Indeed

He had an open fienld at Cas and still didn't manage to score.

So the kids under 16 are good, it's just when they start training proper with the academy sides, under the Bulls structure that things go downhill?
Is that what this implies?

one incident (and there have been probably been a handful of others too), but whats excuse for the poor service he's had the rest of the year?

Those kids will have still been training with their amateur clubs. Watch the Bulls "coaching staff" undo years of hard work by amateur coaches!!

What Connor fails to mention is that during that period of time around 95% of the coaching these lads recieved will have come from their club coaches not the Bulls.

As Beefy also observed.

Unfortunately, everything that is being said is tending to lead people to form a tentative, but disturbing, conclusion? You have to hope it's the wrong conclusion.

The above posts draw exactly the same conclusion as me.

I think we are all on the same wavelength with this one

Bring back Bernard then, he at least go the under 17's through 2002 undefeated. What a loss, twice, and not just his biceps.

Do you mind?

It is SIR Bernard!

Show some respect, man!

I know some of the Under 16's at Bulls, played alongside and against many of them. The right ones got the scholarships. Curtis Naughton (fullback) absolutly class if he can carry on the way he's going he will be in an England shirt by the age of 21. Goalkicker too. Alex Mellor (2nd row/LF) big strong unit but I aint seen too many games of hs to comment further although from good sources he's a class player too. Adam Brook (halfback) he could turn out to be a real find. Nathan Conroy (hooker) played with him from U8's - U13's, played against him a few week ago, great attitude and always looking to take line on, more in the Diskin mould than Strangers.

What happened to that Jack Cockerham, wasn't he supposed to be a potential big shot?

Hes in u18's i think

Continuity is the way forward

But when you arrive at a fork in the road, which way is continuity?

As long as you don't stand on the fork, it doesn't matter

If you make the mistake of trying and go down both forks at once, then you have achieved fork all...

Clearout is all I'll say without myself getting into trouble.

New captain is a priority imo.

Agree Ethan in that Lynch is no leader and for mine it has to be one of Heath, Disko, Kearney.

I'll also add that bringing in quality over quantity is key for next season with the new signings looking like improvements on the players they will end up replacing.

While I think a mass clearout will have a detrimental effect on the team (we really do need some stability) and overall focus for next year, we must be honest in that we are carrying a lot of dead wood at present and to progress forward we need get shut of it.

I'm so bloody upset at what we saw today, #### sake.

Apart from Heath, Kearney, Whitehead & Koppy there are no players I would be absolutely gutted to see leave atm. Raynor and Burgess are close too.

I too would like to see some stability, but thats hard when there's so much e in the squad. There are 2 things we lack desperately - leadership and quality. I hope we address this with the rest of the signings.

We have no shortage of hard workers (although todays performance contradicts that) and we are strong in certain areas (hooker, second row) But I still think we really lack quality in the outside backs, halves and at 13. Hopefull Donno and Addy can help at loose, but I would be excited with the signing of a creative 13.

What do you think of Rob Hawthorne ? he looks a good player to me but must be gutted the Bulls have signed two very average overseas centres for next season.

Or be realistic that once he's made his debut he'll probably feature 3 or 4 times (more if circumstance favours him and he grasps the opportunity)

Yes have to agree, lynchy is no captain material we need someone who is vocal !