Re: Bradford : Tue May 26, 2009 7:05 pm  

Ande wrote:

Is this the biggest fall from grace ever?

WCC Champs in 02, 04 and 06.

To getting beat by Celtic at Odsal and then getting beat by Salford at the Willows thus making them 13th out of 14 SL teams

A little smile occurs seeing them down there but could this be the beginning of the end for Bradford?

Noble left. Plan A became no good once the big men left. No plan B. Stevie Mac signed. The board got stuffed for money becuase of ietyn "Greedy" Harris.

BOOM, its amazing they still get people through the gate to watch them, I presume its free tickets as surley nobody would pay to watch that team of tramps. I feel sorry for Sam Burgess.

: Wed May 27, 2009 2:59 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

But those "second rate" players have been "good enough" to beat Saints this season.

Let's see how the table looks in September. Bradford have been unlucky with injuries to their main playmakers this season.

Fake controversy ala Stevo at his best!

: Wed May 27, 2009 8:12 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Deacon? Tadulala?

They have Menzies, Morrison, Burgess and Lynch. The rest of the team is very poor.

Platt, Sheriffe, Nero, Sykes, Tadulala, Jeffries, Deacon is comfortably the worst backline ever to play for a "big 4" club in SL IMO.

Tadulala is a very good winger, based on work-rate one of the best in SL.

: Wed May 27, 2009 11:32 am  

SomersetSaint wrote:

Has he got no money? Braford should be spending the same amount as the other "big" clubs, because their turnover still supports them spending up to the cap limit. Are Bradford not spending the full cap amount? Thr trouble with the fallen clubs such as Bradford and the Goons is that they are spending the full cap, but have chosen to blow it on second rate players on over inflated salaries.

We not spending full cap, hence we had money for bird which didnt come off, he wouldnt have been cheap.
From last seasons squad we lost evans, hape, feather, harris, finnigan and vagana... a fair wad of cap with harris and hape alone..we`ve added an improved contract for burgess..as well as adding menzies, scruton, worrincy and sherriffe... not a prayer are we spending cap.

Menzies and burgess were meant to go second row with lynch and scruton props and morrison loose..a very good pack.. but with injuries to deacon and nero menzies hasnt played second row..morrison injured for big part so no loose..lynch was injured so burgess had to go prop..godwin injured so no back up for newton..injuries has wrecked us this season..fat feka didnt help by squashing godwin..leeds never seem to get major injuries all at one time..our second rate players have had to play due to injuries, we didnt buy them to play week in week out, we had no choice.

: Wed May 27, 2009 3:25 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

But those "second rate" players have been "good enough" to beat Saints this season.

Let's see how the table looks in September. Bradford have been unlucky with injuries to their main playmakers this season.

Getting slow in your old age Rogues? You're two pages late!

St Ty wrote:

I'll get it out of the way before any trolls do...

And yet they beat us at our place.

: Wed May 27, 2009 3:33 pm  

marsh316 wrote:

I remember when they signed 5 average players a couple of seasons ago, and people were saying that this will improve them.

When it was completely obvious that they would continue to get worse.

Nero FFS

Better than Nathan McAvoy is suppose.

A couple of seasons ago we signed:

David Solomona (Certainly not average)

Michael Platt At the time he looked a good signing, scoring a hat-tick on his debut: I'd say a good signing turned into an average player.

Glenn Morrison (Not Average)

Tame Tupou-Mid Season- At the time of signing he was the top try scorer for Broncos the previous season (Not Average)

Chris Feather-Borderline

You may have been thinking of 3 years ago:

Marcus Bai
Chris McKenna
Stanley Gene
Adam Watene - R.I.P

: Wed May 27, 2009 6:07 pm  

As we are talking about the bulls situation we all seem to agree that they didn't replace past players with good players for what ever the reason.

We are now getting into there most important phase since super league started.

We may have the whole spine of our great team gone either this year or next.

How these player are replaced with either youth or players brought in could keep us on top or send us to bradfords level.

Potter got 1 hell of a job trying to replace the likes of long, KC, gidley, gilmour, JC and few others over the next to years.

: Wed May 27, 2009 6:51 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

They have Menzies, Morrison, Burgess and Lynch. The rest of the team is very poor.

So you think the youngsters breaking through (Halley, Kopczak, Cook, James, Crookes) are all poor aswell?

And if newton is "Poor", what does that say for a lot of other Hookers in the league? They are worse than poor?

An I hope you continue to call Michael Worrincy poor, In a few years you'll feel like a complete fool.

: Wed May 27, 2009 10:33 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

So you think the youngsters breaking through (Halley, Kopczak, Cook, James, Crookes) are all poor aswell?

And if newton is "Poor", what does that say for a lot of other Hookers in the league? They are worse than poor?

An I hope you continue to call Michael Worrincy poor, In a few years you'll feel like a complete fool.

Check out the league table.

: Thu May 28, 2009 12:28 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Check out the league table.

I don't need to, I know our current position, what relevance does that have to the point i'm making? I'm saying that the rest of the team aren't poor, some are, certainly, but we are currently under-performing anyway.