It's no surprise that performances have declined since his appointment in January 2017. We have won one trophy during his tenure. It simply is not good enough for a team with our resources.



2017: 9th

2018: 4th

2019: 4th

2020: 3rd

2021: 3rd

2022: 11th



You only have to spend fifteen minutes in the blokes company to realise he is all about the brand and seemingly what happens on the rugby field comes second. He tweeted yesterday after our embarrassing defeat to Wigan about our 1950's shirt and was roasted for it on Twitter. Read the room Karl. There should be an inquest about what on earth has just gone on 24 hours before not tweeting about match shirts, or planning Woflie's next stunt, or Whizzy Rascal's next appearance. I remember being at a fans forum a couple of years ago and him saying he wanted to make us into an American sports team, with pre-match entertainment and it to be all about the day out rather than the game, it's absolute drivel.



Regarding the signings and who signs who, you can dress it up which way you like (Powell signed this player, Karl signed that) but as the CEO he has overseen every signing in the last six years.



The signings of Roberts, Latu, Tasi, McGuire, Mata'utia, Inglis, Pomeroy, Burrell to name a few have been awful. I've said it many of times but until we change who's in charge at the top and replace the powers that be with actual astute clever people who are ruthless and don't accept mediocrity we will never win a Grand Final.

Good post, Moz. It pretty much sums up my feelings too. I don't fully know what KF's job entails, so I don't feel able to judge whether he's doing it well enough or not. I certainly don't believe it's as simple as 'results and performances have plummeted, therefore KF is rubbish'.



For probably multiple reasons, and over a period of time, failure has simply become endemic at Wire. It feels to me like it needs some sort of expert, external trouble-shooter to come in and spend time doing a root and branch review of the club's set-up, trying to pinpoint where the issues lie, and how we can begin to overcome them and get out of this rut of under-achievement.



DP's talk of culture change seemed to be bearing fruit at the start of the season, and yet Sunday felt every bit like a 'back to square one' performance (or rather, non-performance).

i've defended fitz(more out of the sake of neutrality than actually defending) on here a fair bit, cos i think he gets a bit of a rough deal, he's an easy target, people want a professional sports administrator, and conveniently forget what a bag uncle rog was when he was here.



People then hark back to wanting gatcliffe back, we were steady with him here but went through lean periods pre tony smiths arrival, and then after 2013's team broke up, he wasn't a magician, also lets not forget the Vape sponsorship he agreed to just before he departed which copped the club a lot of bad press.



People complain about Fitz because he wants fan enagement, social media interaction and as mentioned today, wants to turn us into an NFL/american sports team. Those teams make MILLIONS of dollars, is that such a bad aim? they probably make more money from fans not even turning up (through merch) than we do gate receipts.



People complain about the whizzy rascal and wolfie vids, they're not aimed at us, we're old curmudgeonly s, and our fan base(RL and Warrington's) is getting older, they're trying their best to make RL cool for the kids, who can then grow into old curmudgeonly s.



He's got to keep the lights on as well as trying to get us to a grand final. The team doesn't exist in a vaccuum.



and just to say again, he's an easy target to have a pop at, one could argue, that this period price and powell has been since Stuart Middleton became a major controlling influence in the club, who's to say whats going on in terms of powell, recruitment etc isn't at his behest?

Seen this a few times over last few seasons, he is trying to get younger fans in etc, ok I get that but us curmudgeonly lovers as you call us what about what we want do we get parked up now because our time is nearly over? I’m not old enough to have seen us win the championship and at this rate could be doubtful I ever will. Anyway just looking at attendances for 11 games and we up avg 2700 up on last season is that because of whizzy rascal or because we were winning games.

Whats his twitter handle, i didn't realise he tweeted?

One of his staff who he manages. Apologies Gaz Fitzpatrick.

Thats a shame, he has blocked my mobile number

Crickey that’s dire

Shows why we need to hang on to Kirkpatrick, where would we be without the laughs he gives us

Two negative press stories today about the Wire to add to the McGuire shambles.



1. The club not paying minimum wage - we have issued a reply/explanation.



2. A member of the female squad being dismissed from the Police for racist abuse. Police have fired her instantly, we're making further inquiries



Things not going very well at the minute.

Two very disappointing things to come out of the club this morning. You add that to the current tripe we’re witnessing on the field lately and there’s not much to get giddy about.

Kiss Cam Karl is under huge pressure to save his job here.



Not going well for him at all.

Probably better to dump the trash in one go…

Clean bin.