with all due respect. I know that a lot of fans were not happy with the product on the field for the last 4 years, ( myself included) but if fans use that as an excuse not to show up to games, and watch them on t.v. We are not going to have a team!! So regardless, if our team was bad. If the fans don`t show up( for a period of time) then say bye bye to football in Hamilton.
Well, I don't share your dramatic sense of the situation. I think Bob has gotten off easy the past couple of years and he knows it. He admits he didn't know how to run a football team and he made lots of mistakes.
I think he will have to ride out the string of customer dissatisfaction until at the very least a consistant competitive team is put on the field.
That may take a game, a month, a season or a few seasons to win people back…whatever.
This onus is on Bob to deliver and bring the fans back IMO.
He’s got me, i’m like a junkie needing his next fix of Cat football. Not all fans are as hooked as me and Bob has a lot of work to do to bring those fans back.
I, like many people are tired of threats of team moving or folding without my support. If they really feal that way then fold the team and let’s all move on. I don’t like being guilted into supporting something that hasn’t been able to support itself.
How about the threat of the fan not showing support until they believe they have something to be proud of on the field. Why is that looked upon as a negative thing?
I think some fans here are putting melodramatic pressure on other fans for risk of loosing the team, when I don’t believe Bob thinks that way at all.
Bob is not like our previous owners, he doesn’t hold his clients (the fans) at ransome with threats of doom if they don’t support him. He looks at this the right way, if they are not coming…why and give them a reason to come and if the product is solid they will come back for more.
He’s not there yet, but I think Bob and the cats will turn it around and when they do he will develop the loyal base this team deserves.
The success of this team will be based on management and the team itself not the fans.
Truer words have never been spoken for Cats’s fans.
“If you build it they will come.”
I think Bob is still building, and most fans will come, when they feel it has been built.