Re: Where do we go from here? : Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:11 pm  

jockabull wrote: http://www.idiotsguides.com/education/grammar-and-punctuation/how-to-use-common-punctuation-marks/ HTH Wow, I bet the nights fly by in your house Taggart It's comforting to know your more concerned about my lack of alleged grammatical knowledge than you are with the plight of your club

jockabull wrote: http://www.idiotsguides.com/education/grammar-and-punctuation/how-to-use-common-punctuation-marks/ HTH Wow, I bet the nights fly by in your house Taggart It's comforting to know your more concerned about my lack of alleged grammatical knowledge than you are with the plight of your club

Re: Where do we go from here? : Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:33 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

:lol:
Nonsense we would have deffo won it and you know it, stop making rubbish up

Aw bless course you would if you say so

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

It's "too fine a point". [b] Learn English. We are "holding our own", as shoite as we comparatively are. The trouble is that "holding your own" in the Championship - i.e. mid-table mediocrity - is a complete waste of time and a route to oblivion. But we hardly need your garbled drivel to tell us that.

I'm really glad you agree with me on this.
The word deffo is that your definition of Learn English, have a word with yourself
Btw apologies for deleting all the other she!!te from your post when you replied to my unbiased observation regarding where you go from here, and despite your childish hostility towards me I hope your club can see through your present problems.
Keep in touch love chiss

Re: Where do we go from here? : Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:43 pm  

chissitt wrote:

:shock: Well that's a first, being lectured on the English language by somebody from Manchestaar

OK, chissitt, sit down... This may blow your mind, but you can live in one city and hail from another!

Re: Where do we go from here? : Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:57 pm  

josefw wrote:

OK, chissitt, sit down... This may blow your mind, but you can live in one city and hail from another!

Well I would never have guessed that
Did you go to live in Manchestaar to study the English language at university, or to get away from Bradford and it's ailing rugby club or was it simply the weather

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Re: Where do we go from here? : Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:35 am  

I think we've digressed enough now lads.

Re: Where do we go from here? : Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:12 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

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.

Very well summed up and difficult to disagree with any of it.

I walked away on Sunday thinking there is no chance I'm spending £20 (or however much a ticket and petrol is) to go to Dewsbury on Sunday to watch this crap again. I've supported through thick and thin but there gets to a point where you don't want to give up your Sunday afternoon and hard earned money that could be spent elsewhere, to go and be depressed for 2 hours. You wouldn't do that in any other aspect of life, so why would you do it for sport?

That being said, the later it gets in the week, the more I become like a previous poster. That completely illogical thought starts to come into your mind of "Ah, but maybe we'll be better, I'll go anyway". It's got no basis whatsoever, I fully expect in reality I'm going to be weed off again on Sunday, but I also think I'll inevitably end up going again despite not really wanting to.

Re: Where do we go from here? : Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:53 am  

Did we detect the first signs of humility from James Lowes in his post-match comments? That would be a start but sadly nowhere near what's required. I'm impressed by Daryl Powell and his approach at Castleford when they lose - frank but at the same always positive about improving and moving on. I imagine Jimmy behaving like a spoilt kid around the sheds after the game, kicking stuff over and ranting and then taking that attitude into training during the week. This team need a new way of thinking, a new psychology. Aside from the scrum-half issue, the squad has the quality to dominate this league. That can only be achieved by a new coach.

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Re: Where do we go from here? : Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:54 am  

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... n_matches/ Rarely have I read such cobblers. Does Omari really believe this rubbish? "We’re not losing games through any lack of effort, although it might look like that, and we’re working hard in training to put things right." I know what I saw with my own eyes on Sunday. “I think the boys are trying too hard, me included, and instead of just sticking with the gameplan we get a bit carried away trying to score points, when really it’s a case of seeing games out." If our display after 18mins was us getting carried away trying to score points then I hate to see us play boring rugby as it'd put a glass eye to sleep. “But all the boys have full faith in him and I don’t think there is any sort of problem at all.” No problem at all eh? A statement from someone more senior at the club would've been more appropriate. It stinks a bit to send a player out to comment who's probably not got the skills to put into words what's going on. Where's Ferres? He's quick to comment when he says the fans aren't getting behind the team - where are you now Steve? You're stepping up your hunt for a scrum half? What have you been doing for the past 18months?

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... n_matches/ Rarely have I read such cobblers. Does Omari really believe this rubbish? "We’re not losing games through any lack of effort, although it might look like that, and we’re working hard in training to put things right." I know what I saw with my own eyes on Sunday. “I think the boys are trying too hard, me included, and instead of just sticking with the gameplan we get a bit carried away trying to score points, when really it’s a case of seeing games out." If our display after 18mins was us getting carried away trying to score points then I hate to see us play boring rugby as it'd put a glass eye to sleep. “But all the boys have full faith in him and I don’t think there is any sort of problem at all.” No problem at all eh? A statement from someone more senior at the club would've been more appropriate. It stinks a bit to send a player out to comment who's probably not got the skills to put into words what's going on. Where's Ferres? He's quick to comment when he says the fans aren't getting behind the team - where are you now Steve? You're stepping up your hunt for a scrum half? What have you been doing for the past 18months?

Re: Where do we go from here? : Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:59 am  

Omari has voiced his displeasure at that article on twitter this morning, so let's just remember that Ross is a journalist trying to sell papers at the end of the day.

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Re: Where do we go from here? : Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:02 am  

Really? Got a link?