Re: Where do we go from here? : Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:12 pm
I was pretty despondent after the MPG because first, we should have won it, second if Addy's conversion had been good we WOULD have won it, third because we came so close despite a mystifying squad selection and the terrible luck of a still-nowhere-near-fit Gaskell.I was despondent because if we couldn't beat a Wakefield in such disarray, then no better opportunity would likely come again.
But, I stumped up for my £380 season ticket expecting that the squad having had a year to get to know each other, plus one or two decent improvements, would again make a good fist of the season, even if it seemed unlikely we could win the MPG. I reasoned that there was chance, however slim, that we could finish in an automatic promotion spot. And it was slim, but it could be done, if we were better, trampled everyone all season and peaked at the right time, and managed to win against a SL team that also dropped other points, I could see a way.
Unfortunately our recruitment has been baffling and shambolic, and anybody who has watched the games knows that these players are not properly coached, and come on to the field somehow with a huge inferiority complex, and a tender constitution, and as soon as things go wrong, they panic and we can't find a way out.
Even the coach knows he's not coaching them properly - he keeps saying so. He says its his job and he is failing. But why is he still in it, then? I mean, what signs are there that despite our descent into a frankly joke side, he has the ability to turn us into victors over SL clubs in the playoffs? (and how daft does THAT idea sound?!?)
I don't understand Green. I understand loyalty but this isn't about that, this is about a team which is totally lost, and a "coach" who repeatedly admits he has no clue what to do to make things better. And a club that thinks we don't need a scrum half.
But my main concern is the universal bad feeling and bad taste of all present at recent games, especially after Sheffield. Green underestimates the fans. There is only so much shiit you can take before it sticks in your throat and I think the limit is now being reached. People feel as if they have been sold a pup, and that there is zero sign of anybody doing anything about it. The players seemingly love Lowes, Lowes loves them, and Green and Ferres love both, and so we are apparently doomed to do nothing, and to play like this all season, and to finish somewhere in the lower reaches of the Championship, and thereafter to die a slow and lingering death as crowds disappear, money dries up, and we become the club that once used to be Bradford.
It is all a bitter pill, but it needs something major to change and fast - but all the signs are that NOTHING will be changing any time soon, if at all.
Is that all there is?
It appears so.
