Apart form the money they cough up to become members, buy merchandise and attend games, the fans mean nothing to the club. We are customers nothing more. Thats why we get told nothing. We dont know who is to blame for tearing the club apart just 5 days after winning a premiership. This has happened just three years after the last time the club was torn apart after winning a premiership and we still dont know who was to blame then.
The supporters are nothing to Des. They never have been. Not once since his announcement has Hasler mentioned the Manly fans. No thanks. No sorry I am leaving. Nothing. Until I know, which will probably be never, i can only have a gut feeling of who is to blame. I believe Hasler, Zorba, Penn, Reilly and even Max Delmege all are to blame for the club being in the predicament it is in now.
Max saved this club and I will always be grateful, but when he wanted out he should have just walked , and not pushed others like Mayer out first. Interesting to read in todays paper that Max was against re-signing Hasler. Too many people who are supposed to care about this club have put their own egos before the club and the result is what we have today. I have spent thousands of dollars the last few years following the team around the country. And if this feeling I have now is how it feels to be Premiers then I won't be spending any money next year except for my $65 maroon membership. That way when this feeling comes again, I'll have no regrets about throwing my hard earned money away on a club and a coach that doesn't give a s**t about it's members.