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"five percent off playing as we want to play"?!?!?!

Did he miss a "ninety-" off the front of that?

for once nice to hear some acceptance of the way we have been playing but for Deacon to say "we're only about five per cent off playing as we want to play" I'm not too sure about that



I guess you could also say that Hood has come out and given him the vote of confidence in saying what he has, but personally I think he's gone over the top calling him special, next he'll be singing to him in the directors box

Suppose that puts to bed the 'Macca has lost the dressing room' line that was spouted by a few on here.

The players and the coaching staff need to back up their comments with improved performances now though. Hopefully the France trip will give the players the little bit of a boost they need right now. Far enough away from the empty head boo boys who at the moment are only heaping more pressure on the side.

And blah blah blah blah blah

I'm sick to the back teeth of the excuses. The Bulls at the moment are like that kid who never does his homework and comes up with more and more elaborate reasons why. In the end you just don't care what they're going to say because you know that there's no change coming.

If you really want to appologise guys hows about you do it on the pitch? Hows about you pull your collective heads out of your a$$es and actually start playing like a team instead of 13 guys who've only met each other that morning?

Or here's a better one, defer 50% of your wages until you actually start winning? As you don't seem to respond to a kick in the backside that 44-10 was maybe you'll respond to a kick in the wallet?

They are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I don't think it has. It's merely a press release, and let's be honest - they wouldn't say in the press that he'd lost the dressing room. I showed the release around the office this morning, and all but one here agreed that the press release signalled poor management from the coaching staff.



Those 'boo boys' seemed to be 25% of the crowd, which is a hell of a lot. They're also entitled to air their beliefs. Whilst I didn't boo, performances in recent weeks from a side that on paper are very good, definitely warranted it.

In Deacon's case 5% of nothing is nothing. He is no doubt thinking only MacN would carry on picking him.
Genuinely though, we do need some decent GB coaches to succeed.

Well I'm sick of hearing the same old empty blurb "we know what we did wrong" "we're only 5% from where we want to be" it's all rubbish because none of it is ever backed up on the pitch.

They ought to stfu and actually get on with trying to improve their performances instead of giving soundbites out to the media.

There was nothing like 25% of the crowed booing where I was, more like 5% if that.

Perhaps this statement of unanimous support from the players was contingent on McNamara first burying the hatchet with Halley and recalling him? Just a thought.

But on the other hand would they state the team is fully behind him if that wasn't the case? Surely no such statement would be given either way if that was the case.



I would guess the actual people booing is far less than 25%.. but I haven't done any sort of research into this! There is no 'law' against booing but it's not something I can ever imagine doing to the side I support. I've gone home bitterly disappointed over the last few weeks but what are the people hurling abuse at the team/coach expecting to achieve?

Really?

Sending the captain out with a prepared statement says anything but.

Making themselves feel better. Regardless of the consequences.

Yeh I expect McNamara wrote it for him the night before.

Sledger nails it...

When I said 25%, I meant in the area that I was stood. I over-exagerated that point, and didn't mean the whole ground

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When Macca walked past at half time, he was certainly on the end of a verbal backlash by the fans, far worse than I've seen before.

If this is an official apology, why no reference to it on the website or indeed in the quotes from Deacon and Hood? Odd.

Not one person near us was booing.

But then we were stood with the Hull fans...

I suggest its the slant being put on it in the headline - makes for good press, after all?

No smoke without fire?



Well I for one think the club should quit issuing these lame statements and have a media blackout until our first win. Do your talking on the field Deacon.

If anything I'd like the club to be making more Bullish noises right now - if we're going down lets go down fighting.

IMO one win is all that is needed to turn things around. confidence will return and we can start to move on but until then all our ships must sail in the same direction. One of the players is going to have to stand up - Macca needs a hero (Nero?) to save us and put his hand up for the team. You have to look at the pivot players Deacon and Newton to bring in this change, if they are firing on all cylinders the big units should start to make inroads and we'll the performance we need.

Good to see Halley back lets hope he continues his try scoring exploits

I can't believe people are have a go over this.

Whilst I've no doubt there's an element of it being a fabricated statement, at least they're trying to communicate to the fans and let us know some of the why's and where fors, something we have all asked for!

As Adey said, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I get the feeling we're not that far away and while 5% doesn't sound a lot, it's a key 5% none the less. What percentage of missed tackles are there? 10 / 200? What's that as a percentage.......erm.....5, funnily enough.

Pass completion......similar?

Once things click, confidence starts to grow, I think we'll become a difficult side to beat, I jyst hope it's soon!!

I thought our stuttering attack for all the dropped balls and misdirected passes looked like creating more than it did versus HKR or Hudders.

Unfortunately the defence and discipline wasn't as good.

The players and coach obviously know this isn't good enough. They've admitted it in most of the press releases recently.

Do we really need to get so wound up over this stuff?

Funnily enough, there wasn't any booing, at all, in the stand as far as I could hear.

It is sad what an apoplectic reaction is produced by [ianything[/i that comes out of the Bulls camp. Perhaps before the next home game the players and coaching staff should all be tied to a trellis on the pitch and publicly flogged for half an hour, so that the most implacable critics can have the blood they apparently seek.

That'd teach 'em!