RFL get all they deserve, even let him have it part time until the 4 nations, he'd struggle full time.
Bradford could have got shut of dead wood, be a few quid in compo better off & maybe unearthed the next top young coach in Steve Menzies.
No real winners only Mcnamara.

Its an absolutely shocking shocking shocking appointment! What on earth are the RFL thinking? What coaching credentials does he have to have this job?

This appointment is the most important one for England. With the very talented youngsters coming though the system it is vital the right man takes charge. Instead McBanana will take charge of Eastmood, Tomkins and a host of other promising youngsters. FFS is this the best the RFL could come up with? Ill struggle to follow the four nations later in the year, save me the pain of watching smug Inglis and Slater laughing at us. Lets just hope the likes of JP, Sinfield and Mozza tell him to stfu go sit in the corner and take charge themselves.

I'm in full agreement mate but do we really expect anything else from this administration?
The Welsh farce,joke disciplinary panels and a Refs boss who has done nothing to improve the whistle blowers since he took the job!

Has anyone told him he can't pick anyone from the Manly veterens XIII?

Not until he's done full family tree search !

God help us.

That's rich, coming from a fan of a team with one more antipodean than us and with a higher average antiopdean age than us. And that, for now at least, is below us in the table?

C'mon Adey.
He signed Platt,Worrincy and Sherriffe FFS even you can't defend that!

I would not know average ages & quantities of antipodeans In different squads, thats not rich mate, thats being a sad tw*t.

No, it's called proving you wrong..... You made a comment he corrected you. Fair enough.

McNamara deserves some support. He's got the job and there's not that many others to choose from. Mcdermott isn't the great choice some would make out either. Nor Kear to be honest.

Prove me wrong on what, I made a light hearted remark on the Manly Vets team, then had a lesson about the average age of antipodians, of which, like Mcnamara I don't really give a flying fu@k about.

Mc Banana & Brian Smith - reminds me of Ronald Regan and George Bush.

Why should I? That has nothing to do with the point I made.

I'll answer your new point though.

He signed a number of relatively cheap players to fill out the squad. He had to. He inherited from Noble a youth development programme in tatters (he's fixed that, and the results are starting to flow through now) and a serious lack of available funding (the club is not able to spend the salary cap - some at Leeds know a major reason why). With the funds he has had available (apparently we have the fifth-lowest player spend in the competition), to be able to bring in Orford, Kearney L'estrange, Hall - and of course Menzies - is nothing short of amazing.

Platt is doing fine in the centres now (at fullback he struggled once his confidence was shot) and Sherriffe has done much better this year after an awful 2009 (albeit with relapses). He was one of our best performers in the opening games. Worrincy went seriously backward after a great start last year, and at present the jury is still out, to put it kindly. Young Whitehead has displaced him. None of them will be major costs to the club.

And as for the MPS creature who so kindly called me a sad twät - well I've been posting on here for many years, and have seen any number of fekkwits like him come and go. The reason I had the age facts was because an even bigger perennial fekkwit on TotalRL was incessantly pedalling the same nonsense. I decided one day I'd show him up for the sad twät HE was.

I am ambivalent.

I thought Mcnamara was a good young coach for some time when he first emerged. That view has diminished a bit with the Bulls demise but that is, in all probability, not his fault.

I know he's very well liked by his players.

The coach of our international set up is not going to push us over the edge in beating the Aussies anyway, we need much more than a coaching change, so why not give a young British coach a chance. It's not like there was loads to choose from anyway.

Our biggest game last year was Hull away as if one more result had have gone our way we would have been in the 8. We won that one.


Or, as many Leeds fans think, the visit of Leeds is every team's cup final, we won that one too.



What has Brian McDermott won?







FWIW, I don't think that McNamara is a brilliant coach, but he's not as bad as most make out. He's been on a limited budget at Bradford, he's got us from unsustainable losing £££££££ to breaking even. He's completely overhauled the youth development and personally encouraged most of our best youngsters (Whitehead, Donaldson, Addy) to come to Bradford instead of Leeds, Wakefield, Cas or Hudds. He's also attracted the likes of Orford & Menzies, again on a limited budget. He's not the messiah, but we could do worse for an international coach.


Btw, for you who think he's a terrible coach, read what JP has to say about him.