Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:34 am  

Difficult to make sensible comment from the outside but one wonders how the departure of Feisal's wedge has affected recruitment.

Expectations still seem high.

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Thu Jul 09, 2015 7:28 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Difficult to make sensible comment from the outside but one wonders how the departure of Feisal's wedge has affected recruitment.

Expectations still seem high.

Feisal never had any wedge, even the Roller was allegedly hired for the odd day at a time.

He never paid in full for his shares and the 60 grand cheque him and his mate Craig made much fanfare of handing to the stand volunteers went bouncing all the way into Purston Park Lake.

Andy Hay is a decent bloke, but I think he stepped up to head coach too soon, I also question if his personality is the right one for a head coach.

The debt that Feisal and Poskitt left certainly had an effect, it prevented us from going full time. Mark had to use some of the RFL/Sky money to stabilise the club.

We were unlucky to lose our first choice halfback before the season due to family problems at home, but Hay's performance has been less than sparkling, especially at home where we have been dire. We've lost a good 1000 off the crowd due to seriously inept performances against teams we should be beating with the squad available to us

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:24 pm  

"We've lost a good 1000 off the crowd due to seriously inept performances against teams we should be beating with the squad available to us."

Now that sound familiar!!!!!!!

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:23 am  

Homer_J_Simpson wrote:

The debt that Feisal and Poskitt left certainly had an effect, it prevented us from going full time. Mark had to use some of the RFL/Sky money to stabilise the club.

I recall no-one being interested in the debt while it was being created. It was all about Destination $uperleague 2015.

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:03 am  

Craig Poskitt has done an absolutely brilliant job since joining Halifax.

He's taken control of the commercial side of the business and made great strides!

Some people were skeptical of his appointment but he's certainly proven them wrong. Keep it up Craig. Makes it even sweeter that Featherstone fans hate him!

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:12 am  

Norman Bates wrote:

"We've lost a good 1000 off the crowd due to seriously inept performances against teams we should be beating with the squad available to us."

Now that sound familiar!!!!!!!

Exactly. It's all very well some people calling Hay's departure "panicking", but Fax persisted with Harrison's brand of rugby for three years or whatever and the fans slowly slipped away, and it's a lot harder getting them back - Fax are clearly a much better team this year but the crowds are still pitiful for a team going well and presumably they will take a while to filter back. Fev have had some decent results this season, mostly away from home, but there have been too many games where we've looked a poorly-coached team, especially in defence, to justify persisting with Hay. It's not our actual position - I thought we'd be in that 3rd-6th bracket, which is where we are - but the manner of a number of our defeats that has been disappointing. The overwhelming feeling this season watching Fev has been that the whole has been less than the sum of the parts, and in such instances the coach is always going to struggle to keep his job.

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:09 am  

You've proved you can beat the top teams but for some reason have been soundly beaten at home on a number of occasions, very peculiar to be honest.

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:04 pm  

The Phantom Horseman wrote:

Exactly. It's all very well some people calling Hay's departure "panicking", but Fax persisted with Harrison's brand of rugby for three years or whatever and the fans slowly slipped away, and it's a lot harder getting them back - Fax are clearly a much better team this year but the crowds are still pitiful for a team going well and presumably they will take a while to filter back. Fev have had some decent results this season, mostly away from home, but there have been too many games where we've looked a poorly-coached team, especially in defence, to justify persisting with Hay. It's not our actual position - I thought we'd be in that 3rd-6th bracket, which is where we are - but the manner of a number of our defeats that has been disappointing. The overwhelming feeling this season watching Fev has been that the whole has been less than the sum of the parts, and in such instances the coach is always going to struggle to keep his job.

Regardless of how well we play I feel most non-season ticket holders will still have to pick and choose which games they attend give the price of entry which is simply too high, particularly when taking a family.

Sounds utopian but we really do need better corporate support fostered and nurtured for mutual benefit - then we can lower entry prices or offer more deals to entice people back through the gates.

Ideally a strong benefactor? Then again we do not want a Cellino or Koukash-type calling the shots do we?

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:37 pm  

TheEnforcer273 wrote:

Craig Poskitt has done an absolutely brilliant job since joining Halifax.

He's taken control of the commercial side of the business and made great strides!

Some people were skeptical of his appointment but he's certainly proven them wrong. Keep it up Craig. Makes it even sweeter that Featherstone fans hate him!

Brilliant job. Has he?

Re: Featherstone part company with Andy Hay : Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:44 pm  

He spoke well at the forums and Ian Croad was certainly happy with his achievements at that point.We seem to have a record number of sponsors.It would be interesting to see if he was able to nail the grants he was optimistic of getting at the time.