Merged: McN Insists Bulls Will Get It Right : Sat May 23, 2009 7:07 am  

Sorry Bradford Service Crew. heard it Steve - still trying to fool people?

Sorry Bradford Service Crew. heard it Steve - still trying to fool people?

: Sat May 23, 2009 7:16 am  

Same old rubbish I'm afraid, only way we'll get it right is by showing him the door!

[Wanderer]

: Sat May 23, 2009 7:34 am  

Used to love watching you guys on SKY (or the beeb) when you had the Awesome Foursome and some real quality in the three-quarters.

The recruitment policy over past three or four years has been shocking, picking up players from the likes of Wakefield and Huddersfield who may have looked ok but are a pale shadow of their predecessors at your Club. That trend has also continued with the players who have arrived more recently from Quins.

Whoever is responsible for recruitment of players from bottom 4 or 5 Clubs (which these have been whilst you have been signing their players) has turned the Bulls into much the same.

No-one has a devine right to be top four but surely back-to-back losses to Celtic and Salford must have hammered home the need for some sort of change to the powers that be.

Hopefully you will find a way to turn it round, possibly under a new coach who is given the opportunity to bring in some players of his own choice.

Anyway, things could be worse, I'm a Doncaster supporter and we're not sure if we'll have a Club come the end of the season.

Good luck for the remainder of the season.

: Sat May 23, 2009 7:52 am  

WANDERER wrote:

Used to love watching you guys on SKY (or the beeb) when you had the Awesome Foursome and some real quality in the three-quarters.

The recruitment policy over past three or four years has been shocking, picking up players from the likes of Wakefield and Huddersfield who may have looked ok but are a pale shadow of their predecessors at your Club. That trend has also continued with the players who have arrived more recently from Quins.

Whoever is responsible for recruitment of players from bottom 4 or 5 Clubs (which these have been whilst you have been signing their players) has turned the Bulls into much the same.

No-one has a devine right to be top four but surely back-to-back losses to Celtic and Salford must have hammered home the need for some sort of change to the powers that be.

Hopefully you will find a way to turn it round, possibly under a new coach who is given the opportunity to bring in some players of his own choice.

Anyway, things could be worse, I'm a Doncaster supporter and we're not sure if we'll have a Club come the end of the season.

Good luck for the remainder of the season.

Thanks for dropping by

: Sat May 23, 2009 8:17 am  

Only people within the club will know for sure what is happening at this club right now. We have some players who just do not look up for the fight each week. We have others that are either past it or badly out of form.

If Macca expects us to 'transform' then he has to drop some of the under performers that have let him down so badly. He claims to be supportive of his players.. but some of them need a one way ticket out of this once great club.

Looks like we have two weeks now of players/coaches telling us that they will put it right blah blah blah. The loyal supporters pay good money following this club and all they ask is to see 100% commitment for 80 mins from each player 1-17. I love RL and the Bulls, but right now I'm quite looking forward to not watching that shower next week.

: Sat May 23, 2009 8:47 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

.....all they <the> ask is to see 100% commitment for 80 mins from each player 1-17. ......

Regardless of the axe that differing posters have to grind / the "I told you so/look at me" posters / the "give it time" et al et al . . . . the sentence you've posted above Bully-Boxer sums it up perfectly, for me.

"Yes" of course we want to be pushing for honors & winning them; regularly turning over the filth (and now Celtic ) but more than that I want players who have a pride that I, and other Bulls fans, have in the RAB; in the club; it's past great players and aspiring new ones; in it's great history and more importantly, for me, it's future.

Players who turn up, turn out, play pants <because they can't be arrsed>, take the cash and laugh all the way to the bank are not worthy, IMHO, of pulling on the RAB. In doing so they're really sticking two fingers up at the us and everything that is Bradford Bulls. IMHO.

. . . . sorry. Rant over. I've got a hangover.

: Sat May 23, 2009 9:07 am  

Hull KR fan with my two-peneth's worth;

The thing I find irritating about McNamara is that although I agree with him that you "will get it right" for a few games, you won't "get it right" for enough games.

Everyone knows that in Super League, anyone can beat anyone else it's just that the top sides do it more often than others.

Th league table doesn't lie and the route of your problem lies in your recruitment and certainly some of the blame lies with McNamara for signing these players but I don't know what money Hood has given him. Even so, if money is limited, then McNamara is not the coach to get you out of your current situation.

I don't have anything against McNamara - I went to the same school as him, it's just my opinion that he doesn't seem to have the overall package as a Super League head coach...

McNamara Insists Bulls Will Get It Right. : Sat May 23, 2009 9:11 am  

As an outsider looking in (Wakey fan), I`m at a loss as to how Macca has still got a job, I remember when he first took over he said things would improve when he got his "own" players. well, now he has and they`re in a worse position after 3 years "progress", get rid now, would hate to see the Bulls become a laughing stock after all they`ve brought to the game over the years. They look to be replacing Wolves as perennial under-achievers, like Cullen, Macca seems to be able to take good or average players and get them to under-perform on a regular basis.

Every press interview is the same, although I loved the classic a few weeks ago -" A mistake is only a mistake if it`s repeated". No Macca, thats TWO mistakes. Do the decent thing and fall on your sword while you`ve still got some dignity.

[Bulliac]

: Sat May 23, 2009 9:17 am  

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: Sat May 23, 2009 9:17 am  

Now it's not just us, everybody in RL can see what a joke McNamara is becoming. His time would be up if I were chairman, but i'm not.