Worried : Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:59 pm  

Todays performance and comments form mates and on other threads seriously threaten our club! We are poor at best and i fear that we may find this slide in performance very hard to stop. What is the answer though we have no money!

Look at the state of Bradfuds crowd last night as a result of bad performances week in week out, we don't have that many to start with so WHATS THE ANSWER???????????

I don't call individual players as we have what we have but surely we need some new blood ASAP!

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:07 pm  

Relegation will kill us as a club, we will become a Swinton and relegation candidates is what we are.
Anyone putting a team together looks at 6,7,9,13,1.
We have a 1 playing at centre, a 6 stuck in Aus.
We have no running back rows, no centres and no size upfront.
We cant pass or step and have no pace or skill.
We must realise that SL snr academies are where to hunt players not our own.
We have shown great heart at Widnes and Fev, but heart doesnt draw fans in to be entertained, I fear for our future.

Re: Worried : Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:09 pm  

WHERESYERBALL wrote:

Todays performance and comments form mates and on other threads seriously threaten our club! We are poor at best and i fear that we may find this slide in performance very hard to stop. What is the answer though we have no money!

Look at the state of Bradfuds crowd last night as a result of bad performances week in week out, we don't have that many to start with so WHATS THE ANSWER???????????

I don't call individual players as we have what we have but surely we need some new blood ASAP!

well, lets start there.........

when wigan were in trouble in '06, their fans rallied, as there was a possibility they might be relegated..

bradford fans have just given up on this season, and dont have any incentives to go anymore, since relegation has been scrapped




as for leigh, the style of play is not going to attract the casual supporter, the lack of committment today was shocking, and i think the likes of rudd etc should now be given their chance

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:11 pm  

Bar Mort and maybe one or two others I'd drop the lot of them for Thursdays game and play the reserves!! At least they would show some pride in the shirt and commitment! I'd go as far to say that's the worst performance I've seen since we got beat by 90 odd off Workington in the early 90's!!

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:16 pm  

[quote="Saley"]Bar Mort and maybe one or two others I'd drop the lot of them for Thursdays game and play the reserves!! At least they would show some pride in the shirt and commitment! I'd go as far to say that's the worst performance I've seen since we got beat by 90 odd off Workington in the early 90's!![/quote]


just what we were saying

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:24 pm  

Saley wrote:

Bar Mort and maybe one or two others I'd drop the lot of them for Thursdays game and play the reserves!! At least they would show some pride in the shirt and commitment! I'd go as far to say that's the worst performance I've seen since we got beat by 90 odd off Workington in the early 90's!!

After today i would play a team something like-
1 Donlan
2 Alstead
3 Rudd
4 Higson
5 Stanton
6 Mort
7 Watson
8 Hobson
9 Mcconell
10 Hill
11 Taylor
12 Armistead
13 Rourke

14 Meekin
15 Cookson
16 Durbin
17 Wingfield

For Thursdays game

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:26 pm  

Saley wrote:

Bar Mort and maybe one or two others I'd drop the lot of them for Thursdays game and play the reserves!! At least they would show some pride in the shirt and commitment! I'd go as far to say that's the worst performance I've seen since we got beat by 90 odd off Workington in the early 90's!!

We would then see another 90 point massacre against us on tv.

In Rudd, Cookson Alstead

My Team
Donlan
Mort
Higson if Fit/Reay
Rudd
Alstead if Fit/Stanton
Rourke
Ridyard
Hill
Durbin
Morrison
Taylor
Armistead
McConnell

Cookson
Meekin
Marsh (2nd row, not ball playing)
Reay/Stanton

I would play at pace from PTB with short balls and offloads, spelling the front row to keep the tempo up.

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:55 pm  

Durbin cannot feed quick enough from the PTB, his speed and accuracy in the process of passing is shocking. He is okay going forward but we have Jock and Stanton equally capable in that department. Get Hatton back from Blackpool now - no questions asked. Co0ky and Rudd HAVE to be given chances. Alstead MUST play if fit

Donlan
Mort
Rudd
Alstead
Stanton
Ridyard until we get someone else, if not then maybe Rourke is worth trying
Watson
Hill
Hatton
Morrison
Taylor
Armistead
Rourke/Reay

Cookson
Meekin
Higson
McConnell

Hobson(a prop always get injured but he looked pow fagged in Toulouse),Durbin(good addition if all else fails), Marsh(could go loose if Rourke/Reay unsuccessful - I shouted him before for 6 but admit now this was wrong)

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:00 pm  

Let us not forget though there would only have been two or three players who would have travelled so far for a game before. The different conditions too, a number of players struggled out there today so it must have been warmer there than what it is here.

Some of the handling errors that were made were pretty poor but I thought we got effort if misguided, our own mistakes contributed to our downfall and slow reactions didn't help. Toulouse will quickly move up the table with the shuntings they have given to us and Batley. Forget about that Widnes game at the start of the season for them, its taken them a few games to get up to speed while we are back to the win one, lose one ratio like we had last season.

Some variation needs to be added to our game though, a few dummy runners or switch passes, at times the team does appear to be pedestrian.

: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:56 pm  

Well the result looks disgraceful on paper but I don't know how it looked in person.

I think we've carried the 2nd half against Barrow into todays game. We keep saying the club has no money and if that is the case the current board should be looking for investment somewhere.

Somehow the club managed to pay Doran, TKL, and Moran last season to little effect on the overall finishing position of the club. That now looks like money wasted in hindsight.

We signed Donlan in the off season and then I was waiting for us to sign other guys and nothing happened. The club then seemed surprised when alot of us dont fork out for season tickets although they said they'd keep us updated with how many had been sold (and they didn't)... I mean what do they expect?

I'm very disilussioned with the club at present I've got to say.