Millward to stay or go : Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:35 am  

There have been factors that have affected Millwards ability to do his job this year and we have suffered with injuries (although every club does - it's the nature of the sport) but do people believe that he has done enough to warrant being kept on for next year. I know there would be issues with paying him off but personally I'm not sure we can afford to keep him.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:15 am  

We have some tolerant supporters evidently.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:36 am  

I for one think we should give him halfway into next season because by then the players who don't want to play for us will no longer be here and he will have his own squad...then we could make a fair judgement on him. This season, along with his son's death and sh*t-stirrers in our club I think he's lost control.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:02 pm  

We're too quick to judge IMHO. IM is the obvious focal point for all the cr*p that's gone on this year, but it's easy to forget the rare occasions this rapidly disintegrating team have actually shone (yes, really). If we're still this bad at the end of 2013 then let's reconsider, but until then.... well it can't really get any worse can it?

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:32 pm  

I agree with Disco. The signings for 2013 are promising and with more yet to be announced we will enter the 2013 with a squad of players who are a vast improvement on 2012.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:54 pm  

The players are paid employees of Castleford Tigers and as such are paid to do a job of work just the same as someone working in a factory. If the workers on a production line do not do their jobs properly you don't sack the manager you sack the workers responsible. This is the situation at the moment with the players, some are not doing what they are being paid for, Ian Millward doesn't train them not to tackle or not to go for a 50/50 loose ball or waste possession or simply not to bother trying so he can hardly be held responsible for the last 2 pathetic showings. This has to be the fault of the players on the pitch who have shown a complete lack of respect for the people who are helping to pay their wages, namely us the supporters. Let's wait and see what Millward and Steve Ferres accomplish next season when they are totally responsible for the endeavours on and off the pitch, we are all aware that the club has not been run to the best of it's ability for years so let's get behind the new regime.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:46 pm  

Millward to go for me. Unfortunateley player power has won in the end IMO. I was disgusted with similar actions at Chelsea last year and felt the same thing is happening at Cas Tigers this season. Ian is putting up a fight but i'm afraid its a loosing battle.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:07 pm  

Stick with Millward ok he had a good side at Saints to start with but also look at what he did for Leigh do you think Ellis would have come to play for him if he was a horid bloke.You have had a few players who thought they could go on the lash and still be full time pro players.Those days of players going on the lash round town have gone and Millward will not stand for it.He wants the players to be at the top of the fitness list and giving everything surely thats whats best for your club.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:48 pm  

I thought it was a bad appointment at the time, and nothing I have seen so far this season has changed my opinion. There were obvious issues with our defence, which he promised to address, and our defence has got worse. He got rid of a player who did a reasonable job for us last year without even trying to mend the relationship with him, and we have had our best 2 players wanting to leave the club.

I'm sick of people see wait for next year, we start saying it earlier and earlier every season, we need a coach capable of delivering promises in the season we are playing in, rather than making hollow promises for the following.

I'd personally get shut now, and let Danny look after the team til the end of the season.

Re: Millward to stay or go : Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:10 pm  

tigerman49 wrote:

The players are paid employees of Castleford Tigers and as such are paid to do a job of work just the same as someone working in a factory. If the workers on a production line do not do their jobs properly you don't sack the manager you sack the workers responsible. This is the situation at the moment with the players, some are not doing what they are being paid for, Ian Millward doesn't train them not to tackle or not to go for a 50/50 loose ball or waste possession or simply not to bother trying so he can hardly be held responsible for the last 2 pathetic showings. This has to be the fault of the players on the pitch who have shown a complete lack of respect for the people who are helping to pay their wages, namely us the supporters. Let's wait and see what Millward and Steve Ferres accomplish next season when they are totally responsible for the endeavours on and off the pitch, we are all aware that the club has not been run to the best of it's ability for years so let's get behind the new regime.

if you employ a new manager and production falls you get shut pretty quick