But you can't have a player missing 7 or 8 weeks every season through injury.

we dont seem to have problem with deacon missing a similar amount and his hamstring seems to recur pretty regularly. morro's been unlucky with injuries, but hes just as likeyly go through next season injury free as he is it pick up another knock.

I do and we aren't on about Deacon are we.

His injuries have come about because he puts his body on the line. In terms of general fitness he's excellent. I wouldnt give any player his age a 3 year deal, but he deserves a contract extension of 1 or 2 years. Kicking him out would be tantamount to saying to the players "Dont give it your all and get injured because we'll get rid of you if you do"

I'd go year to year at his age since you don't want to block young players coming through, who might leave if they see their path blocked for 2 or 3 years, but his experience is one of the things likely to help them progress.

I have to agree, I think he is worth a 12 month extension and see how he goes. Despite suffering some injuries he has been consistently very good for us when on the pitch. He is a leader and has a lot of influence on the team and we'd struggle to find a player to replace what he brings to the club.

If he gets through to the end of the season without another big injury then I'm sure we'll be making him an offer.

His fitness is excellent, but he's still injury prone none the less. It doesn't matter how the injuries come about, he picks them up at an alarming rate, and he's also missed and alarming number of games per season over the last 2 seasons for us. Even when he has played for us, the results have been just the same as when he misses, so he doesn't make all that big of a difference. I'd be tempted to look elsewhere.

We need at least another season in transition to fully develop what looks looks like a great crop of young forwards.
Morrison can give us that 1 year in assisting them to come through by rotating with them off the bench.
Dont know how the young players see him, perhaps others could comment, but I expect his professionalism and dedication to be inspirational.
I dont see him as being particularly injury prone, its the way he commits himself and he's been unlucky, it happens.
Buying in a top alternative would mean tying them up to a 3 year contract and imo that is not where we want to be.

Can one of the people who seem to suggest that Macca is unsackable because he's building for the future and if he's sacked all the work will stop and use Leeds as the shinning light on this. Please explain how Leeds then managed to change their coach twice during the rebuilding phase with no detriment to the rebuilding. It didn't all grind to a halt.

Fair question - but Gary H has been there throughout. And for most young players, Steve Mac seems to be Bradford's USP.

But how do you know Powell wasn't for McGuire, Burrow and such.

What does USP stand for?

Universal Serial Puss.

I think.

Whats that got to do with Bulls and Steve Macca though? I don't understand what they meant when they said Steve is Bulls USP, Do you?

Unique selling point, fella.

Thanks mate. That other dude was obviously trying to be a smart alec.

Cos we know it was Dean Bell?

What I am more interested in finding out is why it took till half-way through a dismal campaign before this "building for the future" slant became the gospel at Odsal.

After all, there was a fans forum at the start of the season that was surely a better time to make this aim quite clear but I cannot remember reading a great deal about it then?

The cynics amongst us might well suggest that it is just a wee diversionary tactic used in order to try to take the heat off the first team performances.

The actual tag was on the website along with the season ticket renewal stuff at the end of last year. And the club was saying pretty much the same stuff as came up in the forum when I spoke to them for the RLW article last summer.

The cynics amongst us should get down to Specsavers.

But it wasn't being rammed down our throat all the time at the forum in January so wasn't changed for it to be used all the time now.

Which is pretty much the point I was making.

Back on Glenn is this the end for him as a Bulls player.

Any idea what he's crocked with this time? Didn't look well, you may be right on his playing career.

It looked like a break to me.

Well he didn't go to the hospital as he went down the tunnel about 5 minutes from the end.