Re: Protest after the Leeds ma...

[pedro]

I was told that Saints employ wives eg tea lady on £50k a year. All specualtion but it may be done.

[Fraggle]

pieater-alex posted:

DaveO posted:

pieater-alex posted:

But whose fault was it we were in a relegation battle?

Millward? Then who signed Millward?

It all comes back to lindsay one way or another.

That is ridiculous.

Dave

Elaborate on this then.

At the time that Mildred was brought into the club, (almost) everyone was praising ML for being able to bring in someone who was at that time the top coach in SL. Someone with his record should never have presided over a team like ours, with the resources and players we had, basically freefalling down the league as if we'd completely given up. Me, I never liked Milward but just because of his personality, but even I couldn't really criticise his coaching record. No-one, least of all ML, could have predicted our collapse as it happened. You bring in the best coach, and expect the best results. That didn't happen.

ML was roundly condemned for having the untried Denis Betts as coach, but basically he couldn't win. People complained when we had a novice coach, so he got us the best in the league. People are now complaining about him getting the best in the league... what's he supposed to do?

[GeoffN]

pedro posted:
I was told that Saints employ wives eg tea lady on £50k a year. All specualtion but it may be done.

Unlikely. The RFL rules specifically cover jobs for player's relatives.

[Laura-xo]

pieater-alex posted:


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How fake are them claps!!

[jinkin jimmy]

Fraggle posted:

pieater-alex posted:

DaveO posted: That is ridiculous.

Dave

Elaborate on this then.

At the time that Mildred was brought into the club, (almost) everyone was praising ML for being able to bring in someone who was at that time the top coach in SL. Someone with his record should never have presided over a team like ours, with the resources and players we had, basically freefalling down the league as if we'd completely given up. Me, I never liked Milward but just because of his personality, but even I couldn't really criticise his coaching record. No-one, least of all ML, could have predicted our collapse as it happened. You bring in the best coach, and expect the best results. That didn't happen.

ML was roundly condemned for having the untried Denis Betts as coach, but basically he couldn't win. People complained when we had a novice coach, so he got us the best in the league. People are now complaining about him getting the best in the league... what's he supposed to do?

Close the door on the way out!

[ancientnloyal]

People still banging on about this?

[ian.birchall]

Fraggle posted:
2005 was a disappointment, but we only had half a team for a half a season and a coach who was not suitable for our club. That same coach presided over some terrible signings and lost the dressing room in the early part of last season, and reaching halfway through the season in bottom spot basically meant that last season was a write-off as well. Were you one of the few of us who hated Millward even when he was Wigan coach? We were very few in number, but we were proven right in the end. Blame Millward for last year, not ML.

Fraggle, glad to see you are on the TAP wagon now. I remember when I was the ONLY one who was down on TAP, he was responsible for everything, the surge in illegitable births the pensions crisis, this years flooding and if I believed in it, which I don't of course, Global warming or as the BBC now insist on referring to it with this lousy summer climate change.

[Fraggle]

ian.birchall posted:

Fraggle posted:
2005 was a disappointment, but we only had half a team for a half a season and a coach who was not suitable for our club. That same coach presided over some terrible signings and lost the dressing room in the early part of last season, and reaching halfway through the season in bottom spot basically meant that last season was a write-off as well. Were you one of the few of us who hated Millward even when he was Wigan coach? We were very few in number, but we were proven right in the end. Blame Millward for last year, not ML.

Fraggle, glad to see you are on the TAP wagon now. I remember when I was the ONLY one who was down on TAP

I beg to disagree, Ian. You will not find anywhere on this website any positive comments about IM from me. I stated at his first game in charge that I would not, and would never join in any kind of "Ian Millward's Barmy Army" chant, and remained true to that throughout his tenure. I wasn't quite as blatant in my dislike as you, but there's no bandwagon-jumping from me, I was thoroughly against his appointment from the start.

But isn't it nice to be proven right when things go wrong...!

[Fraggle]

jinkin jimmy posted:

Fraggle posted:
what's he supposed to do?

Close the door on the way out!

As an honourary scouser, he probably nicked the door when he left...

[Matthew]

Fraggle posted:

jinkin jimmy posted:

Fraggle posted:
what's he supposed to do?

Close the door on the way out!

As an honourary scouser, he probably nicked the door when he left...

More like broke it down when he burgled the place!