I suppose I'm keeping my powder dry. Is the recruitment search just a cosmetic thing designed to give the illusion of being in the market for a quality coach? Was it Dunning all along? I have no idea but I think the outcome will go a long way into us all knowing what Nigel's vision is, and if any of us should have any optimism.

Well a lot depends on how we do for the rest of the season. If Dunning turns things around then I wouldn't have a problem with him getting the job. If it's more of the same and then he gets the job then that would be a problem.

Only coach I’ve heard linked is agar… not sure how I feel about that if true.apparently we are interested in a half called risking who has been turning out for Cornwall on loan from kr

maybe worth Risking.. lol
its a no to Agar from me though..

I'd sooner keep Dunning in post than appoint Agar I think.

I think the player is Adam Risling, a young scrum half.

If only to keep him off commentary duties, have Bulls considered John Kear?

I still say it doesn't matter who the coach is, the issue that will kill us is Odsal.

How long can we play on a pitch that isn't wide enough to meet the standards? And there is no chance it will be widened again because of the concrete slabs laid down on each side of the pitch.

That to me signals there is no long term ambition.

I don't understand the lack of ambition due to pitch size comment. We need stockcars to help pay for ground and return from dewsbury, slabs protect pitch to not damage it. I’m sure if they could make it bigger they would

Agar absolutely not. But it illustrates the type of coach we'll attract.

I like the job Peet's done at Wigan. The game is so stale and drowning in its own excuses and cliches that not having had a full time life involved in playing and coaching pro-RL should be seen as a major advantage.

If all the stars aligned and we put the team and coach together and got promotion I really don't think they'd have us in Super League with a Mickey Mouse pitch?

And if we did get into SL we would likely have more money and then could take on a bit more of the upkeep of Odsal and then maybe have the ability to extend the field in role as dominant partner?

Agar is just a continuation of Kear. Steady away. Not bad but not great either. Would rather someone like Danny Orr, a bit of freshness.

The pitch is an embarrassment but we're between a rock and hard place. Get rid of the stock cars and we have to find the money for stadium overheads ourselves. Go back to Dewsbury and you lose more supporters. Either option means oblivion.

Getting into SL seems like a million miles away at the moment. If it did happen we could potentially expand the pitch again but we'd need income to guarantee we didn't end up in th same situations as in the past. I'm not confident it's possible. What we really need is a new ground. Is it beyond a possibility that they could sell Odsal as an inert landfil site and use the proceeds for us to build a nice tidy Halliwell Jones type ground somewhere in Bradford?

Hopefully Mark Dunning will get the team playing better rugby. I think that may be happening slowly. If that happens people will return, maybe not in their droves but it will happen. The Kear gameplan on the tiny pitch was a huge turn off for supporters. Opposition teams have played expansively on that surface so it can be done.

Agree bullseye.

As to the question of super league, we all know it’s light years away on current standing however, if some miracle happened and we gained promotion I have no doubt we would play at odsal on the pitch as is.

We would be ridiculed every week for it but why would that bother our overlords? Instead each one of us on this forum would be made personally responsible for it from our friendly neighbours

Have the club drawn up a shortlist… held any interviews, I’ve not seen anything but I’ve not really searched either. I’m fully expecting Dunning to get it now, probably waiting for a run of a few wins to announce. Good luck to him if he does, but it isn’t going to encourage many back and the silence from the club is deafening.

What is the exact opposite of the term ‘feel good factor’?

Just a post to echo the general sentiment on here. The silence at the min is deafening and also alarming.

Im honestly getting to close to my absolute limit with the whole club at the minute. Its an absolute shambles from top to bottom. Absolute zero enjoyment at the minute with game day and there seems to be nothing going on off the field to give me any hope that thing are going to get better.

Having not missed a game for over 9 years (where crowds have been allowed) , im starting to feel like the only reason to attend games is just to 'keep the run going' rather than to go for any form of enjoyment.

Quote ="RagingBull"Just a post to echo the general sentiment on here. The silence at the min is deafening and also alarming. Im honestly getting to close to my absolute limit with the whole club at the minute. Its an absolute shambles from top to bottom. Absolute zero enjoyment at the minute with game day and there seems to be nothing going on off the field to give me any hope that thing are going to get better. Having not missed a game for over 9 years (where crowds have been allowed) , im starting to feel like the only reason to attend games is just to 'keep the run going' rather than to go for any form of enjoyment.'" https://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article ... e-chairman

Quote ="RagingBull"Just a post to echo the general sentiment on here. The silence at the min is deafening and also alarming. Im honestly getting to close to my absolute limit with the whole club at the minute. Its an absolute shambles from top to bottom. Absolute zero enjoyment at the minute with game day and there seems to be nothing going on off the field to give me any hope that thing are going to get better. Having not missed a game for over 9 years (where crowds have been allowed) , im starting to feel like the only reason to attend games is just to 'keep the run going' rather than to go for any form of enjoyment.'" https://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article ... e-chairman

Nobody is asking for a running commentary or expecting actual names on the shortlist.. but keeping your supporter base in the loop with a brief outline of where we are isn’t unreasonable is it?

At least we know there is still a process happening. Look forward to the announcement in September

The club lacks a charismatic chief exec or marketing manager who can exude a bit of positivity. Wood certainly isn't that person. As a result people switch off and drift away. The club can't survive on fans feeling obliged to go to games. It has to be enjoyable. People need to feel like they're going to be entertained and have fun. It's like we've gone back to the mid 80s in terms of the state of Odsal and the enthusiasm from the boardroom.

Lee Greenwood gets the sack at Dewsbury.

If anyone can be bothered looking back through this thread they will see people were calling for him to be our next head coach.

Just goes to show the level of RL knowledge on here these days i guess

Kear considered for Widnes job https://twitter.com/m_shaw1/status/1532 ... fwlH9M0NwQ

Kear considered for Widnes job https://twitter.com/m_shaw1/status/1532 ... fwlH9M0NwQ

Yeah Lee Greenwood was highly favoured before Kear arrived after he did a good job at Gloucester All Golds (wow, how soon we forget they even existed)

It shows that you can be a good young coach, but if you don't get the resources to take a club forward, then you're screwed. Since we are obviously skint, it doesn't matter who the next coach with the Bulls is, really. We could get Kristian Woolf or Tony Smith, but if they aren't given the tools, resources and authority to really deliver, then they're bound to come up short

<=#FF0000no need for it> Bullseye

I’ve heard it’s Tom Tsang the former Coventry coach now head of Huddersfield’s academy. I called it earlier this one.