Playing Fax at the Summer Bash is a nightmare tbh.

I saw a post (on here I think) when Kear was sacked saying changing coach was like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. I don't know about that its more like the Mary Celeste

I think the turnaround would need to be nothing short of miraculous to be anything other than an absolute hammering by Halifax.

I wonder, have Bradford ever dismissed two coaches in a season? I feel for MD he has been given an almost impossible task but I am struggling to see where he turns this season around to make it feel like we've turned a corner and bring some hope for 2023.

We might squeeze past Workington and possibly Whitehaven who are both awful - especially Worky

Beyond that, it's difficult to see where another win is going to come from.

think the talk of 2016 probably isn't helpful. I don't buy it for the sole purpose that why would Wood after 2 years, put himself through fh a fans forum right before we got bust

Listening carefully to MD during the after match interview, he said "there's a lot going on behind the scenes at the club - you can ask players not to read into it as many times as you want, but they're human beings and they do - on the back of that confidence is low". Really says most of what some have suspected for a while now. Doesn't sound too good for the future, or am I reading too much into MD's words ?

Possibly, but would victories over either of those sides off much hope? Last game of the season is versus Widnes at Odsal, I am calling it now.. John Kear will stick 30 past us and will be punching the air in the dug outs. The loyal band of 900 or so Bulls spectators will then trudge back up the steps in utter despair.

The social media guy will then post a patronising message on Facebook.

Just been watching the "highlights" of the match. Barrow's 1st try past our non-existent right hand defence, and the 3rd try where 4 of our defenders were on to the Barrow player - and he still got the ball away, were absolutely dreadful. Never mind the rest of their tries which were equally as painful to watch.
Barrow made us look like a third rate side.
I might have gone to the bash to watch the team against Halifax, but this has totally turned me off - we'll be a laughing stock if Fax turn up in some kind of form, and no matter what state our team is in, I can't stand there and watch humiliation.

I recall a few years ago Gaskell clough and Ferguson all signed for Huddersfield they spent the last 3 or 4 months at bradford on the sick milking money out of the club apart from Ferguson who did get on the field and try, Gaskell did the same at Huddersfield before joining wakefield and oddly enough he is on the sick again, point I’m making is if the players of todays squad are capable of not putting it in now, the surely it looks bad on them when they go and join another club, people should spot this and put a question mark at side of them a bit like a race horse, classed as ungenuine, we ain’t going to make the play offs that’s for sure, we obviously have to pay them till the season is over, ask them if they want to go now and get shut, it’s not fair on the paying fans, you players who ever you are should remember what goes around comes around, one day something will happen and you will wonder if that’s bad calma, your the lowest of the low, your not only fraud it the club but your frauding the people who pay your wages, shame on you

Scott is a decent player but someone told me his knee is permanently shot and has been advised to retire? That was whilst at York and yet here he is trying to get through another season.

Would be interested to know why Scurr is not getting a game? Last year he was being courted by Saints but now he can't get a game in a mid-table championship side on a losing streak?

Something is going badly wrong behind the scenes!!!

Scurr is injured. MD confirmed that a couple of weeks ago.

Even the T&A who are normally very passive about how woeful we are said "there was a lack of passion, confidence and leadership.". The fact that we have added insult to injury by not only being sh.it, but also not giving a shi.t that we are sh.it is a new low.

Shades of 2016. When we had trouble at t'mill our performances suffered.

You guys are reading far too much into those comments I think. When MD says things happening behind the scenes he probably means the players like Fleming being unhappy and being moved on. Unhappy players in the squad are bound to lower morale.

Starting rumours on here about financial issues will only make things worse, and unless someone can point me towards some actual evidence of this being the case, I suggest we pack it in now. I expect better from some of the people on here.

Not heard anything and I would expect non-payment of bills to be public very quickly and there's been none of that yet. But MD's comments were concerning, there's no denying that.

In all honesty I think it's more MD trying to look for excuses for the players. He's early in his tenure as coach and probably isn't wanting to throw the players under the bus already, so lines like "there's lots going on behind the scenes" is probably just convenient lines to hide behind and try protect the players a little.

It's not as if this team has just fallen off the edge of the cliff, they've been weak all year (Fax, Sheffield, Barrow etc)