Maybe part of the problem is that despite them being succesful business men they dont seem to understand that operating a succesful sporting franchise is a completly different thing.They seem to be trying to approach it the same way they have been succesful and im afraid until they realise maybe that wont work things will not get better.We are told constantly there isnt the money for quality players to come in and that isnt the way they want to go.Well im sorry not sure we can expect things to get much better if they choose to take the young player development route.Will probably be 2 years before the best of them are able to offer a consistant level of performance that will allow us to compete and by then they will be looking to move on to bigger and better things and we are back to square one.
Maybe they should look at how the Breakers have gone about things,yep different sports but dont try and tell me that their away trips and schedule is easier than ours.They seem to have the mix between local players and hard nosed overseas players right.Just maybe there could be something to learn from them.They also seem to have owners who dont try and push themselves into the limelight constantly and seem to leave those who are employed to run the club to do what they there to do.