I'd have thought you'd come to terms with a drop in standards in all aspects of life in Bradford. Your club has the whiff of rigormortis and I'm luvvinn it. Just keep coming over to shelf and Northowram keeping our house prices artificially high........woooo Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Lowes.

I bought into Marc Greens passion and enthusiasm when he arrived.

I bought into the "Do you want a full time SL quality squad? - Will you pay more for it"

However, by sticking to my side of the deal and paying the extra - I do actually want to see a difference between our "full time SL quality squad" and those
squads costing less and training on a part time basis.

So far I cannot tell any difference in any aspect of our game.

I get the "peak at the end" bit - but the performances to date don't give the fans any value for money - its not entertainment - its torture.

Compound this by Ferres having a go at the fans and failing to replace our Income Manager - its not good is it?!

Oh and of course - we don't need a scrum half either do we

What I posted last time.

And the time before.

And the time before that.

Nobody is remotely wanting us to peak so early in the season. The trouble with this lot is they look as likely to ever peak as did Lazarus, except we have JL not JC.

The results, which now include not only an inability to successively beat Batley, Dewsbury and now Halifax - which is bad enough - but to look hopeless and inept in the process, have shown conclusively that we are sadly ordinary in a league of well-below SL standard teams.

Although the permanent lack of a scrum-half has hobbled us, and is the biggest condemnation, still the players that we have should look a class above the likes of Fax and Batley, and should convincingly put them away, if there was to be any hope. And it is Lowes' job to produce a team that plays organized, ruthless and effective rugby.

We see players who are far better than they are showing, consistently being disorganised, and repeating the same mistakes.

As for Ferres, sure we'd all like to peak at the right time, but playing decent high and convincing brand of rugby is not only necessary, but also to give any credence to some possibility that we might reach a peak lofty enough to beat SL clubs and win promotion. You can't peak if at the time you need to, you are still 7 miles below the peak. Whatever Green and Ferres may say in public, privately they know what we know, that this team is poor, and that it shouldn't be.

As for Ferres, if I thought that sitting through a season full of garbage was the price to pay for promotion, I might even consider it, but clearly it doesn't work like that, plus for the majority of supporters they don't pay their money as some sort of subscription, Ferres should ask himself, if he had advertised that we would play like we are for much of the regular season because it doesn't matter, then how many season tickets would he have sold?

Finally I don't see a happy Gaskell and I don't see a happy O'Brien. That may just be me, and for all I know, they may be ecstatic in what we're doing and how the team plays, but to me they both look pale shadows of the class players they are. And it worries me.

The trap most "peak-too-soon" theorists fall into is making the obviously wrong assumption that our team is not at its peak (and that couldn't be more true) but that everybody else we play, ARE at their peak and that's why we can't beat them. How illogical is that? Logic would dictate that at the same stage of the season, every team would be at a broadly similar percentage of peak.

Well said, Ferocious

Lowes has handed his resignation in. Interesting developments on what happens now.

Must have been, within 10 mins of my post, Lowes had resigned. You can't beat cold hard logic.

Now for signing Glenn Morrison ...

Source??

Interesting.

Nothing anywhere else yet? Twitter? T&A?

What's your source Peter?
I've done a bit of digging on twitter and there's no sign of it...
Fingers crossed

I suspect this could be rubbish.

Unfortunately.

Peter's a big tease.

Yeah i'm thinking so, anyone with the name Peter Hood must have a tendency to talk bollox!
Although someone else has said the same thing on another thread