I don't know what to say really. The first half I really think we played pretty well, bombed a few chances. Second half - wtf? Even the most basic of things seemed beyond the team - catching, passing, tackling. Whatever Mac is saying at half time seems to do the job....


....for the opposition.
It's still pretty painful to watch, but at least thats the playoffs gone so one less to endure.

Three more points:
1. Ian Smith - what was he on today? Some more eccentric decisions and I'd like to see that (cynical?) late hit on Deacs again.
2. £20? £20? What's that all about? It's a good job it didn't rain.
and
3. FOOORRRRRRRRRWWWWWWWWAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDD.

Embarrassing.

I'm not sure which sites are the best so I've copied here a posting which I made on the Bulls Forum:
At what point are we, the fans, going to say "enough" and really start to make our feelings known? I have followed Bradford since the 1950s and have seen bad times and good times. I understand the financial imperatives at play, I understand the problems with injuries, I understand that the players are not performing at their best BUT, I have spent a lifetime as a senior manager and I can recognise without any shadow of doubt when the problem in an organisation is management. I'm sure that Steve McNamara is a superb operational second-in-command but the skills needed to be a good operational coach are completely different from the analytical, strategic skills needed to be a Head Coach, motivator and tactician. Sadly Mr M does not have these skills. I understand that Peter Hood is a businessman and has worked hard to get the club into good financial shape BUT there is no point having money in the bank if we have no fans left, no sponsors left and face leaving Super League within a few years. Season ticket sales for 2010 will be dire. This is money up-front which can be invested for the season. Without it we'll be playing catch-up all next season.
We must do something now to get the club back on to a firm footing. We need a new coach with good analytical and tactical skills who can watch each game unfold, assess the opposition on the day, have a running game plan which can be transmitted and actioned swiftly as the game unfolds. Half-time talks should see a coach with a clear plan to tackle the inadequacies exposed in the first half, taking account of the oppostion on the day, the weather conditions, the referee's particular predilections that day, the lighting, the wind direction etc etc. Does anyone on the terraces really think on present showing that our coach has the ability to do this? Sadly he clearly has not. If he did then we would see the result after half-time as tactics were changed to bring us back into the game by exposing weaknesses in the other side and closing loopholes in our own.
I shall miss the Wigan game (first one missed for a long time) due to other commitments but will be at every other home game. Will the rest of the fan base do something - anything - to stop this rot? A sit-down protest? An organised delegation? A petition? I don't know what is the best way forward but I do know that we must do something.

Your only saying that because they beat you.





Seriously though, it seems as though Bradford need a good clearout from top to bottom, but this won't bring instant success. It will take time, and Bradford fans should be thankful that the franchise allows this.

Would that be the same Ian Smith who tried everything he could to keep you in the game only for you to keep messing it up?

No, I don't think so. The one I saw gave everything the KR fans told him to, and gave penalties all the time for knock ons.

Did you see a different one?

FFOOOORRWWWAAARRRD.

I saw the one that let numerous head high tackles go unpunished especially from Nick Scrotum

Next time you go to watch a game try looking towards the green stuff its called grass and the players will be stood on it.
If you had looked at the green stuff you would have seen that he manufactured 4 sets back to back in our half/on our line and you still couldn't score and dont even start on the 2 'playon' knock on's in the second hafl!!

No, that one was punished.

I think perhaps the most worrying thing today was whilst watching our collapse.. I didn't really care. I was expecting to be let down today and I got pretty much what I expected from the players today.

To be honest I've lost interest in this season, I think it is only my love of the club that forces me to go and suffer. I wonder if we'll get some good new early this week to lift a bit of gloom..

And you should try watching with both eyes.

I just find it funny that we beat you even when were against 14 men




Moan all you want you are still talking utter balls


Ta ta

Spot on IMO.

I'll be there on Sunday, but the way we're all watching our club being destroyed is tempting me to spend the week creating a huge banner

Who is moaning?



Are you always so bitter in victory? What are you like when you lose?

See you.

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One wrong letter in that methinks.

Simply no longer possible. It's become indefendable.

I agree unfortunately.

Well, that's alright then Steve

Jeez!

Must say I've been thinking along the same lines. I never expected a win today and must say I can't see where the next win is coming from.

The head coach's time is up IMO.

Yes. As it has in many games, all season long. But despite already having missed the playoffs before this game kicked off (and everybody knew it) we did not use the game as the start of a spell to drop some of the players who have been responsible week in, week out, and give some decent gametime to some deserving young lads, on a "we've now got nothing to lose basis". If He had dropped even 3 or 4 and played some young lads and lost, then I might not have been as unhappy with the scoreline.


Again, this is almost a personality trait now, it happens so often. It seems to me that too often experienced players look like they wouldn't recognise a decent attacking move if it slapped them in the face.


Why? What difference does it make? Why not drop 100% of those you can who deserve it, and don't play them again the rest of the season?


No Steve. There weren't. Not this game.



Newsflash Steve. We just officially drowned.

You are as below.

Next time you go to a game try watching it instead of just shouting forward.

Also the fans who sang "BYE BYE BYE BYE" When Deacon went off injured are a disgrace

Thats a beauty.

Does anybody believe a word of it anymore?