I'm not sure which sites are the best so I've copied here a posting which I made on the Bulls Forum:
At what point are we, the fans, going to say "enough" and really start to make our feelings known? I have followed Bradford since the 1950s and have seen bad times and good times. I understand the financial imperatives at play, I understand the problems with injuries, I understand that the players are not performing at their best BUT, I have spent a lifetime as a senior manager and I can recognise without any shadow of doubt when the problem in an organisation is management. I'm sure that Steve McNamara is a superb operational second-in-command but the skills needed to be a good operational coach are completely different from the analytical, strategic skills needed to be a Head Coach, motivator and tactician. Sadly Mr M does not have these skills. I understand that Peter Hood is a businessman and has worked hard to get the club into good financial shape BUT there is no point having money in the bank if we have no fans left, no sponsors left and face leaving Super League within a few years. Season ticket sales for 2010 will be dire. This is money up-front which can be invested for the season. Without it we'll be playing catch-up all next season.
We must do something now to get the club back on to a firm footing. We need a new coach with good analytical and tactical skills who can watch each game unfold, assess the opposition on the day, have a running game plan which can be transmitted and actioned swiftly as the game unfolds. Half-time talks should see a coach with a clear plan to tackle the inadequacies exposed in the first half, taking account of the oppostion on the day, the weather conditions, the referee's particular predilections that day, the lighting, the wind direction etc etc. Does anyone on the terraces really think on present showing that our coach has the ability to do this? Sadly he clearly has not. If he did then we would see the result after half-time as tactics were changed to bring us back into the game by exposing weaknesses in the other side and closing loopholes in our own.
I shall miss the Wigan game (first one missed for a long time) due to other commitments but will be at every other home game. Will the rest of the fan base do something - anything - to stop this rot? A sit-down protest? An organised delegation? A petition? I don't know what is the best way forward but I do know that we must do something.
