I can see both sides of this.

On the one hand I think Ross sees a lot more than most of us by being close to the club on a daily basis. I guess he’s seen a lot of reason to be negative over the past 18 months. He’s fallen out with Lowes and with Caro and I know for a fact that Ferres had a problem with his coverage too. How that all started I don’t know or care really but obviously there are issues. Whether they are Ross’s fault we’ll never know. He could be a completely innocent party.

I also think he puts his spin on things too often but this may be a result of his fallings out with club officials. As a result he’s not an impartial reporter anymore because of the breakdown in relationship. Does he think he’s somehow doing us fans a service by not “toeing the party line”? I’d rather he kept a dignified neutral position and stuck to the facts. The club are perfectly capable of making themselves look daft on their own. The way he writes reminds me of some of Mick’s old posts sometimes when he alludes to things behind the scenes. The tone when describing Green as “sunning himself” or “jetting off” is a bit opinionated for my liking. It may be deserved but that’s a matter of opinion. Is he writing an opinion piece or reporting facts or jumbling up the two?

Despite the awful performance of the first team this season there are positives. We have a good young coach. We are clearing out the failures and the deadwood that got us in this position. We have some superb young players coming through. It’s not all gloom. Sure Ross has covered some of the positives but I think overall the tone is mainly negative. I think he could do himself a favour and cheer up a bit.

How's 'bradford new northern' progressing David? Would have thought you'd have been too busy with that rather than arguing dictionary definitions on here.

the article seems balanced to me, and remarkably similar in sentiment to a recent post on this site, ie that we had the creative spine of the team sorted, now the pack needs short. implicit in that is that a lot of the pack are leaving, whereas Ross with a required number of column inches to generate a day, had to put it in. As he also put in that chisholm isnt put out by the numbers leaving, etc etc.

Ross has done a good job of burying the inforation that not all players were paid yesterday, right at the bottom of hundreds of column inches about Pryce, Rohans comments about the refereeeing and how two refs (two bad refs???) would improve matters, but totally relevant, that refs need to stamp their authority right from the start, then couple of lines about it, that some paid some still waiting. so a big improvement on last month.

...exceot of course for those few, my sympathies to them for the wait, hopefully Green has at least communicated to them!

I think there is a mass exodus of drivel from the T and A's rugby league reporting department.

If rumours are right and certain players are refusing to be available, maybe it is them who haven`t been paid!!!

I’ve heard that Gaskell at least is refusing to risk playing as he has a weak hamstring and is worried about it going in “nothing” games when he has a future to consider.

If that’s the case I’d be studying the fine print of the contract. I’d be pretty unhappy about paying someone in those circumstances.

I'm surprised the same people who constantly criticise him for being negative aren't now on his back for not making a bigger deal out of the negative of some players not being paid.

I wouldn't do that job. I wouldn't be able to resist telling the wuckfits on forums and social media where to go, in nice colourful language.

Sheffield Away - we were leaning on the Bulls dugout for that game... Very interesting to observe the body language at close quarters and overhear conversations.

Without doubt - for me - there were some players on the touchline who showed enthusiasm, passion and commitment to the team, constantly shouting encouragement and hopping up and down with involvement.

Two looked liked they couldn't give a toss - on the field and in the dugout.

I said at the time - Gaskell won't play again this season - (not really knowing for sure) - but thats what his face and body language said...

Other was Clough - unfortunately.

Neither of them hardly bothered to watch their team mates while off the pitch.

Guess they have both still been paid ever since

Ross is a professional journalist and we [as buyers of the T&A] are his customers. It's usually best to be a little more circumspect when talking to customers - even if they're know nothing half-wits who don't know one end of the whistle to another.

Are you referring to Ross's Fan Club from the Bulls comments column?

Absolutely. And he holds back very well from what I've seen. I personally couldn't ignore the comments and outright abuse he gets, which is why I couldn't do the job!

I don't buy the T&A. I just try to defeat its adblocker blocker detection which is shiit, I wish some kindly and brilliant guru like vbfg would explain a way to stop that big fckoff blue banner from popping up over the page despite me having switched ABP off for that site.