people on here other than a few dare even praise macca, with the resources available to him hes doing a great job in my opinion and it will be ridiculous if he doesn't get a new contract

The thing about Evans and the fitness is he's not had much time with the squad yet and if it's already having a positve effect then it could pay dividends later in the year. It's a long season and we may not have been spectacular but we are plodding along nicely so to speak. It would be really nice for the lads to hit their straps both fitness and skill wise at the right end of the season.

They will be silenced soon when he takes on the england job and they get thier wish of getting nobby back!

Edited for accuracy.

Results have improved but the level of performance in the vast majortity of games is the same poor.

How do you square those two seemingly-conflicting observations though? Especially given that, by general consent, the overall quality of the competition has probably improved this season?

Well whilst we continue to get the results I will happily accept what you call 'poor' performances. For what it is worth I think our performances have improved significantly from last year. I think this side still has a fair bit of improvement in it yet, the big test is whether Macca can deliver that improvement.

I have only seen one poor performance this year and that was against St Helens. At this moment in time we shouldn't be discussing who should be the next Bulls' coach!

why is anyone even talking about a new coach or still providing poor performances, this time last season i believe we were 10th or 11th, the performances were very poor and yes i agree the only really bad performance this season has come in the game against Saints, people need to to believe in the coach and this team's ability more, i dont expect trophies but we are improving and under the current circumstances we are doing are good job, competing and easily beating teams who are spending much more on the cap than us!

Granted we are doing much better this season but I still have my doubts on McNamara

The games against Quins, Salford and Crusaders were shocking too.