As usual some challenging points. The crowd is an interesting one. Bradford City have maintained a crowd c10,000 (I think) despite almost dropping out of the football league. That is largely down to their season ticket offer I would reckon. Bulls will certainly drop next season, unless some major signings or a late season surge, but by how much I'm not sure. Probably below 10k except for the big games.

I would like to see more of Clubb, he showed down under what he can do but always strikes me as a lazy lump of lard. Purdham I think is about the most underrated forward a round. He does seem to struggle to maintain his fitness but absolutely cracking workhorse when fit.

witt would be a good call but crusaders have just re-signed him on a three year deal. think sammut already under contract too and apart from the odd flashy thing he does which looks fantastic when it comes off dont really think hes that good. If we retain l'estrange then no point looking at withers as we dont need 4 hookers on the books. Agree with clubb and randall but didnt clubb sign a new deal at quins last year?

Clubb led the SL for missed tackles last year with an amazing 92 in 27 appearances. So far this year he seems to have tightened up a bit but I still have reservations. Attacking wise he seems ok but hasn't a lot of pace, he's more of a bulldozing type of centre.

Of Eddie's examples I quite rated Witt but he's resigned for Crusaders. Sammut's a good impact sort of player but is difficult for others to play off because he's too instinctive. I think Luke George has potential, wasn't he once in our academy briefly?

Think clubb maybe falls into same category as LMS did whilst at quins. looks good in quins side but would look distinctly ordinary in a better side. see LMS this year as example. not saying we're a better side than quins at moment though, before anyone say anything

A fair bit of sense there, imo.
In terms of the rest of our season, the performance on Sunday, particularly in defence, is far more important than the fact that we lost, and as you say, it could be the turning point. Whether we'll make the eight or not I dunno, though I don't think we'll necessarily gain a better idea by looking down the fixture list and counting (or discounting) chickens. I guess there'll be a few surprises on the way. My gut feeling is that we might get another heroic failure, a bit like the last few games of last year, but I won't be shocked if we do sneak into the play-offs. Come on you Bulls!

Seems to me that the players can do one of three things:

1 - Look down the remaining fixtures list, and do what the doom-merchants on here are doing and write off the season.

2 - Analyse the remaining fixtures to the nth degree, and determine every conceivable permutation of results that might result in us making the play-offs, with all the caveats attaching to each.

3 - Don't worry overmuch about the fixtures list. Instead, take every match as it comes, and do their level best in each match to grind out a result, and let the final table placings look after themsleves.


I presume we would expect the players to adopt option 3, without any question of a doubt?

In that case, why the same should not apply to the fans right now escapes me.

It does doesnt it

No problems about looking into the future...as you say, that is human nature. I do it every day when I fantasise about that multi-million pound legacy that just might appear one day from some long-lost relative...

It is those who are clear they already KNOW the future, and indeed may be in, er, raptures about it, that perplex me the most.

No it was his older brother Marcus.