Just when we needed a speech and performance of Chuchillian proportions along the lines of ....

'We shall not flag or fail, we shall go onto the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on our 40 metre line, we shall fight in their half, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength, we shall defend our super league status whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in every tackle, we shall fight on their line and ours. We will fight at every play the ball, we will fight at every scrum. We will never surrender.'

Instead we got Neville Chamberlain and appeasement.

Enough is enough ... Chamberlain and his cabinet must go!!

It is embarrassing how poor we were yesterday. The Catalan side did not even have to be that good, yet still they nearly hit 50 points and nearly nilled us. This, being the same Catalan side that nearly (and should have) drew with the mighty London just last week.

We are soft, uninventive, slow, predictable and pretty much beaten before we start at the moment. The lack of confidence is sadly worse than the lack of ability in the side.

There is just nothing at all that gives me any hope whatsoever that we can get out of this.

T misquote a Nobbyism the Bulls needed to come out like George Foreman but came out like George Formby.

The reason London are looking more competitive is because they are now getting a settled side whereas the Bulls are having to make do with too many injuries and also loans coming & going and while that's happening no Team in any League will put in decent let alone winning performances. Its not going to change much but if Franny is allowed a more settled side improvement will come, more gritting of teeth by long suffering Fans still needed.

"I have in my hand a piece of paper, signed by Harris himself."

T misquote a Nobbyism the Bulls needed to come out like George Foreman but came out like George Formby.

Classic comedy moment that...

A nodding dog?

Dear God. Club apologist number one is back.

Well, 'tis a better, more positive, attitude than those who moan at everything and rarely have a good word for anyone at the club, don't you think, Eddie?

What on earth can we say positively at the moment? Well at least we scored? At least we didn't concede 50 points for third week in a row. I can take us losing. But we are getting absolutely smashed every single game. It is painful to watch at how bad we are. The standard of passing, attacking setup, organisation, kicking game, ability to tackle, defensive line speed, aggression, leadership. Everything is abysmal at the moment. They are full time players earning wages some of us could dream about. Yet the young lad Bates who is only part time and hardly any SL experience as shown more guts, effort and quality than some of our well paid senior players. There is NOTHING to be positive about at the moment. A part time championship club would be shipping the amount of points we are at the moment.

If you put that team out in C1 and they played with that attitude then they would lose plenty of C1 games too. Any committed team has a good chance against a bunch of disinterested players many of whom are "not prepared" to work.

Actually I am afraid it just makes him look utterly clueless. To come away with that sort of rubbish is embarrassing and deeply insulting to us all.

I think there is severe lack of confidence at the moment. To be honest, everyone just seems to be off form at the same time. That's why you get the incidents like we had between Gaskell and Foster, when neither wanted to field the kick in the first half. They are both infinitely better than that. I think there is quality in the team but they're just not showing it, hopefully things will improve now we seem to be getting the big men back up front, as you need the forwards to give a platform.

There is also some defensive ability 'cos we've seen that a few times - all be it in between the occasions when they couldn't tackle a light breakfast. Much of making tackles isn't just technique though, it's also in the head and is exactly the same attitude of mind as being in or out of form, and if you feel 'off-form', then when you go for a tackle and don't really expect it to 'stick', then odds are it won't.

We could do with some stability as, with the best will in the world, having loanees constantly coming in and out isn't the best way to run a team - but, of course we can only play the hand we've been dealt, and as fans, the only thing we can do is support the lads; at the end of the day negativity only breeds negativity and that never helps. That said, some people [not you] just seem to enjoy being depressed. Personally I'm looking forward to Sunday and a heroic win against the odds, with so many top performances that we can't decide on man of the match......








though I'm not holding my breath.

Strangely Eddie, I never really felt you'd agree. I sort of see you as the kind of guy who, if he found a fiver on the pavement, would moan 'cos it was a bit damp....

In your opinion........