CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseum : Tue May 29, 2012 11:12 am  

Well from what we are seeing on field, no one can stand up and say what a fantastic job Ian Millward is doing so far. Some would help him to pack his bags tomorrow, where as others are suggesting to let him build his own team for next year before we judge him. Either way....he will be at the CTSC meeting tonight, which starts at 7-45 in the Wish Communications Suite. This is a chance to ask some of the many questions to which we all want to know the answers. http://www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2286

Well from what we are seeing on field, no one can stand up and say what a fantastic job Ian Millward is doing so far. Some would help him to pack his bags tomorrow, where as others are suggesting to let him build his own team for next year before we judge him. Either way....he will be at the CTSC meeting tonight, which starts at 7-45 in the Wish Communications Suite. This is a chance to ask some of the many questions to which we all want to know the answers. http://www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2286

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Tue May 29, 2012 10:03 pm  

Good event. Big turnout - didn't seem like any of the "walkers" or whingers turned up from the other forum. No surprise.

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Wed May 30, 2012 7:29 am  

I couldn't get there myself. Was there anything of interest about new signings?

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Wed May 30, 2012 11:36 am  

From a poster on the other forum it would appear he confirmed we have signed 2 centres and a half back for 2013 who will be announced soon. And we're in talks with a second rower. Other news was that James Parkes would be leaving this week due to personal reasons.

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Wed May 30, 2012 12:02 pm  

Fully wrote:

Good event. Big turnout - didn't seem like any of the "walkers" or whingers turned up from the other forum. No surprise.

So it was a nice happy love in?

TigersAllTheWay wrote:

From a poster on the other forum it would appear he confirmed we have signed 2 centres and a half back for 2013 who will be announced soon. And we're in talks with a second rower. Other news was that James Parkes would be leaving this week due to personal reasons.

Brierley getting a run out at FB too in pre-season?

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Wed May 30, 2012 7:59 pm  

Gronk! wrote:

So it was a nice happy love in?

Thoroughly enjoyable evening.

I half-expected someone to lay into Millward given the antipathetic comments towards him on the forum but no, nothing. Like I said, no surprise. People can only have a go through internet but not through events put on.

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Wed May 30, 2012 10:58 pm  

Fully wrote:

Thoroughly enjoyable evening.

I half-expected someone to lay into Millward given the antipathetic comments towards him on the forum but no, nothing. Like I said, no surprise. People can only have a go through internet but not through events put on.

So you'd have preferred someone to lay into him?

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Thu May 31, 2012 7:08 am  

Towns88 wrote:

Fully wrote:

Thoroughly enjoyable evening.

I half-expected someone to lay into Millward given the antipathetic comments towards him on the forum but no, nothing. Like I said, no surprise. People can only have a go through internet but not through events put on.

So you'd have preferred someone to lay into him?

Laying into might not be quite the right expression, but given the current state of our game giving him a good grilling wouldn't be out of order.

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Thu May 31, 2012 8:40 am  

It would be nice to have heard some explanation as to why we've been so utterly dire this season to be honest.

Re: CTSC - Ian Millward, Tues 29th May at the Probiz Coliseu : Thu May 31, 2012 12:23 pm  

Bonzo wrote:

It would be nice to have heard some explanation as to why we've been so utterly dire this season to be honest.

To paraphrase a little, he said he's "as frustrated as we are". He said the defensive drills are going well but not translating onto the park for game day. I don't recall if he offered anything like a "..and here's what we're going to do about it", other than looking at recruitment for next season.

On that, he was asked if up to twelve changes in one off season could be good for the team, to which he replied: "Well do YOU think this team's good enough to keep?". Speaks volumes to me about expectations this year...

However, he did still intimate that the target remains to make the eight this year, but he put a worrying emphasis on winning the next three in order to stay on course. Bulls, Reds and Rhinos... hmmm!!