Simpler than that.

Not enough quality players.

Same players as was 4th in SL at half way though

Simple answer...............

1 Dave Halley
2 Rikki Sheriffe
3 Paul Sykes
4 Chris Nero
5 Stuart Reardon

Tbh that back line is NL standard not SL standard..... you have signed too many shocking backs.

Kearney, Orford, Lynch & Menzies are wasted with THAT in front of them unfortunately!

Not spending full cap BUT spending fair bit on Marquee player/s = thin squad poor on quality in some areas = disproportionately affected by injuries especially to key players.

Head coach and marquee player/s not seeing eye-to-eye???

Because of a gypsy curse placed on the Bulls after we wouldn't buy her lucky 'eather because we were skint.

We KNOW the team can play well - we saw it at the end of last season/beginning of this.

Disruption of coach leaving? Maybe they have abandonment issues?!
Injuries to key players? Possibly - we have a light squad and have had players out or playing below full strength (personally I think the team have been lacking in general fitness for the last few seasons)
Predictable game plans and lack of imagination? Once your opponents know how you play you need to evolve or lose - maybe Macca was keeping the good plays for England?
Poor quality players? Again, we know they can play well so I don't buy into this and they all seem to have done OK elsewhere.
Confidence? Possibly but some of these players should have the experience to deal with this and help their team mates.

If it was just one thing and was simple it would have been sorted weeks ago. Maybe the players get upset at the slating they get on here?!

Edited for accuracy .


I haven't voted BTW

Hope you get things sorted soon . It really is a shame that a team as mighty as the Bulls have suffered such a string of results as you are having .

Looking forward to you been back up where you belong . As fans you lot must be devastated by recent form and events . Some of us really do feel for you .

Easy...

Team told by coach "despite the setbacks, together we can prove them all wrong"

then...

"and by the way, I'm off!"

The man has a point...

All of the above! You didn't put that option Den!

Lots of different reasons over the season, but for today and the last few games I'll go with rank bad tackling coupled with trying to beat well organised well drilled teams, irrespective of player quality of the opposition, with no half backs. (for the sake of this argument I'm sticking to Sykes being a weak , Kearney being an excellent full back, L'Estrange being a decent hooker and Addy being a very promising 13....but none of them being a regular half back)

Its also no coincedence how many games we've lost since the double effect of McNamara announcing he's off and Orford being off. I predict we'll only win 1 maybe 2 of our games left.

It's interesting you are now suggesting this Adey, it's not something I had really considered. There doesn't seem to be that type of player (egotistical) at Odsal. Orford & Menzies are the only marquee players & both seem totally commited professionals to me. However you have a team far too good to lose 9 in a row, so there is/has been something seriously lacking between the coach & players for some time.

Not quite true. The players that got us to 4th are ot have been injured for a greater part of the time since. There are not enough quality players. WE could arguably have coped with the amount of injuries we have had if we could have picked which players got injured.