Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Thu May 11, 2017 2:51 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

I do like Keyes, just needs to work on his kicking game, especially his kick offs. But still, a good little player we've got.

Improve our defense and he won't need to do many kick offs.

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Thu May 11, 2017 6:25 pm  

I'm now erring towards ChaLo just being incompetent, only a day after posting that there might be something happening in the background they can't speak of - effectively giving them the benefit of the doubt, they peddle out Duffy to talk to the T&A.

They must think we're all a bit thick, they have done nothing about investing to keep us up this year, and consequently putting the short term future in their own hands, taking control of what they can control - to then tell us all signings for next year are now up in the air because we might be relegated and don't know what league we'll be in.

Will this self fulfilling spiral of doom never end!

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Thu May 11, 2017 8:21 pm  

Bring back Caiseley he's the only one that ever achieved anything..

[Bulliac]

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 9:07 am  

bowlingboy wrote:

Bring back Caiseley he's the only one that ever achieved anything..

Caisley's regime started the problem by spending all the money.

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 9:10 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Caisley's regime started the problem by spending all the money.

OK - bring back the money, large amounts of cash was the only thing that achieved anything!

[Bulliac]

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 9:17 am  

Not sure how you bring back money which has been spent...

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 10:17 am  

I would rather a bit of boom and bust...
than the continual bust we have had for last 5 years.

One can only hope for the "master plan" to be been worked on behind the scenes.

On a Different note I had Frank Whitcombe down as Duffy during the admin, obviously not..

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 10:26 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Caisley's regime started the problem by spending all the money.

But the recent regimes have spent all the money but we have been served up gruel whilst at least Caisley served us Lobster Thermidore. It all points to one thing, that you simply can't run a successful rugby team on gate receipts alone.

[Bullseye]

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 10:57 am  

Back in 1996-2000 it was all fine. We spent our TV money on marketing and built a fanbase. The upkeep of the ground was taken care of by the Council.

Things started to go wrong after the stadium re-development fell through. We then got lumbered with the upkeep of the ground. Add to that the problem that Caisley had budgeted for attendances to keep going up instead of staying static at around 13-14k. That left a black hole that kept growing. Caisley couldn’t plug it and couldn’t find anyone to take over. Nobody has since either.

Whoever runs the club will do so at a loss unless they can get income from sources external RL. Leeds make use of their union angle (we tried and it didn’t come off). Leeds also have some decent facilities they use for corporate functions and by being in Leeds there’s a lot of demand. Less demand in Bradford.

Re: Chalmers and Lowe the conspiracy : Fri May 12, 2017 11:23 am  

Which all points to the fact we need a sugar daddy..