well if people have all the answers they should be involved, it's easy to have all the answers when not actually facing the daily challenges, anyone who has worked in a large organisation particularly at some management level would understand that
I don't think the comment is supercilious at all, quite the opposite, I don't claim to have all the answers, and I point out that I don't think others do either
And continually dwelling on failures is only holding the sport back
When a sport needs to expand and has little money, a northern image, small investment etc. It has many challenges to make things successful. It is inevitable that there will be failures, successful people don't continually remind everyone of the failures, they learn and move on. Show me a successful business that sacks everyone and starts again after every poor decision, just think about how that would play out. Who gets sacked? Who pays them off, who recruits new people, beds them in, they learn the market, who teaches them this! Once in place they develop their ideas, at first they fail, they get sacked, the whole things starts again....
We should learn, develop, grow and go again, the defeatist types never succeed, never, I've seen it through working life. The defeatist types need to be pushed out of any organisation as they hold it back.
The situation we have now, fans are so cynical, poor scorn on virtually anything rugby league try's to do and that is damaging. Why would new fans buy tickets when people who apparently follow the sport take every opportunity to say it's a failure and cannot wait to type all the failures for everyone to see? We are more at risk of imploding from internal pressures than external.
The amount of reasons already given for failure is exhausting, if people want to go they will go, it's that simple, no need to list previous failures and reasons this will fail when we haven't even got there yet
The time for review is afterwards, reflect, consider and give constructive feedback, not tell everyone it's rubbish before the day and then revel in its failure so you can tell everyone your clever and was right