Low confidence is an obvious answer now but if the team started the season low on confidence then that's a clear problem before we started.

I'd say another disrupted pre-season friendly program (thanks RFL) combined with early season injuries to senior first choice players (Solomona, Langley, Deacon, Morrison) and a generally more competitive competition has left us the wrong side of close games and a couple of thrashings leading to eroding confidence.

Well this poll didn't really have the option I would go for.

I no longer feel McNamara is up to the job and we need a change at head coach. We should look for a replacement and he should be appointed asap. That replacement should be carefully selected though, if getting the right bloke means waiting till the end of this season then so be it. This season is pretty much over as far as us having any chance of being in the mix for trophies is concerned (though we never really were at the races IMO).

However, we shouldn't be waiting too long Next season is crucial, we must turn the corner and have optimism return to the club before then or dwindling attendances and lower season ticket sales will mean the clubs immediate future would be in jeopardy.

It's all very well to cite a lack of money as the reason we can't change the coach but I don't think any of us have any real hard information on that front. What I do know is if the current decline continues then we certainly will not have any money for anything at all before long, unless we've reached the point of no return already. If that's the case then I really don't fancy watching this car crash unfold any further.

How come there's no option covering the possibility that he's doing a fantastic job and getting all your players performing way above their abilities?

Wow. Didn't think I would see you type that. But as a consequence & in support of Macca one of my aliases has just voted option 1.

I thought the same!!

The dark side of the tendency is STRONG!!!

Because they didn't eat their bloody Shredded Wheat like I told them, that's why!!! The buggers never listen to what I tell them to do!

(Sorry for late reply; I was busy watching something a tad more worrying).

Well if you earn >£150k I have no sympathy.

Me neither. But since I don't, or a fraction of that, its not that that is concerning me. Its the unbelievable burden of debt this government has landed us with, and how are we EVER to repay it? Write this down someplace and bring it out in a year or so: massive job cuts in the public sector, and large tax increases on the man in the street - whoever is in power. He's bet the country on a return to boom big-time in 2011, something no commentator I've seen expects to remotely happen. If that does NOT happen, then watch for what I just said becoming inevitable.

Sorry...back to topic now...

Yes, I blame Macca for the crazy budget deficit - he clearly has to go...