Quote ="ex Bull Dog"I think last years offseason was a major contributor to this seasons no show. Whether you include the conditioning they do, the set piece and analysis, we looked to suffer from the lack of warm weather training and friendlies. There was that week when it snowed heavily and they struggled to get much decent training done. Warm weather training allows more work to get done in a set period of time, its been said many times before. And then we've got to get meaningful friendlies to put the training into practice.
You can plan and train all you want but you need to bring the contact element in so the players can understand what works and what needs to be tweaked before competition starts properly
I also appreciate its not easy to get the overseas players back but they should be back and training at the same time. Don't think we'll have too many on international duty'"
If this seasons anything to go by then the solution is to play 20 preseason friendlies, all of them in Spain!!!! Come on..
We only got going when the pressure and expectation was off the players. At the start of the season we were speaking about having a crack at the top three and it continued when every player in the squad did the "we can make the playoffs" interview.
What is needed is less talk and more action. God, we virtually do everyone's team talk for them by printing rubbish in the T&A.
The team need to get fit quick. ALL the squad need to be in on Nov 1st and we need to have probably 3 friendlies or warm ups against decent teams ( preferably SL) which could be behind closed doors!
we need to hit the ground running and build next year. Other teams, like Leeds and Saints have got ageing squads and i believe that our younger squad can flourish. But the whole organisation needs to be more honest in its dealings with the public and stop traeting us like idiots. it needs to get out in to BRADFORD and give people a reason to get to matches. On average there has been space for 15000 extra people in Odsal, lets get them in, either cheap or free, to crate a buzz.. tose of us who are die hard fans wont mind paying if there is a resultant increase in interest and/or finances.
