[Bullseye]

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:34 pm  

A thing I'm looking for this year is to see us improve around the ruck. In attack we need to take the ball up with more purpose so we can get a quick ptb. Players need to work on getting the right body position so they don't get turned over.

In defence we need to get bodies in the takle and prevent the opposition doing the above to us.

This area's been a problem for some time against Hudders it was more apparent than ever.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:40 pm  

martin @ bulls wrote:

Brian Noble

are you having a laugh!!!!! forgive me if this has been replied to but i couldn't read thru all of em before replying....brian noble = joke FACT!

rode on the back of matty elliott and bri smith....yeah we won stuff but he did nothing and we're still playing the same game....which is getting us no where....so I say again Noble = joke!

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:29 am  

If noble came back i would pretty much burn my season ticket - Keep Macca, get shut of Platt & Newton, Platt is generally a nightmare and Newton has totally hit the wall, slow and boring

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:30 am  

!RYAN! wrote:

Keep Macca, get shut of Platt

The same Macca that recently rewarded Platt with a new three year deal you mean?

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:03 am  

With few exceptions, you can never really go back. Besides which, other than "it's a job" why would Nobby want to return to Odsal? There is more to the guy than that . . . . . surely?

He did everything that could be done in the game last time. Returning would only, regardless of the way the current squad may be playing, be seen as failure/not doing as well. Not something someone like Nobby would like on his CV.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:31 am  

We could do no worse than pulling out all the stops to persuade Brian McDermott to come back to Bradford.

Long association with the club and he's doing a very good job with limited resources at Quins.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:35 am  

As long as he brings mccarthy scarsbrook with him

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:16 am  

DILLIGAF wrote:

We could do no worse than pulling out all the stops to persuade Brian McDermott to come back to Bradford.

Long association with the club and he's doing a very good job with limited resources at Quins.

I'd quite like to see Big Mac back. Even if he did cross over to the dark side for a bit.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:36 am  

DILLIGAF wrote:

We could do no worse than pulling out all the stops to persuade Brian McDermott to come back to Bradford.

Long association with the club and he's doing a very good job with limited resources at Quins.

If we had their results and recruitment, people on here would be spitting chips. After all, limited resources are just excuses, aren't they?

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:05 pm  

Some major dummy spitting on here. Two games in, one draw and one loss (by a small margin) and everyone is on McNamara's back.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this is the Warrington MB - a team who have spent big, never achieved in SL and are staring down the barrel of 3 straight defeats - none of which have been close and the last one against arguably inferior opposition conceding 48 points!

I know McNamara's got his problems and personally I don't rate him much as a coach but surely you have to give him more time given the disjointed start to the season.