If players can't do the fundamentals i.e. hold on to the ball, complete sets, then surely this is coaching. If not the only implication can be that the players are not trying or in some cases not good enough for professional RL. However, the players are better than what they've been showing. This to me means they have given up and aren't focused.

Havn't seen much of the Bulls this season, wasn,t expecting such a bad performance in defence from your team made even worse with the french man with the whistle. Looks as though you will be having a transitional season next year which Mick Potter is good at.

Trouble is mate, we've been having a "transitional" season every year for a while now...

I seem to recall quite a few people stating on here that Kearney was a fullback, and had been for the majority of his NRL playing career.

He's not a natural 6, but he has the pace and agility to make a much better go of it than sykes ever could.

I would be reasonably happy for Kearney to fill the stand off position until Southernwood is ready for the first team.

I'm also still holding onto a faint slither of hope that we're after Greenshields to take over at fullback.

Fair points. I'm not gonna argue with it.

I understand with have financial concerns, but still feel we have under performed and made poor signings, when better players of i can only guess equal value were available.

I wonder if the Bulls had any money to go for a more experienced coach when Nobby left.

Underperformed? For sure. Irrefutable argument. Indeed, serious understatement.

Poor signings? The fact that we are yet again restructuring with yet again a high player turnover can only suggest some poor decisions - for whatever reasons.

Money for more experienced coach? The big question, that, and one of the main reasons why I have been going on (and on and on...) about the financial realities.

Things were indeed extremely tight around then (I'm not just guessing there either) , and there seemed to be a lot of destabilising whispers going round - some maybe from much closer to home than should have been - that would surely have put off potential applicants. Also, though, do you remember what Noby said about Macca at his last forum? When Macca had been approached by Hull? I wrote it down someplace, but the gist was that Noby had told Macca it would be very much in his interest to stick with Bradford. At that point I am sure Nobby knew he would be going, so it very much came across to me at the time that he was annointing his chosen (or at least expected) successor. People who say it all went wrong post-Nobby might want to reflect on that? So could we have secured the services of a more experienced coach? I always suspected we would have badly struggled. Some single-agenda know-alls stated of course we could. The thing is, we will now never know.