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 Post subject: Re: April 3rd, May 1st, May 13th
PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:38 pm 
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BigTime wrote:I’m sure there will be a review of all aspects if we survive this season from social media to marketing, player recruitment and retention to the website. Possibly a relaunch 2.0.
What makes you think Hughes is someone who is suddenly willing to learn from his mistakes ?

In any case, a review at the end of the season would be too late and only serve to placate the egos of those who have failed during the season. Any serious business in this situation would be reviewing after each and every game to see what needs to be improved and prioritising actions.






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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:54 pm 
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BigTime wrote:My experience is that the merch has been decent it’s other areas where there have been issues from what I can see.
Who knows what the club will do for merch next season or if we’ll be around next season but I wouldn’t say changing suppliers was a must. In any event,

Regardless......I've a wardrobe full of broncos shirts but only one (my son's) that is APX.....he was toxic and he needs to be flushed from the clubs history. There are hundreds of firms who can do this for the club.....it takes minutes to find them.

BigTime wrote: I’m sure there will be a review of all aspects if we survive this season from social media to marketing, player recruitment and retention to the website. Possibly a relaunch 2.0.

Loubser will be polishing his CV already and Hughes will be left with nobody to run his vanity project.
The time to plan for 2023 is now if you want any decent players.....but firstly get a decent coach and have a plan for next year be that in L1 or the championship.
As for off the park.....Hughes blames the fans for not coming.....his words in November highlight his marketing policy...."if they watch one game they'll be hooked".....it's flawed, but it's not his fault, it's the fans for not coming :CRAZY:

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 Post subject: Re: April 3rd, May 1st, May 13th
PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:02 pm 
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The time to plan is definitely now. One issue of course is our incompetence has left us uncertain what division we’ll be in. That will be a major factor in any planning. If I was them and if they have a kitchen sink I would throw it at recruitment now to get us over the line early enough in the season to know where we stand for 2023. But as I’ve said before it’s easy for me to spend other people’s money.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:11 pm 
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BigTime wrote:The time to plan is definitely now. One issue of course is our incompetence has left us uncertain what division we’ll be in. That will be a major factor in any planning..


Common sense would suggest this the case but Hughes was happy to assemble a L1 squad for the Championship this season.






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 Post subject: Re: April 3rd, May 1st, May 13th
PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:20 pm 
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jbuzza wrote:Common sense would suggest this the case but Hughes was happy to assemble a L1 squad for the Championship this season.

So it’s possible he could do the reverse for next season. Things are looking up.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:28 pm 
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BigTime wrote:. But as I’ve said before it’s easy for me to spend other people’s money.

You should apply for a role at the club.......Hughes likes your type 8)

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:31 pm 
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orangeman wrote:You should apply for a role at the club.......Hughes likes your type 8)

Sadly I like to get paid so I think that takes me out of the reckoning although the almost complete absence of any relevant experience may make me an irresistible choice.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:33 pm 
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jbuzza wrote:What makes you think Hughes is someone who is suddenly willing to learn from his mistakes ?.


A memory just popped up on FB from 2009.......we'd just spanked Wire 60-8 with the infamous "shirt burning" incident.

In 2009 we averaged 3,500, with 2 gates over 4,200, we finished 11th of 14, our then CEO is now CEO of the Commonwealth Games, we had 6,000+ for the pre-season Manly game marketed by the RFL on our behalf and we took full coaches of away fans to Wales and Wakefield

We now have an accountant playing CEO with zero back office staff, a small community team and a coaching and fitness team of 3, we're averaging 1,500 and have little chance of maintaining this number in the 10 remaining home games, there is a reliance on free community attendees, AFC fans and now discounted tickets including to the Corporate Lounge.....Social media has seen fans banned for questioning decisions that have now been seen justifiably questioned and a toxic staff member has gone scorched earth on the way out the door. Nepotism in terms of the CEO's relationship with that ex-staff member are worth scrutiny IMHO, but won't because Hughes can't be bothered with any administrative tasks. Appeals for volunteers have fallen by the wayside due to the toxicity at the the club and we are hoping that we are better than Workington and Dewsbury.....and the mini-bus to Leigh seems to be a non starter...that's the depths that we have plummeted to.

In short, Hughes has overseen this decline, contributing with bad appointments and inept allocation of funds. In the 2009 hammering of Wire, we had 9 try scorers crossing 10 times with 10 conversions..... that's more of either than we've managed in 6 games so far this season.

Hughes will never admit he's wrong......even if you drew him a diagram of the fall under his ownership.....he'll NEVER concede it's been his doing :FRUSRATED:

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Anyone running a book on when the banner link to tickets for the Bradford game will be fixed :lol:






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 Post subject: Re: April 3rd, May 1st, May 13th
PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:30 pm 
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jbuzza wrote:Anyone running a book on when the banner link to tickets for the Bradford game will be fixed :lol:

My guess is before the end of the season and 5 minutes after they fix the font on the 1st team staff and Men’s first team player tabs so it doesn’t look so absolutely amateurish.

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