: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:03 pm  

af wrote:

Is that really necessary?



TBF, this week their tries were nicely spaced out, by and large.

TBH he isn't doing anything to suggest that he isn't.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:06 pm  

Surley Tordoff, Bates and Agar between them realise that he isn't up to the job.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:07 pm  

Terry Monster wrote:

Surley Tordoff, Bates and Agar between them realise that he isn't up to the job.

The days of Jack having any say are long gone.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:10 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

It is a perfectly accurate description as far as i am concerned.

Mulder and Scully would struggle to find evidence to contradict it!.....

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:14 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

It is a perfectly accurate description as far as i am concerned.

I suspect that you would be unlikely to maintain that position if you were delivering it in person.

Criticise his coaching by all means but when you go personal, you do yourself no favours.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:49 pm  

So can you guys not make the play-offs now then?

I haven't looked at the league table after this week's games yet.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:56 pm  

Would need to win every game but one to be likely to make it. Every game but two to have any chance. Not got a bad fixture list but it doesn't look likely now. Bradford boss Steve McNamara said: "I think discipline cost us in the first half and I thought we were looking quite strong and OK, and then every time we got them where we wanted we let them off the hook. The first try we conceded came on the back of us being in complete control. "I am now concerned about us getting up and running for next week. I still think there were a whole lot of positives to take out of the game. We were in control at the start and the stats will show we were in Hull KR territory for most of the game. "It's not all doom and gloom but we were way off the mark during the second half apart from the initial 10-minute period. Certainly things are not going for us and we have to stay strong. Hopefully the tide will turn. We scored a great try in the first half and then lose the guy who created it (Paul Deacon) with a head injury." Link

Would need to win every game but one to be likely to make it. Every game but two to have any chance. Not got a bad fixture list but it doesn't look likely now. Bradford boss Steve McNamara said: "I think discipline cost us in the first half and I thought we were looking quite strong and OK, and then every time we got them where we wanted we let them off the hook. The first try we conceded came on the back of us being in complete control. "I am now concerned about us getting up and running for next week. I still think there were a whole lot of positives to take out of the game. We were in control at the start and the stats will show we were in Hull KR territory for most of the game. "It's not all doom and gloom but we were way off the mark during the second half apart from the initial 10-minute period. Certainly things are not going for us and we have to stay strong. Hopefully the tide will turn. We scored a great try in the first half and then lose the guy who created it (Paul Deacon) with a head injury." Link

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:06 pm  

70 Tries scored 93 Tries conceded says it all realy.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:07 pm  

UnleashKeith Carnegie wrote:

So can you guys not make the play-offs now then?

I haven't looked at the league table after this week's games yet.

It's mathematically possible, but realistically very very unlikely. Bradford are 7 points behind Warrington & Cas (8th & 9th places) with a game in hand, and (I think??) 8 games left. With more teams than usual having a lot to play for over the next couple of months due to the playoffs being expanded to 8 teams, they are going to have to win pretty much every game. They still have to go to Huddesfield, and have Wigan up next at home, both of these are going to be tough games. The rest look a lot more winable, but then again, so have many games so far this season which haven't been won. Last week's loss to Cas was the killer in my opinion.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:09 pm  

If I remember correctly initial criticism of McN was met with 'give him time to put his own team together', well he has put a team together and in any other season it's one that would be relegated, but of course now the spin is wait until he puts another team together built around the future which is all about youth.

To add insult to injury he's also overseen the worst collapse by a team in SL and in the CC, bred a lack of confidence in defense which is contagious amongst even previously experienced players and has admitted on a number of occasions he has no idea how to fix it.

I admire the sheer persistence of those defending him, but the evidence is now so overwhelmingly that he is out of his depth that the club must act.