Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 12:16 pm  

PopTart wrote:

and yet our board is exactly the same as yours. No-one seems to be happy at the bottom at the moment.
For Wakefield and Widnes it is going to be a long road. Keep the faith guys.

Wakey are, at least, competitive. We are uncompetitive and the club is falling apart at the seams. Steve O'Connor fiddles while Widnes burns.

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 1:14 pm  

It's sad but true but, with this current coaching set up and very average players we will only get worse this season. SOC is in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks we will get 7000 VSH members. The only way this will happen is if he sacks these clowns now, gets a decent coach in and a big name half decent Half Back & Forward in who will help turn these dire performances around. At least if we can compete for 80 mins in every game it will be a step forward! At this rate, and with the current economic climate, he will be lucky if there are 2000 VSH members next season!!!

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 5:00 pm  

Got to face up the reality that Betts & Cullen probably wont be going anywhere, at least for the remainder of the season.

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 5:11 pm  

Paddy_88 wrote:

Got to face up the reality that Betts & Cullen probably wont be going anywhere, at least for the remainder of the season.

That's seems to be the case, Paddy. It will be loving disastrous for next season though, and there goes our stay in Super League for good.

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 7:43 pm  

Pepe wrote:

It will be loving disastrous for next season though, and there goes our stay in Super League for good.

People said that in 2007 when you went bust. Don't sweat it - the RFL aren't interested in results. It's security and the size of the Chairmans wallet that counts.

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 7:55 pm  

littlerich wrote:

People said that in 2007 when you went bust. Don't sweat it - the RFL aren't interested in results. It's security and the size of the Chairmans wallet that counts.

If this is all we continue to offer in Super League, I'm not sure we deserve to stay here. I've been arguing for years that Widnes deserve another shot at Super League and it's starting to look like I may have been wrong.

I think SOC has shown the licence system up for the utter farce it is. Only under the current system could Denis Betts get, and keep, a job as a Super League coach, after an abysmal season in the Championship too?

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Tue May 08, 2012 8:01 pm  

Let's roll forward to August. Crap season in the bin. SOC announces 7 gobsmacking signings for 2013 along with Wayne Bennett as coach. Now who's downbeat?

It's all fixable very quickly and memories will become short in the face of a Man City style shopping spree. And please - don't throw the salary cap at me - it's a sham.

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Wed May 09, 2012 7:56 am  

I live in hope!

We all knew this season was going to be tough. But the team has massively underperformed. Its hard to see where any win will come from. The Saints cup game gave me some hope with a bit of grit and determination shown. Unfortunately the collapse and embarressment of the 62-0 drubbing a few days later brought me back down to earth with a bump! With all the time preparing and training for the Castleford game I thought we'd at least run them close. But again another lacklustre performance. I really hope there is a master plan to recruit quality and have a half decent team in place for next season...

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Wed May 09, 2012 8:54 am  

littlerich wrote:

Let's roll forward to August. Crap season in the bin. SOC announces 7 gobsmacking signings for 2013 along with Wayne Bennett as coach. Now who's downbeat?

It's all fixable very quickly and memories will become short in the face of a Man City style shopping spree. And please - don't throw the salary cap at me - it's a sham.

Aint gonna happen Rich.The club don't do big signings to get bums on seats.They seem to prefer mediocre signings and still expect bums on seats.I think the term is having your cake and eating it.Oh sure there will be talk of Benji Marshall,Rob Burrow,Rangi Chase,Jon Thurston etc.Who we end up with though,because those players turned us down,will be Matty Smith or Danny Orr.

Re: Sack Betts and Cullen : Wed May 09, 2012 12:41 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Let's roll forward to August. Crap season in the bin. SOC announces 7 gobsmacking signings for 2013 along with Wayne Bennett as coach. Now who's downbeat?

It's all fixable very quickly and memories will become short in the face of a Man City style shopping spree. And please - don't throw the salary cap at me - it's a sham.

I've been saying this for a while now... but for the first time I actually doubt our chairman's willingness to go anywhere near a strategy like this.