I pretty much agree with that. I think you can add in the point that after they miss a few tackles they become frightened of making even more mistakes so are, maybe, reluctant to get involved? That's not being lazy or not fit it's mental attitude. There does seem to be a lack of trust between defenders too, but that's hardly surprising given the way we are playing.

I think we've probably got a bit too used to losing or things not going our way so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Potter's trying to build a winning culture but it won't happen overnight and it requires all the players to work a lot harder to get out of this hole.

Is that Bradford or the bottom of SL to which you refer?

Sadly, your argument bears all the hallmarks of being irrefutable.

Without dredging up up an old topic I read this piece from Nobby www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... _1_3372417 The part where he worked under Brian Smith & Matty Elliot made a salient point re when Macca took over he hadn't got any one looking over his shoulder on a day to day basis and reminded me of Wayne Bennetts philosophy that a Head Coach needs 5-7 years as an assistant beforehand!

Without dredging up up an old topic I read this piece from Nobby www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... _1_3372417 The part where he worked under Brian Smith & Matty Elliot made a salient point re when Macca took over he hadn't got any one looking over his shoulder on a day to day basis and reminded me of Wayne Bennetts philosophy that a Head Coach needs 5-7 years as an assistant beforehand!

Nobby talks a lot of sense. Any team that has him on board in some capacity is better for it.

You can be confident Halifax will turn things around.

That sounds about right mat.

That sounds very much about right Mat...Nobby said at the Fans' Forum just before his leaving was announced that he had told Macca that it might be very much in his interest to hang around. I have the exact transcript of what he said somewhere in my notes.

As Bulliac says, though, I too have made the ground-breaking discovery that -no matter how much some people might wish it to be otherwise - you cannot change history.

I've read bits of the bible & am not too sure.

That's that's the kind of thing that's caused no end of bother. I blame King James, if he'd not allowed the translations into English, you'd just have to accept what the scholars told you was in there and we'd all be a lot happier. I think.

I'm sure [ihe[/i was quite conversant with it TT, but my reference was actually to the fact that it allowed the chattering classes and lower orders, such as ourselves, to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the texts. It's caused nothing but bother I tell 'ee....