I'll give McNamara his due, he certainly knows how to try and deflect the blame elsewhere!

Just about all the players in the squad have proved to have a reasonable pedigree under other coaches or at other clubs. It's the coaching they are currently receiving, nothing else.

They quit the game altogether I know that one of those got a very good offer at Wakefield but decided against it, he;d just had enough of the game after having his spirit broken.

I'm still concerned about the whole "we're not playing as we're coached" I'm sure that's not the first time that's been said either.

So that leaves us a few explainations.

1. McNamara has a discipline problem. He can't enforce his ideas and tactics on the squad and it's left the squad unsure as to what they're supposed to do in given situations

or

2. The team want rid of McNamara and are purposely playing poorly.

Personally I hope it's 1 and if McNamara had a more seasoned hand guiding him a la Tony Smith & Jimmy Lowes at Wire, that the team would be able to turn it around. I'd hate option 2 to be correct. Because if it is then every single player that's turned out this year has spat in the face of the Bradford fans and don't deserve to play the game let alone wear Bradford colours

Either way it can't be let to continue.

No it can't. The club MUST do something now before we slip any further. But without knowing exactly what the root cause of all this is there's no way of saying what the right solution (if there is one) would be

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So bloody frustrating, isn't it?

There is option 3) The players are not good enough to consistently play the way they are coached.

Seems to me that its basically a recruitment rather than a coaching problem. If you continue to recruit inconsistent players (Solomna, Platt, Jeffries, Sykes etc) you get inconsistent performances.

As i stated earlier, players like the aforementioned were consistent performers at previous clubs. It doesn't take a genius.

That's not what the Wakey fans told us about those we signed from them...

That probably is a part of the problem.

The confidence factor and losing becoming "habit" must also be starting to take effect.

These are obvious things looking from the outside in though aren't they?
It is the deeper rooted, covered problems I (and the rest of you) want to know about.

So your salary capped team is getting walloped by other salary capped teams because of the salary cap?

Meh - speculation as to which clubs use these and to what extent.

Anyway, if all of those things were permitted under the cap, then more fool those who didn't bother IMO.

And if all or some were not, then more fool those now having their collars felt by HMRC . . .

Anyway, back to the original topic . . .

Your team at the moment isn't exactly brimming with youngsters, throwing a couple in (a la Ainscough and Tomkins at wigan when the chips were down) isn't going to do them any harm.

It's a cop out as far as I'm concerned and rather than interpreting the "we're not playing as we're coached" line as a prompt to shift blame from the coach to the players, I would ask myself why the coach isn't able to get the players to listen to and act upon his instructions (which after all is his job).

I really like Steve Mac, but I think he's a little out of his depth. Someone made a very interesting point on here recently when they said it would be intriguing to hear an (honest) assessment from the likes of Menzies and Morrisson.