@TheGameCaller: I'm hearing that an independent liquidator will be looking into the administration and subsequent sale of the Bradford Bulls.

Surely not again?

yes, THIS. No fun being the meat in the sandwich of getting the owners giving you several loan players every few weeks that you sharpen up so they get recalled at the e3nd of the month, and players that wont play. and the players never suffer do they, well known fact, so he had to wait to get something out of a completely s**t situation. I would want a payoff if I was in a no win situation, where the two other parties to the avoid relegation deal were just not performing.

yes, but not the point, its the sheer number not the quality - and dont forget there werent any loan players on the list, of which theres been a few.

Probably in regards to getting the 6 points back.

Also Noble for me, knows the game well, has a point to prove after Salford and knows Bradford well.

Nothing to do with the six points. It's an investigation into circumstances surrounding how we entered admin being done at OK's instigation.

Hindle 13's response to FA is how i see it too, a change was needed purely to reset the player - coach relationship and get them playing again.

The teflon coated clown has survived at the club for ages and it is extremely difficult to see why.

Still, no doubt he will still be there when the new guys come in, bootlicking and preparing his usual press releases full of half-truths and utter nonsense.

Cannot fault him for that - as that is what most press releases are full of

FC obviously couldn't be the disciplinarian all the time as he had a tiny squad. If he dropped everyone that looked like they couldn't be d then there'd be nobody left.

It doesn't give you much room for manoeuvre.

My two-penneth still remains, like a junior doctor, Cummins doesn't know what he doesn't know. And that, to me, was how to fix the defence, hopefully a more experienced coach will come with fresh eyes and the know how to change what needs changing. Players dropping in and out left, right and centre is another thing, but look at Wigan, they have kids slotting into roles at times because the system is the same throughout. I won't discount the squad size difference in that example but we are very much past using 30 players ourselves now for at least a month each time. And for whatever reason, they'd rather leave and park their s than play for the Bulls.

If so then it further enhances why he should not be getting a wage from the club then. If anyone can make up anything and carry on without any comeback then we hardly need an "expert" in the field.

I always thought that you could be the disciplinarian, in any size squad, but only as longs as the players bought in to your methods and accepted your right to that role. A fair analogy would be a world champion boxer being bawled out by his five foot nothing cornerman between rounds. Physically the boxer could even kill the guy with minimal effort but instead listened and acted on the hairdryering simply because he respected the cornerman's opinions and trusted him.

I have often said we need a leader of men as coach, and wondered whether, whatever his other qualities, Cummins was that. I am not convinced. His recent public damning criticisms of his players in the press did signal the end though because doing that is always past the point of no return. Ferres doing it was one thing, but the coach is quite another.

The inescapable fact is that we are way better than we have been playing, and he hasn't been able to either fix it, or even produce a tolerable level of performance in THE key game of the whole season, which outrageously and inexcusably limp, toothless and rank 80 minutes was the final nail in his coffin.