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!

There's a snippet in Private Eye from some Anglo Saxon chronicle recording that in some coinage scandal around 1157 (?) all mint men (i.e. coinage manufacturers) were required to report to Winchester, where they were parted from their right hand, and their testicles. Seems a tad harsh, but perhaps the idea for an effective performance incentive?

We already have enough trouble catching the ball with two hands..

Hood is either a poor liar (in which case Macbanana should watch his back) or he is totally delusional (in which case God help us). Unfortunately, I think it's the latter

A job for Leon Pryce?

Or even before that - that's what he was writing with his crayons during the WC.

Of course not, silly me, it was all Deacon's own work - well he got some tips from Sam Burgess on what to write after remembering the good work he did with the season ticket letter last year.

What a load of tripe. John Ledger spoke to Paul Deacon personally and to Peter Hood. It had nothing to do with the club. I get the press releases and, I have it on good authourity, so does BullsEye. So why don't you ask him whether he got it coz I certainly didn't.

Hardly...was nearer 100%!





...when that pillock in the orange gave that turnover to Hull after our alleged knock on right in front of us, when we all saw it should have been a scrum to Bulls...

Still, I think its slightly better to hear than nothing at all from the club.

Actions will always speak louder than words, especially when people are already getting wary about the constant stream of words from the players that they fail to back up on the pitch.

Clubs shouldn't be in the position where players need to wheel out "we are all behind the coach/manager" type comments, we should all be able to see that evidenced out on the pitch, when players do come out with such a statement it invariably asks more questions than it answers.

That said, during the week, what else are the players expected to do? Play a game in everyone's back garden to show that they can do it?

As it's been earlier posted, damned if you do, and damned if you don't. At least the players know they're not playing to their potential, and are willing to openly come out and back the coach?

Well, that's something to hang on to.........I guess

[i"I'd like to reassure all the fans that the players are 100 per cent behind Steve," said Deacon. "We all feel he and his coaching staff are doing a great job and we have no doubts, none at all, that Steve is the man to turn this around."[/i

Well, that's the most likely sounding death knell that I've [iever [/iread

You've posted what I've been thinking.

. . . great minds fella, great minds

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/4213065.Burgess__Players_to_blame_so_lay_off_Macca/Burgess, along similar lines.[/url

“There’s also a lot of stuff Steve does that people just don’t see."

Well at least Sam and maybe Deacs are impressed by Maccas colouring-in.

"He’s the smartest bloke I’ve come across in rugby league and knows what he’s talking about"

Does Sam hang out with Terry Newton a lot?

think deacs is not 2 far off the mark with the 5% bit but id say 2%

It's worth noting that the Hull players were making similar statements about Peter Sharp during our appalling run of form last season.

Not sure how significant this is. The players will either come out in support whether they mean it or not, or remain silent.

Only in rare occasions will a player publicly criticise the coach. I remember Jamie Thackray when at Leeds being quoted in the YEP saying something to the effect that he knew better than the coach who was trying to change his ball-carrying technique... Needless to say he didn't last long at Leeds.