Bethman wrote:
Of all of the people who have said they wish to keep Millward on I can't see any actual reasoning for this beyond he will be better next year. This may well be the case as he will have a different group of players, however I believe we should judge him on what he has done rather than what we hope he will do.
Millward has been at the club for almost a year and I can't really see any positive impact he has made in any aspect of the on field performance or the off field perception of the club. On the field he vowed to improve our defence and said he was going to change the way we attacked, well our defence has been worse than ever and Millward himself has said our attack has looked boring at times. Off the field people talk of him cleaning up the days of going out on the lash, well since he took over we had the Owen incident over Christmas and the Chase incident, it would be impossible to say Millward is directly responsible for these incidents but if it was his agenda to introduce discipline then he's hardly been successful there.
There has also been the Mathers issue there have been people who have defended Millward on this but I think its clear that one of our biggest rivals have benefited greatly while we have suffered from the way the situation has played out, while also the way that the story was reported in the media hardly made our club look good.
One thing that has annoyed me is that at various times this year Millward has deflected some of the blame for our bad performances to the previous coaching saying we slip back into bad old habits of the previous years at times, however as far as above previous years bad habits are a vast improvement on this years habits, the coach should really be taking some of the blame for this other coaches have and do but Millward seems to have quite an ego.
Actually to be fair to Millward I've just thought of a positive for Millward, signing our best young players to long term deals was a very good move.
Spot on, no one has made a convincing argument on here that we will be any better next season, i dont really buy the its the out of contract players not trying argument at all and think its naive at best, danny is trying, youngquest is trying, jones is trying, hudson has tried when he has played, davies has tried, goldy tried, jackson has tried, mitchell and griffin have to try there hardest or there sl careers are over, grehan hardly played, harris and brierly haven't been given a game, the only player you can honestly say that hasnt tried who is ooc is snitch If we give milward another year we will be on sub 5k crowds so whoever comes next will have a much harder job just to avoid the wooden spoon with the smallest budget in the league, i actually think with the way crowds are falling we could be in danger of going bust, we need to act before its too late.
