Re: Marc Green - Man of the Year : Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:28 am
M@islebugs wrote:
We may have fallen off the top of the Empire State Building under Green, but first Hood, and then Omar under impossible conditions from the the Rugby League 'family' took the club to a party on a very narrow ledge on the 86th floor, gave it copious amounts of LSD, and whispered 'you can fly'.
Green could have sacked Cummins sooner but we got relegated by 11 points, which not counting the 6 we got taken away would have put us in the top 8 - truly fanciful notion given the number of players either FC or Jimmy had at his disposal. Why would any club lend us decent props mid season, when there are so few in the league anyway? As soon as Mullally played well, Hudds took him back.
I can't see how where we are is Green's fault. Conversely, he's put a strong backroom and squad together given salary cap constraints and having looked at the squads at the likely bottom end of SL I think certainly one, possibly two are beatable. As other have said, considering the years of shambles, outright malfeasance, squandering of the club's asset base, bizarre involvement of the RFL lending previous BOD's money they had no chance of ever paying back, just no name a few, I think the present set up is just about OK.
Green could have sacked Cummins sooner but we got relegated by 11 points, which not counting the 6 we got taken away would have put us in the top 8 - truly fanciful notion given the number of players either FC or Jimmy had at his disposal. Why would any club lend us decent props mid season, when there are so few in the league anyway? As soon as Mullally played well, Hudds took him back.
I can't see how where we are is Green's fault. Conversely, he's put a strong backroom and squad together given salary cap constraints and having looked at the squads at the likely bottom end of SL I think certainly one, possibly two are beatable. As other have said, considering the years of shambles, outright malfeasance, squandering of the club's asset base, bizarre involvement of the RFL lending previous BOD's money they had no chance of ever paying back, just no name a few, I think the present set up is just about OK.
I agree.
Some times a house becomes so rotten that it must be torn down and rebuilt from the foundations up. I'd say Marc Green has done a good job of that so far. Staying up last year was always going to take a miracle that we just didn't have. We lost 3 of our best players in the opening month of the contest leaving our already thin squad heavily depleated in key areas, were docked 6 points which put us behind the 8 ball all season and had massive problems off field. Marc Green has steadied the ship, brought in people who know what they're doing and what needs to be done to maintain the club and help in thrive. He and his team have done everything they can to ensure we're in pole position to go back up into SL at the first time of asking. I really can't see what more could be done.
