Ok, ok I'm going to stop the banter now before you start getting serious.

I'm always serious about things that I am passionate about.

So am I, but I'm used to being able to have a bit of light banter with fellow fans who don't turn it into an argument.

. . . . . or perhaps he's just simply posted previously under other, more well known , names???

Still not much sign of positives from the great mans' fan club I see?

I take it you mean Sam Burgess only stopped at the club because of McNamara. I find that utter nonsense but how long do you think he'll want to stop in a failing side I'd guess at not long.

Strange your alias on another forum said you couldn't make it last night.

If he was a top coach coaching a team at the top maybe they would have signed for Bradford? Fair enough, it is not his fault that the Bird deal did not come off but he must have have an "inkling" that it might not go through for reasons previously discussed on here?

However, instead of trying to defend him by stating the couple of half decent names he failed to sign, how about you comment on some of these names and judge him on what he has actually brought to the club? I will even list them so that all you have to do is give your opinion....

Platt -
Sykes -
Nero -
Tupou -
McAvoy -
Tadulala -
Sheriffe -
Finnigan -
Evans -
Godwin -
Solomona -
Worrincy -
Jeffries -
Morrison -
Menzies -
Scruton -
Feather -


Admittedly some of them have not played too much yet but there is plenty there to get your teeth into.

If McNamara was ever to leave Bradford Sam would retire from the game.

I have supported SM recently. Last year was a poor season and we needed to make up for that this season.

The reason that we still go into most games as favourites is because we have some good talent in the squad. But we just dont do it on the field.

However SM has now been given sufficient time and we need to be producing the goods this season.

Could another coach bring more out of the current crop of players. I think they probably could. Sick of underachievement, got to be one of the most frustrating things in sport aswell as life generally.

My patience is wearing very thin, i am willing to give the bloke a few more games but if there is not a vast improvement soon I will want him gone.

Some good (notably Morrison, Scruton and Sykes) but mostly poor (notably McAvoy, Platt and Jeffries) but for me the worst decision is the release of Ryan Atkins. To see a player represent another team, look good but then disappoint when you sign him may on occasions be forgiveable. To have a quality player in your squad, work closely with him and then release him is terrible.

It's not his signings that have been the major problem to me. He took over as coach during a period where we couldn't buy the kinds of players other clubs were, hence why we saw the likes of McAvoy coming into the club, who acquited himself as well as he could during that year he was at Bradford.

There are a few good signings smuttered amongst the list, but like I said, to me that's not the concern.

The main worry is how we look on the field, which to sum up in a word would be "lost". Our conditioning also looks a concern, I know you might get the odd knock, but in the opening two games we've had four players going off the field with knocks IIRC (Solomona & Langley, Deacon & Burgess). I raised this concern last year before Cardiff, when we lost both half-backs to the same injury (hamstring).

Is that really the worst decision?