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| Quote: Roofaldo "Trouble is Briggs, Walker and Ainscough are both on the injured list.'"
Walker and Ainscough must be close to a return now to be fair. |
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Walker should be fit for KR game. Ainy think is possibly another week or 2 off. Briggs = unknown.
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| Quote: redeverready "Noble didn't release Atkins that was all McNamara's doing.'"
Sorry Red you are wrong there, Noble released Atkins, that came from Atkins himself. He lives in Leeds still and regualrly see him out and about in Pudsey.
I asked him why he left Bradford and he said he went to see Nobby, asking him to give him a chance over Ben Harris so he could prove himself and Nobby declined. SM was assitant at the time and apparently told Akins if he was in charge he would have played him.
I'm no SM fan but you cannot blame him for this faux pas I'm afraid  |
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| Quote: New_Farnley_Bull "Sorry Red you are wrong there, Noble released Atkins, that came from Atkins himself. He lives in Leeds still and regualrly see him out and about in Pudsey.
I asked him why he left Bradford and he said he went to see Nobby, asking him to give him a chance over Ben Harris so he could prove himself and Nobby declined. SM was assitant at the time and apparently told Akins if he was in charge he would have played him.
I'm no SM fan but you cannot blame him for this faux pas I'm afraid ![]()
Atkins was loaned to Wakefield by Noble, and was still on loan when Noble left and McNamara took over, he was in charge when the transfer was made into a permanent move.
Only a clueless coach would have preferred Atkins to Harris, so in a way it is quite surprising that McNamara didn't veto the deal.
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| Quote: New_Farnley_Bull "Sorry Red you are wrong there, Noble released Atkins, that came from Atkins himself. He lives in Leeds still and regualrly see him out and about in Pudsey.
I asked him why he left Bradford and he said he went to see Nobby, asking him to give him a chance over Ben Harris so he could prove himself and Nobby declined. SM was assitant at the time and apparently told Akins if he was in charge he would have played him.
I'm no SM fan but you cannot blame him for this faux pas I'm afraid ![]()
That's not what Atkins agent was saying at the time or what Atkins himself told the lads in the 21's at the time with him.
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Shocking.
If only all could show as much effort as Raynor.
Truly showed us how far we are off of the top sides in SL.
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "here you have 2 games which sum up all that is wrong with the current Bulls setup.
Game 1
I see where this analysis comes from but it masks a Murdochian failure in oversight in the club's management. Sykes has been a poor player for 5 seasons. It's not that he's not trying, he's a terrible defender that has been signed and then re-signed twice more. Myler (a scrum half released by Widnes upon their relegation) targeted our right side and they scored 4 walk in tries in the first half and the game was over.
Similarly, the forwards tried their very best, made ground and forced errors in Wire's danger zone in the first half. We were held up over the line a number of times but were unable to fashion a backline move because the players are not good enough.
Ah van's 'metres' suggest he's working at his socks off but we signed him and numerous others out of desperation because our long term vision of squad building had utterly collapsed. Potter has cobbled together a squad from the wreckage of the Macca era and others cast offs and a against a very good side we were shown to be what we are.
I think the players are trying their best but significant numbers of them are not SL standard and ultimately the management of the club has to take responsibility. As has been mentioned on another thread, these are not one offs, but a clear and systemic disaster of recruitment and retention going back years.
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| Quote: "A wretched day was pretty much summed up when the Bulls won possession on their own 20-metre line, only for Ah Van to drop the ball straight from the scrum.'"
Is it me, or has this happened a lot this year? |
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| Quote: M@islebugs "...
I think the players are trying their best ...'"
Well, I don't. And we have even had some players in recent times going public that they don't all put all of it in, all of the time.
I have the coach in my campMick Potter demands self-reflection by Bradford Bulls players'"
The comment may relate to some college reflective surfaces course they are on but I don't thinks so, I am sure Potter is directly saying that the attitude of the team was unacceptable, and I agree.
We would almost always lose to Warrington right now given the respective squads.
But we should never lose as abjectly as that.
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| Quote: Ewwenorfolk "Shocking.
If only all could show as much effort as Raynor.
Truly showed us how far we are off of the top sides in SL.'"
And that's the crux of the matter really. Not making the eight just saves us from a stuffing in the first play off game. Having a top eight is a bit of joke really. |
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| Quote: New_Farnley_Bull "He lives in Leeds still'"
Not that it matters even a jot, but unless Leeds has upsticks and moved near Warrington then he doesn't live in Leeds no more. |
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Raynor may as well of been playing by himself with maybe a little help from Koppy, wouldnt of done much worse - AhVan is a waste of space and if he retains his spot that will be an absolute travesty !!!
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what a load of e
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| Quote: The Punisher "Tom Burgess is the biggest 18 year old i've ever seen, he's a beast!! it took 3-4 of our players every time to stop him. Hope you can keep hold of him and he doesn't have his head turned by Maximus Crowe.'"
Burgess is improving but he was blowing that much after a short stint that he could have blown up a children's bouncy castle. Terribly overweight and unfit. Interesting to see what he Is capable of next year after some proper conditioning. |
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Well, I don't. And we have even had some players in recent times going public that they don't all put all of it in, all of the time.
I have the coach in my camp
I think it's a stretch to state that the players require self reflection means that Mick Potter agrees with your view that the players 'clearly and deliberately don't bother'. Against Hudds we started well, gained confidence, made the right the decisions and lost all hesitancy as the crowd got behind them. Against Wire we started poorly, conceded a penalty, then a poor try followed by a knock on and another try in exactly the same position.
These are not issues of effort, they are issues of ability. Ah Van kicked the ball out on the full probably because he was a bit too wound up. It's a vicious cycle of lacking ability, making mistakes, losing confidence, hesitating and it is this that looks like they lack commitment when what they've lost is belief in what they're meant to be doing. We conceded 4 tries in almost exactly the same spot in the first half hour - how is this explained by '1-17 can't be d'? Guys rushing out of the line to close down an overlap is not 'not trying' - it's a misreading the situation by poor players. to say that they turn up to stick 2 fingers up at the fans suggests a level of deceit I just can't buy and I also think it lets others further up the food chain off the hook.
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