Quote The Speculator="The Speculator"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?
