Yup. I was gonna sign up for the regional membership next year, now I have a stable job and the wedding is all paid for finally...but if this happens, they can go f**k themselves. They won't get a cent out of me until the people who made the decision are gone.
Here we have a guy who has been a hugely successful coach in both major competitions. He turned the Warriors from a rabble into minor premiers in two seasons, and he made St Helens the most formidable side in the ESL. And these lunatics want to swap him for a bloke who rode to a World Cup on the coattails of the greatest coach still with us and whose only other claim to fame is that he was an assistant coach under the biggest salary rort in the history of the NRL? It's total, utter madness. Anderson inherited a complete rabble and took it to a grand final, but is still paying the proce for previous coaches decisions in terms of the available money and the players he has/has lost...sure, you can say he made a mistake signing Mortimer up long term and keeping him at 7 (although no one who does has come up with a better option from this years stock) but on the whole, the improvement is there. We overachieved last year because our attack clicked, and players like Kinga and Lowrie were surprisingly instrumental in that. This year, we didn't click, but we were still one of the better defensive sides in the game. Give us a halfback and we make the finals, simple as that. Basically, if the board sack him, they have done so for nothing more than personal reasons, or (even worse) because they lack the foresight and discipline to stick out a long term solution to our woes.
So yeah, if this happens they get nothing from me. I'll support the boys, watch what games I can on FTA or at the pub...but the board doesn't get a cent of my money on tickets or memberships or merchandise. And honestly, for me anyway, this rabble have had this coming for a while. This rumour/news/whatever it is was just the proverbial straw on the camels back.
