Yes, a player with no experience of coaching will do a much better job. Do you think Menzies would want to coach the team for the rest of the season, because I don't.


I'm not happy that we've lost another one, but even if McNamara is making the wrong decisions, he is still a coach (albeit a poor one) whereas Menzies is not.

Just because he is called a coach don't make it so.

I would guess Menzies has forgotten more about rugby league tactics than McNamara will ever know. The season is totally fooked now so why not? I'd guess with him in temporary charge there would be renewed optimisim amongst the crowd and playing staff which might even propel is to a decent play off place. Worth a gamble? I'd say so!

It doesn't change the fact that Menzies probably doesn't want the pressure of coaching a team when he's never had any experience of coaching.

Even the greatest coach in the world can do nothing about some of the amateurish mistakes we made today.

Sykes with his intercepted passes
L'Estrange taking the kick off over the dead ball line.
The loose passes that flew straight into touch

Not good enough, and it's the players to blame more than the coaching most of the time.

Ultimately it's very difficult to win games without your leader/playmaker on the pitch as evidenced by Saints last night and Leeds at the beginning of the year. Any team that has Paul Sykes leading them around the pitch will struggle no matter who the manager is.

Taxi? He should have hung his head in shame and climbed aboard the Hull Coach! This guy truely is clueless when it comes to Coaching. Team morale must be absolutly shot......Time to go Stevie boy...

Next home game crowd will be another record, records coming thick and fast under this coach..First Team to lose to Crusaders, first team to lose twice to Crusaders, worse capitulation after going into the lead, most losses on the bounce and no doubt worse home record for god knows how many years!

The result of that game clearly hinged on three totally ridiculous substitutions that were not needed. The team at that point were on fire with the crowd behind them. You just know we were fooked when Worrincy came on for Whitehead!

Yet last week he was quite happy to leave Addy on the bench! This week, desperate to get Worrincy back on just because he is sat on the bench. Wonder if he just doesn't like his company? Here's a thought, leave him out of the squad all together then it's a decision he no longer has to make!

Never mind a taxi give him a raft!!!!!

Preparation for today inc players building rafts.

Should be learning how to pass, catch, tackle and run onto a ball (RL basics)

Addy turns the game around and Macca takes him off????????

I have supported Macca but no more, let Medley take over until end of the season know the younger player better than anyone and MACCA PLEASE GO NOW!!!!

It's not the decline of Bradford under MacNamara that worries me....it's the fact that he's the England coach!!

I've yet to meet a Bradford fan who would defend MacNamara, and I know many disillusioned Bulls fans

Stick around, there is a couple on here who do that every week.

I know 4,000 fans who would contribute to his fare with a good tip for the driver

It's amazing that three years after those disastrous changes in the infamous Wigan play-off game McNamara is still making the same mistakes when it comes to substitutions.

Thankfully there are only 7 or 8 games left of it.

Yep, he's either destroying all team momentum with them, or just not bothering to make them at all. Completely inept.

So theirs 8 mins to go your 6 points behind so what do you do. Thats right you take off the player who's looked most likely to create something.

He could have always used Plan "A", leave him on the bench for 80 mins!...

Whitehead was injured when he took him off apparently. But the others - no excuse. Just plain dumb.

Macca's take on the game;

Steve McNamara was pleased with the level of his side's second-half performance and was adamant it merited more.

"I thought our second-half performance probably deserved enough for us to go and win the game," he said.

"I felt we were going to go on and do that; we had the momentum there.

"It was special, freakish, whatever you want to call it, but Jordan Tansey can do that and it has cost us.

"But I think we played pretty well in the second half and showed the way to go for us.

"We need to continue that for 80 minutes next week."


What wisdom!.....

So he put him back on again 4 mins later?

Hmmm.

Pleased with the second half?

Played pretty well in the second half ?


That will not win games, not that it matters to him, he's already concentrating on his other job, if that is possible.






Holy crap Batman!

Tansey finds it easier to do when Bulls tacklers get in each others way.

Do you really think that Steve McNamara is going to be coaching England when there is a "coaching consultant" with him in Brian Smith.

Smells of last year when Tony Smith was appointed as head of coaching and rugby and Jimmy was made 1st team coach.

I would not be surprised to see a top Australian coach in charge of England for the World Cup in 2013, doesn't Wayne Bennett's contract with St George finish in 2012? The fact that one of Bennett's staff is now a member of the England set up is not a coincidence.

We will still not beat Australia though and I really fear for us in the 4 Nations this year.

Why? We were never going to win the 4 Nations to begin with. Doesn't matter who the coach is, England does not have the quality or depth of player resource that Australia has and it's about time people got this into their heads.

IMO what got McNamara the England job is players such as Donaldson, Whitehead and Burgess and the way these young lads have come on at Bradford while McNamara has been in charge (regardless of how much input into that he's actually had) and the fact the RFL can see that unless we increase the quality and numbers of players coming through the ranks we will never be able to compete on the world stage.

Theres quite a few that post on here, but slowly but surely most are realising that Macca is just not upto the task and never has been.