have it all wrong.

Picking players you like and bagging those you don't is part of the fun of being on a forum - but the minute you start to believe you are right, certainly about players, then you've lost it. With most of us it's only temporary and in my case I may love Lino Mason this time next year, and Poching I'm warming to, it's just venting off steam for most, others seem to have a permanent blind spot and an incredibly high opinion of their own abilities.

You forgot to mention

Kay - can't play hooker

Lyne - will never be a centre

Hampshire - the greatest H/B of his generation

Anakin - the best forward at the club

Then there are the Mystic Meg ones..

The players who we let go who have come back to haunt us. The potential list is enormous I grant you, but the actual list is da da

Gareth Ellis, Westwood and the fat lad at Cas

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Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:03 am  

vastman wrote:

Fans get it right occasionally but not often. Coaches do get it wrong but in percentage terms way less than the fans. Every fan deep down thinks he's a coach, even you, but most of us, myself include, bow to the fact that at the very best we knowledgeable amateurs.

If Poching signs Gale it's because he needs that kind of player, it won't be just to fill a gap. Yet posters on here whose only real knowledge of RL is playing it as a kid and watching it for 80 minutes every other week - yet they still know best. Bet they wouldn't read a few science books and then go tell NASA they have it all wrong.

Picking players you like and bagging those you don't is part of the fun of being on a forum - but the minute you start to believe you are right, certainly about players, then you've lost it. With most of us it's only temporary and in my case I may love Lino Mason this time next year, and Poching I'm warming to, others seem to have a permanent blind spot and an incredibly high opinion of their own abilities.

You forgot to mention

Kay - can't play hooker

Lyne - will never be a centre

Hampshire - the greatest H/B of his generation

Anakin - the best forward at the club

Then there are the Mystic Meg ones

The players who we let go who have come back to haunt us. The potential list is enormous I grant you, but the actual list is da da

Gareth Ellis and the fat lad at Cas

Exactly. I love discussing all that but I'd rather Willie make the actual decisions than me.

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 9:08 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

It didn’t work too well with Lineham we are stuck with him for another two years and I remember many questioned the Brough signing so I guess the club chose not to hear us.

Who was a Chester signing...........

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 9:10 am  

FIL wrote:

So would I...but the wife won't let me have one

You have a wife FIL??
Jesus, she must have the patience of a saint....
......Although I'd have thought she'd actually like to get rid.....
There's hope for us all.....

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 9:21 am  

The Pimp does make the odd suggestion. There is a post somewhere way back where The Pimp suggested that Joey Leilua would be a better signing than Corey Hall.

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 10:04 am  

vastman wrote:

If Poching signs Gale it's because he needs that kind of player, it won't be just to fill a gap. How well he does is up to the player, but one things is for sure is that's what Gale will be saying and sometimes you just have to go with your instinct and trust people Yet posters on here whose only real knowledge of RL is playing it as a kid and watching it for 80 minutes every other week - still know best. Bet they wouldn't read a few science books and then go tell NASA they have it all wrong.

Absolute classic,

[PopTart]

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:30 am  

I bet they would unfortunately

Re: Harsh realities of life : Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:48 am  

Houston……… we have a problem