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Subject: Niel

Author:
Greg

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Date Posted: "Wed, Apr 13 2011, 23:10:24 GMT"
In reply to: Greg 's message, "Meils right" on "Wed, Apr 13 2011, 22:58:06 GMT"

Niel is so on the ball. Walk the miles, he does. I know that some of the messages are form the Redding days. If u want the past, drop your money in your pocket. WE were as good as any this sesaon. Ask the press! Our place is coz 3 men got us here.

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[> [> [> Subject: I too agree with Neil

Author:
Red 'n' Black
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Date Posted: "Wed, Apr 13 2011, 23:16:11 GMT"

Those carping have very short memories - we ran into finanical difficulties a few years back through trying to live beyond our means. Since then the guiding principle has been only spend money we have. Would the knockers want us to change that policy? It didn't do Bees much good, or Cov and they were both lucky to just get demoted one rung in the Leagues. The RFU would be likely to deal much more harshly with any team going into administration in the future.

I happen to think that we can do better than this season if we can hang on to the current squad who have really come together in the past few weeks. Remember, for the first half of the season we had a squad of about 30 and it is now around 35. That has seemingly had the effect of allowing the coaches to always pick fully fit players, put out a strong bench and create competition for places. If we could have 35 players available for the whole season I'm confident we could realistically aspire to a top eight finish.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Two separate discussions

Author:
PriceJ
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Date Posted: "Thu, Apr 14 2011, 8:44:10 GMT"

To me there seem to be two different discussions here. One is the stand, which would improve not only the match day experince but also increase the day to day income of the club through community use and bookings. For some reason some hold the view that this should not be built?

The second is the performance of the coaching staff. I read Ian Smiths comments about funding initially with some secpticism, but remember that the Gloucester deal was set for three years by which point the intention was to go fully professional.

I actually think the two are related in that the delays in raising funds and building the stand (and I know that money is not easily found for construction projects at present) has put a break on Moseley's progress financially. I guess the challenge is to keep the club afloat until such time that commercial activities are in a position to support a larger / more ambitious squad. In my view this is an enormous challenge and knocking people who have steadily moved Moseley forward over the past years is not that helpful...what the answer is, is probably best left to some of the people that are being mentioned not so positively above.

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