I don’t quite get it that way. Since Wood took over I get the feeling the off field stuff has slowly improved year on year. The new commercial guy seems to building links with local businesses, there are small but incremental improvements to the stadium. But it is all incremental- I don’t think we’ll ever be in a position to say to a coach that the playing budget has gone up by 50% But more likely 5%, that sort of thing.

And we still portray ourselves to the RL world as a big club.

We run a first team, reserves, scholars, womens team, wheelchair team, disability team. We still have a senior dance troop and the junior dancers. In short , we still do all the things we used to in SL. How many other clubs still do all that? Do we need to have a conversation about priorities?

Fair enough. Maybe its about communicating better with the fans then?

Because I wasn't really aware of some of that (my excuse could be that I don't live in Bradford anymore)

We’re not a big club now and no-one sees us that way.

We have the potential to be a big club again but I genuinely fail to see how that happens without a sizeable, sustained investment.

What’s Danny Brough up to these days?

No ex Leeds players please..

Got to feel sorry for Kear although it's the right decision. Feel sorry because I felt he was assembling a good squad which was ripped apart in the last financial meltdown, Minicello,Ryan,Storton, Milne's and Keyes gone to Hull K R . All except Keyes playing regular SL.

They would have all gone anyway, the championship is the gateway to superleague, we won’t have such as Doyle next year as he will end up at a superleague club for sure

Surprised no one has mentioned John Duffy yet.
Aggressive (maybe a little grubby!) and expansive rugby. Both things we desperately need.

Hang on, so we're NOT famous anymore?

So 2 hours after John Kear gets sacked, then Widnes get rid of Simon Finnigan....bit of a coincidence ?

Not sure if Finnigan is the right man so I hope it’s not him. But if it turns out to be him, I’ll get behind him for the rest of the year.

Finnigan has just been ousted (mutual consent blah blah) with a similar record to Kear this year. Unless I'm missing something, I'm not sure signing him would be logical.

12 months too late for me but good luck to him. I thought we underperformed in League 1 with the squad and have never looked like progressing in the Championship. I don't see us any further forward than the day he arrived, apart from the fanbase is even more demoralised at the standard of rugby.

If there's no investment then why is Wood here? Similarly if we can't compete with Leigh and Fev budget wise, then we must look to create our own excitement with an attacking, offloading dynamic game. 5k to watch that dross on Good Friday tells you we're still the only club in the championship capable of generating its own momentum if there's something to get behind. There is no economic model for boring rugby at Odsal.

Does anyone think we'll end up with Mark Dunning?

I don't really know anything about the guy, and I don't know if he'd even want the job permanently. But it certainly ticks the 'cheap' box.

If we win the next couple is the call for Dunning going to become irresistible?