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www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/blogPost ... WITH%20OUR I think him and Sean Long should compare pain thresholds after reading his Funny bits at "the End"

I picked up on that bit as well Adey, lets hope they respond this Friday and prove that there not ready to be given up on! I can cope with with not winning but they've got to put the effort in, something that was lacking on Sunday for the majority.

Mr Duffy is hardly gonna say anything else though is he?

We have been on the verge of being a good side for some time now. It is a hell of a verge.

Heard it all before. Actions speak louder than words. Let's see some evidence on the field now.

In my experience verges tend to be full of 5h1t.

Yeah, don't get the religious gig myself either. All they do is show people to their seats anyway, why they need to be so full of themselves is beyond me.

And always saying "mr Mainwaring, Mr Mainwaring the church hall is booked by the Air raid wardens today". Nonces the lot of them.

Given the piece is littered with typos, colloquialisms, poor grammar and double exclamation marks I doubt Duffy had much to do with it on this occasion.

Boring read it all before. Let's see it put into action for a change.

Also the funny stories are never funny they are usually inane and childish. How's about this for a novel idea go into work to do some work and not to mess about with the lads like the poor sods that pay his wages have to do!

I noticed at the end of the piece on Scruton in the T&A he mentions that “Steve is working every hour under the sun and the coaching staff are giving us every chance of getting the results. It’s up to us to do the business.”

I imagine that's the message that we're supposed to hear from HQ, but TBH if he is working every hour I wonder what he's doing, because we've had the same problems every season and the same quotes from players/Duffy in the T&A. I'm not sure hard work on his behalf is the answer, unless he's not being doing anything for the last three seasons, which is obviously not the case.

It'd be great to see them turn it around on Friday and I'm hoping that's the case, but I'm afraid they did similar last year here and there, and those victories rang hollow given the repetition of daft mistakes, lack of imagination, outright collapse soon after. I had let myself be persuaded it was all the fault of agent provocateurs in the camp (against my best judgement) but irrespective of whether we win on Friday the quicker we have a change in management the better.

All these comments coming out on the hours McNamara is putting in, how he's always planning and watching game footage, and it's the players fault not the managers are almost identical to those coming out of VP over the last 12 months about McCall. And look how that ended...

Just shows that they both clearly care and want to do well, but despite all the effort neither have cut the mustard where it counts...

Personally in my experience (of working in entirely different sectors to sports teams) a member of management having to work such hours is a symptom of systematic failure. Everyone has to work over now and again but to constantly have to do it suggests problems. Not only that fatigue reduces your ability to think and get the best out of resources especially in a labour intensive environemnt.

Yeah, see examples of it every day in the office, and the over analysis can often lead to not knowing what the best thing to do is so nothing at all gets done. And you have to wonder if he's realising how far out of his depth he is and hopes all the extra hours will counter-balance his natual short comings as a head coach. So far, it hasn't.

Yes, there are problems. Money.

One reason why he, and the other senior managers at the club, have to work such long hours is because the club cannot afford more people. The real benefit of having a sugar daddy is that that is how the improvements in the non-playing staff are funded. How were clubs like Wigan and Hudds and Leeds able to take senior Bulls staff? Look at how many non-playing staff, at all levels, the Bulls have had to lose, often to the competition, over recent years.

If only Caisley had not been so determined to sign Harris.

Without in any way seeking to comment on Macca's coaching ability (others are far more qualified than me to do that) I wonder if the new head coach would be prepared to put those hours in, or accept such a limited budget for his own support team?

I think we are pretty lucky to have such a dedicated team trying to keep this club going, to be honest. As a small example: several times now, one of the Club's (tiny) marketing team has given up her evenings to work with Bullbuilder (and given very valuable input). As she did last night. And she sent an email to us this morning at 6.56am, for God's sake! What does that say about the work ethic and dedication at the club? Come on!

Its a chicken and egg situation though. The worse we do on the park, the less there is to fund the personnel off the park. At the inception of SL, the club was able to buy in senior experienced expertise - Brian Smith, and through him Peter Deakin and so on. Where now are the funds to do something like that?

Despite what Mystic Messiah and his disingenuous dishonesty would have people believe, I would love for the club to be able to bring in more and experienced coaching resources. And off-field resources generally. And I'm sure that view would be very much shared by the club's management team. The only way I can see that being able to happen is if the various directors paid for it personally. If you were a director, reading this forum, would you be minded to shell out a few hundred thousand of your own dosh? I bloody well wouldn't. Equally, as a fan I was bitterly bitterly disappointed - and angry - with what we saw last Sunday. I'm still seething and depressed about it and its nearly bloody Thursday now!

Seems to me we are in a Catch-22 here. I'll say again what I have been saying for ages: does anyone have any practicable ideas for how to break the Catch-22? Cos I'm buggered if I do