Er...so is that of many of the senior squad...

Its getting a bit worrying that we keep hearing "xyz's defence is not up to scratch yet" about various different youngsters.

Maybe there is some common denominator here? Hmm...

Hmmm wonder why that is.

Penny for them, Red?

Did you ever here about the youth system in place before Macca was here getting walloped everyweek?

So much for his so called legacy, IMO the Bulls are now recruiting lesser quality youngstersand training methods are worse since this system change that Macca and his crew put into place.

The poor results and tiny trickle of of youngsters a long way short of a good SL quality moving into the 1st team kind of back this up.

I think we are just going to have to accept that change takes time Michael.

I think a clearout is what we need, some players are not pulling their weight. That just showed on sunday we are so lazy in defence. getting rid of lee st hilaire has to be a must.

i think bradford need to let a fair few of the average squad players go and bring in some real quality to go alongside the good players you already have and the really good youngsters you have.
possible team for next year
1.kearney
2.ah van
3.pomeroy?
4.Lulia
5.raynor
6.briggs
7.
8.scruton
9.lestrange
10.lynch
11.elima
12.whitehead
13.langley
subs
14.burgess
15.diskin
16.kopczak
17.donaldson
a top halfback and 2 good centres needed and that side could be a top 6 without doubt

Make that a top halfback (who does not suck his thumb and cry for mummykins at night and hold his willy for comfort in bed), another good centre (you have ignored our already -announced signing) and a mean nasty hardcase niggling barsteward of a forward.

yeh sorry forgot about keith im not to sure on your quota but pomeroy could be a good signing him and keith in the centres and ah van and raynor as wingers looks good to me

Something is drastically wrong, either the kids we're recruiting just arn't good enough or the way they are being coached isn't. IMO its a mixture of both. We can wait as long as we want but as far as im concerned the longer we wait for the current system to work the longer we'll be waiting for change for the better.

Something has got to give because Medley and Barrow certainley arn't producing a good enough quality player from the academy to make a impact in this squad.

The problem with Raynor IMO is that he is a winger who does not score very many tries!

mainly because he rarely gets any service. only time he gets ball generally is when he comes in field looking for it.

Most of the games Bradford have won might have been exciting, tense affairs but hardly a feast of flowing rugby. They just don't have the centres to enable them to do that.