Picked up on that too......sounds like something is around the corner....

Not seen any second rowers becoming available though.

Full time pro team with injuries but enough squad depth to cover vs part-time team struggling to get 17 fit players for the game.
One of those can rightly be called the underdogs, the other has no right to that title.
It's an idiotic cry for sympathy when none is deserved.
The fans will be loyal to the club, but how loyal are the club to the fans? The fans pay for their tickets expecting the club to fulfil a number of unspoken promises; that the club will ensure that the club will attempt to sign the best quality players and that those players will be properly coached into a winning side. Those promises are not being met and the club needs to address this.

I know a lot of people want us to sign a 7, the trouble is actually finding one of suitable quality. However, Siejka's performances last year should have alerted the club to the fact that a replacement would be needed for this year even if he hadn't asked for a release.
The tactics employed by Lowes seem to be consistently the same ie 5 drives up the middle followed by an ineffective kick and seem to bare no relationship to the team we're facing. Which makes me wonder, does Lowes actually bother scouting the next opposition? It would seem a fairly basic idea in terms of training, to know your opponents strengths and weaknesses and how best to set up your team to exploit them but that doesn't seem to be happening but if that's down to Lowes just not bothering or just simply not knowing how is debatable.

Also, with training the team don't seem to bother with defence as the defensive line never seems to move as a unit and far too often allows the attacking team to come to them rather than move forward to try and force the attackers on to their back foot. Then we get to the actual tackling - the technique (if that's what you want to call it) for Bradford is very poor. Virtually every tackle we have 2/3 guys tackling round the top of an attacker but no one going for the legs. It's very hard to run with someone's arms locked round your legs, but it's easier when your legs are free to keep pushing forward.

TLicon_biggrin.gifR = Ferres is being insulting towards the fans, Lowes is a poor coach.

Accuracy is hardly a strong point for The T&A guy!

It'll be another winger we're signing. We are DESPERATE for wingers. We don't have 13 yet.

Maybe we're bringing one out of retirement

Wouldn't mind Fairbank back

Gerald Cordle more likely.

I have just read the article in the T&A.Never in my time supporting the Bulls for 50 years have I read such ridiculous drivel from a Bulls employee.This man is hell bent on a destruct and obliterate the Bulls mission.I'm afraid to say that if we continue with Green and Ferres then the writing is on the wall as far as this club is concerned.If Green had an ounce of desire to take this club into SL then I suggest he grows some balls and sorts out the management of the club,both on the playing and admin side of the club.Finally who may I ask is the defence coach,because it seems to me he is obtaining money by false pretences.

Cordle & Kebbie

The answer to our prayers

More likely to be Jon Scales?

I feel like Ferres is becoming a bit of a scapegoat here. Yeah he says some dumb pr stuff but as far as I'm concerned that's not even his main job. Why isn't Robbie taking care of Ross' questions?

Other than that, I'm struggling to see why he's in the firing line more than others. Like our p!ss poor coach, for example.

Nobody said a peep about Ferres last season while we were winning more than we lost and reaching the MPG. But suddenly the team hits some poor form and it's Ferres who gets it in the neck? Why?
He has absolutely no input with regards to team coaching and selection, how we are currently performing has nothing to do with him whatsoever.

Yes it's not acceptable that we have no scrum half, and some of our signings were poor. But none of us know how hard the club had to work to scrape together [iany[/i kind of squad after we got relegated. All of that fine tuning of salaries, squeezing the last penny out of the salary cap and dealing with agents and players' demands must have been an absolute nightmare. I don't envy his job one bit and in all honesty I think he did a pretty decent job last year.

We also have no idea how hard he is working right now to find new signings, a 7 included. Nobody on here can think of any legitimate potential scrum halves for us to sign. Hell even some SL clubs are struggling, so I'm not really sure what some people are expecting him to do.
We played a significant part of last season with Addy at 7 and were not struggling for attacking ideas like we are now. Our lack of a scrum half is a problem, but it's not the only one or even the biggest one at the club right now.

Sorry Steve.

If it was anyone other than Ferres, I might think the same. But Ferres has proven himself to come out with nothing but drivel since joining the club, that I can't think it's anything other than him being a tit again.

Perfectly valid points I think. I literally haven't a clue what Robbie Paul actually does. Genuinely not a clue. It feels to me, though someone please correct me, that you need a Ferres role OR a Chief Exec type role, not both.

Sidlow was still in a pot on Sunday and I hope to God we don't rush him back. Kavanagh Was around a 2 month injury so should be back in the not too distant future. Think he 'll be a big plus for us.

I agree get a win Sunday and I would send the players on holiday for a week. Get away from the club, sport, get the negativity out of their systems and come back for the second part of the season ready to rip in.

Really hope we get a SH in that break. I know before Easter it was in the T&A that signings were imminent. Just hope they are signings that will lift the fans.

How unlucky are we though, 1.8 million immigrants yet not one can play scrum half

19 man squad for Dewsbury. Ross Oakes included.

Adrian Purtell, Steve Crossley, Joe Lumb, Adam O’Brien, Jay Pitts, Jonny Campbell, Alex Mellor, Lee Gaskell, James Clare, Kris Welham, Paul Clough, Ross Oakes, Dan Fleming, Mitch Clark, Danny Addy, Dale Ferguson, Ethan Ryan, Omari Caro, Tom Olbison.

I'd go

1. James Clare/Jonny Campbell (Think Clare is our best full-back, but also wouldn't mind seeing Campbell get a run there)
2. Ethan Ryan
3. Kris Welham
4. Ross Oakes
5. James Clare/Jonny Campbell
6. Adrian Purtell
7. Lee Gaskell
8. Paul Clough
9. Adam O'brien
10. Steve Crossley
11. Tom Olbison
12. Dale Ferguson
13. Danny Addy
14. Joe Lumb
15. Dan Fleming
16. Mitch Clark
17. Jay Pitts

I can't be the only one who saw a new name in the squad and immediately wondered if he was a 7. Alas, young Mr. Oakes is a centre...

Or is he......

Oscar Thomas must be really happy at the career choice he made, no worse than lots of others last week, but he gets dropped! On the positive side, no automatic return for Mathers, which I half expected.

Says in the e-mail that Thomas picked up a knock.

Email says OT has a knock - not sure how true that is - but it's concerning that the defence imploded spectacularly without Mathers. He may be a lot of things but he's no mug when it comes to organising the defence.

Hope they all have their big boy pants on this weekend.

I wonder if calling up this youngster is Jimmy's answer to our comical wing defense!

Well Caro and Campbell were atrocious in defence last week.

I put that down to Mathers wanting to avoid having to do any tackling himself.