as a coach I like him, but I really do feel he has a dislike to us not because of his tipping but by comments he's made regarding us. Whether he'd come
I don't know I guess only he'd know

Yup, basically how I see it. Kear seems to be imune (to many on here) for the good work he has done in the past - and whilst we need to take this into account when planning there has to come a time when we move on. This "slump" is a regular occurance, and I can genuinely see us fininising closer to last place than 8th as things stand at the moment.

Proven coach with winning mentalitly, heaps of experience, encourages his sides to play entertaining stuff, apparently readily available, currently flying with his side after making huge strides recently + the other reasons you mention...... Yup, promoting Paul Broadbent with JD as assistant is a much more sensible suggestion.

picks his mates on a weekly basis who dont perform but a blind eye is turned.

we go for MILLWARD kear can stay upstairs l was coached by beans and lets just say l dont want him coaching my team who l've supported since l was 7 years old, old timer old ideas....!!!! where all forward work we dont use or backs like we should and what do we do sign another forward no sense.. we need another morrison second rower a scrum half and 2 backs we've got too many forwards... korki and king to start with fergi and moore coming on

we have hit a bit of a slump, will come out of it. to be honest i would be more worried if we were getting beat 60 -0 etc, like some of the so called top teams. we are not that far off the mark. some on here seem to think we are saints and should throw the ball about as such but are the first to whine when the ball hits the floor. the only answer they ever seem to have is sack the coach. that will solve every problem from no light bulbs in the toilet to the bar staff turning up late. i am sure when we pick up a couple of wins they will stop wetting themselves and go back to bagging the players.

IMO it's not time for JK to go, I don't agree with everything he's doing but I don't have all the facts and underlying circumstances at hand. if I did, I might come to the same conclusions as John Kear.

We aren't a million miles away from playing well, many of the required components of a decent team are present in the squad. Maybe JK is too close to the issue to see the problems and he might need to detatch himself from daily training, take a day off and come back with a fresh view on things.

He needs to sever his thinking from his loyalties and emotional atatchments and make some COLD decisions regarding team selection, recruitment and re- signing players.

The team dynamics have been altered radicaly since the pre season and the existing squad have had the first opportunity to seize their chance and fill certain roles in the team. It hasn't worked!

Sam is a hooker
Gleeson is out of his depth
Murphy and Blaymire BOTH need to be in the team
The Cooke gamble hasn't come off
JD needs a non playing/coaching role
Morton needs a break from SL
We need a genuine SL standard Scrum Half

Let's get back to picking players in their correct positions, start addressing the OBVIOUS deficiencies in the team and start playing with some structure but without straight jacketing individuals from intelligent off the cuff play.

Look at the disruption to the Wakey side this season that's been down to injury, suspension and players leaving. I'd say almost all of that has been outside Kear's control.

So it's shaping up to be a bit of a poor season but theres no need to chuck the baby out with the bathwater.

Get some players back from injury and things will start to look better.

Kear still seems to have a good backing from us but what do we want him to do with the seemingly out of favour JD? Drop him, change his position, change nothing hoping he comes good, drop captaincy or use him as an impact player etc?

you say get players back from injury we only had three out last night

Millard
Morrisson
Jeffries

Think thats quite a big loss to a squad like ours, don't you think, one Bradford fans already said Jefffries would have made a big difference last night.

if I were picking the team for the next game my line up would be:
Blaymire
Blanch
Murphy
Olstrum
George
Jeffries
Obst
King
Davey
Korkidas
Kirmond
Johnson
Ferguson

Leo Latu
Henderson
Gledhill
Moore

rested: JD, Morton
dropped: Gleeson, Cooke
Injured: Millard, Morrison

millard as up to now not been any good morrison yes and bj is either good or crap,to be fair we can add blaymire onto that list

Yeah but for which team?

why he no bloody good thats why