Quote vastman="vastman"=#FF0000Andrew Glover is a victim of his own publicity on this one, he talked sense, he had plans and he assumed RL was a rational game...oh dear. In real terms he's done OK but he hyped things up for the best of reasons without understanding the beast. This is a club with a 40 year history of false dawns and broken promises. Expectations are low but tolerance levels are even lower, it's best at Trinity to talk up what's happen rather than be optimistic about what might but probably won't happen. So embittered are Trin fans they are primed and ready to attack any perceived failure regardless of how reasonable the excuses.
I was considered as anti Glover a few month back because I didn't go for it and believed that all we'd seen was cosmetic, which wasn't a dig it was realism. We had a great April and expectations went through the roof and here we are which didn't help.
I said at the time it's all hunky dory now but a few big losses and it will be carnage on here - first Kear - now Glover and it will only get worse. It's only a matter of time before Dolly the tea lady comes under pressure. Doesn't matter now the claws are out. People lash out on here in a way they surely can't do in real life, it's amazing really. They just want somebody to make us great again and don't want to wait.
To say Andy Glover didn't know much about RL is an understatement - If I had a small personal fortune I wouldn't waste a penny of it on WT and I love the club. It's just a hiding to nothing.
I don't think he's the messiah, I think he's out of his depth but just like Ted (17 years ago) he's saved a club that been on life support for generations - for that alone he has my support, but then why wouldn't he as there was no one else mad enough to take it on.'"
I think that the highlighted point is absolutely bang on, and i think from day one he was aware of the power to alienate himself from the support by following the track laid by the previous regime.
Why has he talked up two events that have left many supporters feeling flat? i don't know, maybe he would like to let everyone know the score on that.
What we all need to see however is the bigger picture, and its very difficult, as supporters we have a lot of negativity, over the coach, the players, our past history and the franchise system and constant speculation it causes.
Our relative success's lead supporters to believe a little too much is available with this squad, at the start of the season i was expecting results like the one against Hull KR most weeks. The coach is picking players nobody can understand why, pressure is mounting in the franchise race and we all know where we have been left in that particular scheme.
What i aren't buying into though is your belief that you're some kind of mystic, most people on here know only too well why you "were" anti glover, and lets be honest when things have gone better than we hoped, you softened your stance, now however you are claiming divine gifts.
Lets no waste time raking over the coals, because you and i will never agree, what is important is that as a club and as a group of supporters we stay strong and turn up for the remaining games, we all knew this season was going to be a tough one and so it has proven to be, but hopefully from adversity we will emerge stronger.
July 26th will let us know where we stand and what kind of future the RFL see's fit for us to have
A message for Mr Glover, if you are reading this.
Take head from the mistakes of the past, you know that if you treat the fans with respect they will respond, that has been evident in the rise in attendances, matchday sales, memberships etc.
A clear message of intent will calm many nerves, but no false promises or you will prove to be no more than the double glazing salesman, some claim you to be.