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After Tuesday when the Odsal sports village gets the chop from the council they will be heading for oblivion playing at Valley parade in a sh**hole area with ever dwindling crowds. First division rugby will be the outcome if they are lucky.
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During the off season, loads of people kept bigging up Bradford's recruitment and tipping big things. I felt like I was the only one who thought they'd brought in a bunch of nobodies other than Orford, and let go some of their most influential players.
Where have all the "Bradford, Champions 2010" brigade gone?
I think McNamara is having the same problem that Agar had at Hull, that being having a team of players who are just going through the motions. Agar has cut out the deadwood and replaced them with leaders. McNamara seems to have brought in a lot of average players to replace other average players. There's no point in cutting out the deadwood if you're gonna replace it with similar players.
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Totally dumbass and invalid poll. Needs a "none of the above" option else it is not valid.
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| Quote: rupert bear "After Tuesday when the Odsal sports village gets the chop from the council they will be heading for oblivion playing at Valley parade in a sh**hole area with ever dwindling crowds. First division rugby will be the outcome if they are lucky.'"
If the OSV does not go ahead, the club faces oblivion. |
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Would it be so bad playing at Valley Parade though,i went there when the Bulls played Widnes about 1990 ish and it seemed an ideal RL venue and its improved a lot since then
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I'm sticking to the pre season prediction of 10th or 11th for Bradford, can't remember which I went for, rubbish coach and a team with no cohesion and what looked to be zero effort or interest at the weekend.
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You don't shake a tree and a baggy green cap falls out, this is Australia not England.
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| Quote: Damo-Leeds "If McNamara isn’t a good coach then how come he was assistant England coach? quote]
Thats not saying much is it??...I doubt whether Bennett could make a good side out of the material you've got. 
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| Quote: JONNYGIANT "Would it be so bad playing at Valley Parade though,i went there when the Bulls played Widnes about 1990 ish and it seemed an ideal RL venue and its improved a lot since then'"
Most away fans hated it. Home fans voted with their feet despite us having a champion side and our average crowds were lower at VP than they were at Odsal.
I don't like to think what crowds would be at VP to watch the current side.
However I do think we'll be there for next season. The club will have a devil of a job keeping crowds up once we're there. |
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Two games in and whats the panic ?
They are a side still in transition and people will have to accept this, it takes time to build a side up.
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| Quote: Ian P "Two games in and whats the panic ?
They are a side still in transition and people will have to accept this, it takes time to build a side up.'"
well if we can panic after 1 game, its only fair they can after 2  |
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| Quote: Ian P "Two games in and whats the panic ?
They are a side still in transition and people will have to accept this, it takes time to build a side up.'" Yeah, unfortunately you don't do that by replacing the likes of Vainikolo, Hape, Withers and Burgess with Sheriffe, Sykes, Platt and Danny Sculthorpe. I've never seen such an alarming decrease in a club's squad over four years. |
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| Quote: Damo-Leeds "If McNamara isn’t a good coach then how come he was assistant England coach?
He has a massive job on his hands at Bradford with the players he’s got playing for you. In the only Bulls players I can think of off the top of my head right now Are Lynch, Orford, Menzies and Langley.
Most of them are at the twilight end of they career with little desire other than to get a roof over their heads and food on their plates whilst at Bradford. This surely rubs off onto the others players as well.
You may finish above Salford but I wouldn’t be too confident on finishing above Crusaders and Quins especially. The sooner McNamara can get out of Bradford the better because he’s talking to a brick wall. At least elsewhere players will listen to him and be on that form that Bradford had at the end of last season.
Won’t happen this year however ![]()
We were talking great, not good.
So there's only Lynch, Orford, Menzies, Langley? The Rhinos wanted to keep hold of Scruton didn't they? Glenn Hall is quality, and Leeds were one of the other clubs interested in him. We also have Donaldson, Whitehead, Olbison and the Burgess twins pushing through aswell.
It's not all doom and gloom, Leeds have lost their last two aswell you know!
And, Get a job.
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| Quote: headhunter "Yeah, unfortunately you don't do that by replacing the likes of Vainikolo, Hape, Withers and Burgess with Sheriffe, Sykes, Platt and Danny Sculthorpe. I've never seen such an alarming decrease in a club's squad over four years.'"
I've never seen such an increase in a clubs youth development side of things in four years either. |
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| Quote: Ewwenorfolk "We were talking great, not good.
So there's only Lynch, Orford, Menzies, Langley? The Rhinos wanted to keep hold of Scruton didn't they? Glenn Hall is quality
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AFAIK Leeds had to choose between Scruton or Burgess on who to keep. They made the right call given how good burgess was playing at the time.
p.s. If Glenn Hall is quality, he better start showing it and fecking soon! |
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| Quote: dixie "AFAIK Leeds had to choose between Scruton or Burgess on who to keep. They made the right call given how good burgess was playing at the time.
p.s. If Glenn Hall is quality, he better start showing it and fecking soon!'"
He was alot better than Lynch on sunday, and no-one doubts Lynch's quality. |
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