Indeed.

They aren't here now though are they? When they were those two, and Stanley Gene and Marcus St. Hilaire were producing performances streets ahead of plenty of the crock of sh*te turning out this year.


Indeed, the much vaunted "difference" as we chased his signature, the man to give that spark to lead to trophies. Good move that, obviously it's not the current regimes responsibility in any way.


More great use of money there eh? Replace 5 with 7 and the performance goes downhill.


Would this be the same sort of transfer fee banked for Vainikolo? I know some people do get paid for bending over and letting someone do as they want.

If you can't accept that a lot of McNamara's recruitment has been p*ss-poor then there isn't much point discussing it. Apparently he has had the full cap at his disposal, so he's messed up badly with this "quantity" approach, if he hasn't had the full cap then the chairman has wilfully misled the support. I know you're amongst the "see no evil hear no evil" brigade when it comes to the club, but even you've got to admit that one of those scenarios is the truth, and whichever one it is, it is unacceptable.

There's spending to the salary cap and then there's spending [ito [/ithe salary cap.

maccas been spending to salary cap but 250k of that was tied up in harris plus at least 100k in hape who just wasnt interested this year. Solomona was brought in by macca and hasnt lived upto expectations agreed, but everyone was pretty pleased when we signed him.

Only one of this years signings who hasnt lived upto expectations is nero. godwin has been a bit quiet and sykes's defense has been poor but semi,jeffries finnigan have all been amongst our better signings. It's been some of our players from previous seasons who've had a quiet/poor season this year which has been a bigger problem ( and thats when they manage to get on pitch between injuries).

There's also wilfully misleading fans when the support base is low on confidence, not 100% convinced by those in charge of things and numbers are falling off worryingly, on the back of a distinct lack of entertainment.

I'd suggest that isn't a very good idea.

Yeah, and there's brutal honesty that might be misguided too. Some sort of middle ground has to be found and it is difficult to identify just what it is.

The club is in the schtum and the lack of 'rally round the club' sentiment on here is what I consider most worrying. Not much that can be done about that though.

When the message that is coming out is "everythings fine, we're doing well financially and if it wasn't for refs and injuries we'd be doing much better on the pitch" what do you expect people to rally around?

Because, read all that's come from the club over the season and that's exactly the message that is given out.

From my experience honesty is always the best policy when you are communicating with your support, if you're not honest at the time you risk losing their support and sympathy, which then gets worse further down the line when the full picture does become clear, and people realise they had things hidden from them at the time.

That's hit the nail on the head.

Can't agree. If it was simple as that, there wouldn't be a the saying "Don't wash your dirty linen in public". Like I said, you've got to plot a course between the two extremes.

As to what there is to rally around, how about the Bradford club, an institution that has been in existence in one form or another for one hundred and forty-five years. There's no obligation but professing a great desire to see the Bulls do well and stating that you intend to withdraw your support if results do not improve sharpish seems a bit contradictory.

I agree while the club keep trotting out the same things it's impossible to have an sympathy with the way things are going.

Any?

Yes if things are bad I'd be rather kept in the dark than led to believe everything in the garden is rosy.