Settling for mediocrity, that's just it with us isn't it over the past few years.
It's running from the very top of the club right through to the fans.

And yet you're a fan of a very inconsistent Newton, bizarre logic you have sometimes.

But Newton isn't inconsistent. God knows which games you watch. Obviously not many featuring the Bulls though.

Don't miss many, I suggest you watch the players rather than look out for the 'star' name.

This is why we need the productive junior system so much, we need to fill a SL squad with enough quality and experience to compete, spliting a finite cap amoungst our first team squad made up mainly of players brought in, often older/more experienced players who command a certain level of wage, or "signings of this type" as you put it.

Whereas someone like Leeds for example can put youngsters like Hall on the wing and he's got the quailty to be top try scorer and he's taking up cap space possibly half that of Sheriffe (likely to change when they upgrade his youngsters contract mind!) Spending less on home grown players like Hall and others to fill out the first team squad allows them to spend more on their marque signings and so the squad as a whole looks to be better value for the cap money as the quality of players like Hall dosent match the cap allocated, the same can be said for other teams with productive youth systems - Saints and wigan are also good at this, which is why ours needs (and seems to be getting) serious attention, but not to the extreme detriment of the first team.

With all that unasked for rant out of the way, I'd still take Evans next year with Nero whilst we develop our own talent, and I suspect he would be available too.

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You suggest I watch the players?
What game were you watching yesterday afternoon to think Newton played poor?

Anyway, I do, that's why I notice/d how big of a possitive impact Terry Newton makes to the Bradford Bulls. That's why yesterday I noticed in the 15 minutes after half time when he was on the bench the Bulls went to rat , that's why I noticed when he came back on again we started to play again, that's why I noticed the two tries he created, Thats why I notice he talks to the players alongside him all game, thats why I notice he never stops tackling and working, thats why I notice we go forward when he's on the field and that's why I don't come up with statements like "Newton was poor." and "all he offers is flat passes" despite him being anything but poor and offering a whole lot more than flat passes.

There's a reason Terry Newton has a star name and the status in the game that he does, and it's because he is a consistently good performer and not very inconsistent and very poor as you suggest.

If Newton was to pick up a long term injury tommorow then you would see how costley it would be to Bulls and instead of only just losing games despite being in with a fight, it would be hopelesly losing games and rolling over.

You really need to have another look at what Newton offers us mate, because your opinion of him now is seriously wide of the mark.

We can always rely on mediocre Rinaldi though eh?

I agree, you only have to look at whats happened to the team in the last few weeks when he's gone off the field. Lost all direction, and totally lack a leader!

He needs resigning urgently IMO.

Nah, he's poor and only offers flat passes these days.

You mean some one like Eddie kilroy who always used to get the better of Hall in the U21's/reserves but is kept in the reserves and is now being used as a second rower.

yeah that would fit the bill....

we've got to get the kids playing more this year now to see if they can help the squad next year, once the season is officially a write off (if its not already) get more than one involved on each game day and make it clear to them that its a no lose situation and show what they can do.