I could agree with you but then we would both be wrong.
Thanks' for your kind words Mike but please have a word with Mr Woolf and tell him how Justin had us playing an entertaining game of attacking rugby and can he bring this back please? Thanks Rommel.
The interesting bit is the clubs submission in planning to play in front of smaller crowds, if the government reduce the 2 metres to 1 metre then they should be able to get the planning approved.
The optimist in me is glad to see something coming from the club and I applaud the community work going on behind the scenes, but the sceptic in me wonders if this is a way of saying everyone but Thommo was willing to take a pay cut. It's just that after Eamonn getting some criticism, the timing of this letter seems a bit coincidental.
While this is very welcome, any communication from the club is long overdue. I would ask why it's taken twelve weeks to inform us of the situation. Surely we could have had a couple of holding letters before now. And while players have contacted senior season ticket holders, I wonder why Mrs Maghullsaint, a disabled season ticket holder, has not been contacted. I know I'm nitpicking here, but I think they could have been seen to be doing more.
Lenagan has pumped £500k into Wigan during the current crisis
Not that so much, but it was just that we heard that players were ringing senior citizens, and she would have liked to have had a call as well. And it was the playing staff who were making the calls, so I doubt there was much they could have done to keep the club in business other than staying fit, but you might know better.
I don't think he has anything to fear, and I didn't particularly have any problem with his statement re Thompson leaving. It was just the cynic in me wondering if the timing was a PR exercise, due to the fact that some supporters took offence at his statement.
His statement may have been out of order in some people's eyes but I can completely understand where EM is coming from. Since 2002 he has worked none stop investing time and money to keep Saints going. You could say the last 2 years, he was finally bearing the fruits of his labour. We had a great squad, were starting to make a profit off the field and when Coleman chose to move his loans into equity within the club, we were really about to kick on. Then comes corona and all the money the club has lost especially with the Little Mix concert and other off the field events. There must have been plenty of times he's thought, 'Why do I even bother?' All Eamon cares about is St. Helens and for him, the best option for the club would have been, Thompson takes the pay cut, sees out his contract, and helps Sats win the CC or GF or maybe even both. It didn't happen so he took the next best option.
I am not the biggest fan of Rush but at least he has taken the time to address the fans. He has actually inform us of a lot of what is going on and what us as fans can do to help i.e. buy from the club shop.
This is so much better than the RFL and SLE, Rimmer and Elstone have written a few press releases and said absolutely nothing. Rimmer has actually lied a few times, stating that the Ashes would be "difficult to deliver" a month after the ARL scheduled Origin in the calendar instead of it.
The non-cancellation of the Ashes has been mainly down to a desire not to give refunds. Given that we seem to struggle to get big event sold out in advance this hardly does a lot to make us, the RFLs customers, have confidence to buy tickets in advance in the future, given our ticket money is currently been held hostage.
If Rimmer takes the same approach as Rush and be upfront and honest about the the situation i.e. the RFL can't afford to give out on mass refunds, but is willing to give us good offers on 2021 world cup tickets instead, for example. Then Rugby League fans will get on board.
I could agree with you but then we would both be wrong.