[Bullseye]

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:36 pm  

Listening to MD's post match interview and looking at the body language it doesn't look very good does it. We're in a massive hole and it will take a lot of work to get out of it. I didn't realise he was operating without an assistant and is coaching the reserves as well as the 1st team. Seems he has been given a similar budget for 2023 as he has for this year but he did allude to a "lot of things going on" which never bodes well. Shades of 2016. I guess if players weren't being paid we'd soon hear about it.

We really could do without playing Fax next but if we can put in a decent performance it might help us turn the corner. Shame London beat them as it'll remove any complacency they may have had.

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:57 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Listening to MD's post match interview and looking at the body language it doesn't look very good does it. We're in a massive hole and it will take a lot of work to get out of it. I didn't realise he was operating without an assistant and is coaching the reserves as well as the 1st team. Seems he has been given a similar budget for 2023 as he has for this year but he did allude to a "lot of things going on" which never bodes well. Shades of 2016. I guess if players weren't being paid we'd soon hear about it.

We really could do without playing Fax next but if we can put in a decent performance it might help us turn the corner. Shame London beat them as it'll remove any complacency they may have had.

Playing Fax at the Summer Bash is a nightmare tbh.

I saw a post (on here I think) when Kear was sacked saying changing coach was like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. I don't know about that its more like the Mary Celeste

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:29 pm  

I think the turnaround would need to be nothing short of miraculous to be anything other than an absolute hammering by Halifax.

I wonder, have Bradford ever dismissed two coaches in a season? I feel for MD he has been given an almost impossible task but I am struggling to see where he turns this season around to make it feel like we've turned a corner and bring some hope for 2023.

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:14 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

I wonder, have Bradford ever dismissed two coaches in a season? I feel for MD he has been given an almost impossible task but I am struggling to see where he turns this season around to make it feel like we've turned a corner and bring some hope for 2023.

We might squeeze past Workington and possibly Whitehaven who are both awful - especially Worky

Beyond that, it's difficult to see where another win is going to come from.

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:35 pm  

think the talk of 2016 probably isn't helpful. I don't buy it for the sole purpose that why would Wood after 2 years, put himself through fh a fans forum right before we got bust

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:40 pm  

Listening carefully to MD during the after match interview, he said "there's a lot going on behind the scenes at the club - you can ask players not to read into it as many times as you want, but they're human beings and they do - on the back of that confidence is low". Really says most of what some have suspected for a while now. Doesn't sound too good for the future, or am I reading too much into MD's words ?

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:41 pm  

paulwalker71 wrote:

We might squeeze past Workington and possibly Whitehaven who are both awful - especially Worky

Beyond that, it's difficult to see where another win is going to come from.

Possibly, but would victories over either of those sides off much hope? Last game of the season is versus Widnes at Odsal, I am calling it now.. John Kear will stick 30 past us and will be punching the air in the dug outs. The loyal band of 900 or so Bulls spectators will then trudge back up the steps in utter despair.

The social media guy will then post a patronising message on Facebook.

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:55 pm  

Just been watching the "highlights" of the match. Barrow's 1st try past our non-existent right hand defence, and the 3rd try where 4 of our defenders were on to the Barrow player - and he still got the ball away, were absolutely dreadful. Never mind the rest of their tries which were equally as painful to watch.
Barrow made us look like a third rate side.
I might have gone to the bash to watch the team against Halifax, but this has totally turned me off - we'll be a laughing stock if Fax turn up in some kind of form, and no matter what state our team is in, I can't stand there and watch humiliation.

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:27 pm  

I recall a few years ago Gaskell clough and Ferguson all signed for Huddersfield they spent the last 3 or 4 months at bradford on the sick milking money out of the club apart from Ferguson who did get on the field and try, Gaskell did the same at Huddersfield before joining wakefield and oddly enough he is on the sick again, point I’m making is if the players of todays squad are capable of not putting it in now, the surely it looks bad on them when they go and join another club, people should spot this and put a question mark at side of them a bit like a race horse, classed as ungenuine, we ain’t going to make the play offs that’s for sure, we obviously have to pay them till the season is over, ask them if they want to go now and get shut, it’s not fair on the paying fans, you players who ever you are should remember what goes around comes around, one day something will happen and you will wonder if that’s bad calma, your the lowest of the low, your not only fraud it the club but your frauding the people who pay your wages, shame on you

Re: Barrow away : Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:49 pm  

Peter Goddard wrote:

Out of the regular playing players I would keep:
Scott
Patton
Gill
Lilley
England
Wallace
Scurr
Doyle
Butler
Flanagan Jr
The rest can go for me.

Scott is a decent player but someone told me his knee is permanently shot and has been advised to retire? That was whilst at York and yet here he is trying to get through another season.

Would be interested to know why Scurr is not getting a game? Last year he was being courted by Saints but now he can't get a game in a mid-table championship side on a losing streak?

Something is going badly wrong behind the scenes!!!