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Sad to say that defeat now does not even hurt me any more. It is a kind of expectation these days I am afraid. As much as I always want to see Bradford win, I am afraid that, under the current "coach", we just cannot expect any wins anymore.

Bradford losses used to ruin my weekend but now they just seem to be taken with a pinch of salt.

How can this be defended?

Disapointing as it may be, Bradford need rid of Macca.

It just hasn't worked and needs sorting now before we miss out on playoffs!!!

Well I've argued on his side but to lose to a team that bad really I can't stick up for him any more.

Starting a new thread for this? It can't.

Welcome to Hull FC 2008 and a lot of 2007 thanks to Peter Sharp!

When i realised we'd signed no one of any class in the backs and still had Mcnarama in charge this season i knew chances are it would be a poor one.

Heard same s**t excuses for past season and a half at least.

Scruton most feel happy about the move he's made.

I'm joining the crusade. It's time for McNamara to go. The competition has changed and the biffing forwards tactic is dead (see Noble and Lowes for further details).

It's a fast play of the ball, creativity with ball in hand and mobility that's winning through. With the paucity of talent in the backs we are never going to compete. This was the one area we needed to address in the off season...McNamara failed to do that. McNamara out.

I'm afraid that it's a downhill curve. At the moment we will struggle to make the eight. Are the board happy with that?

The most worrying aspect is that even if he was to go, whoever comes in has a hell of a job to do because it's obvious the backline talent just isn't there.

The golden era is a distant memory. We have to get used to the fact that we are no longer 'big four'. We're mid-table mediocrity. It's time to act. McNamara out.

Who in?

Exactly. All these people calling for Macnamara's head don't seem to have any ideas about who could replace him.
So come on, lets hear them. Im not aware of a queue of quality coaches beating a path to the door.

When a coach loses the dressing room, anyone who comes in will make a difference as the players get revitalised.......

There's nothing like long term thinking.



BTW, where did you get 'losing the dressing room' from? Ceefax?

So then......

mat
Beechwood Bull
Andrea
Bulldozer II
FA (despite your exile you will still be reading this)
af

etc etc.

Fill yer boots. He is doing pretty good isn't he?

"Ten games".

By a coach who has widely been derided at several points in his coaching career. Jus' sayin'...

Bring back Terry Holmes, he'll turn it around

Just a hunch TBH, but a likely scenario. It appears that Newton does not want to try, Halley is farmed off elsewhere whilst a lesser player(s) plays, Jeffries will have his nose out of joint after the great handling of the Bird case.

TBF, I get more right about McNamara's failings than I get wrong don't I?

Within the confides of your imagination, absolutely.

Is that it? Nothing positive to say about the coach?

After all, if he is to make ten games then he will need all the support he can get from his band of followers. This thread presents a great opportunity for some positivity to come out.

Results of the last year since my original campaign against him suggest otherwise do they not?

TBH Andrew, whilst your continued defence of your great mate Steven is admirable, I doubt too many people share your confidence. As much as you may wish to argue otherwise, I suspect that most people are seeing that we are becoming a laughing stock.

It interests me that you suggest that it is in my imagination when you consider that there are plenty on here today STILL questioning his tactical nous. Despite strong words in the media from McNamara, he is either doing nothing to resolve the problems, or he is incapable of actually doing so. I reckon it is the latter TBH.

You see Eddie, your problem is that ten games for you is an unbearable length of time to go without a certain level of onfield success. You were on here sniping twenty minutes into the Hull KR game! This is a club that has been going in one form or another since 1863, longer than the game itself. It's been the Treble Champs and it's been rock bottom of the professional league. It currently is in the doldrums relative to the most successful ten years in its history, but there is a clear strategy for improving matters - youth development and the OSV. Both will take time, and do little to satisfy yourself and those likeminded in the interim. But that doesn't stop them from being the way to go.

Ten games?

Three seasons is a bit more accurate. Three seasons of decline on the playing field. Three seasons of questionable signings and tactics. Three seasons of dwindling crowds, quality, entertainment and, now, expectation levels.

Three seasons of proving that our youth development is the key by letting one of our best young players go out on loan after not giving him a fair crack of the whip and watching him get off to a great start whilst we blunder on from one poor performance after another.

The OSV saga has now been running longer than Coronation Street and, TBH, I am unsure what that has to do with the failings of the coach?

Still, two posts made on here and even YOU have not said anything positive about the coach directly. That kinda says it all.

I'm sure there would be no shortage of contenders. After all it ought to be one of the most sought-after jobs in Super League.

In your head. In reality 2007 saw us have a good pop at top spot. Dwindling crowds? They went down after we won the Treble, blame the Bradford sporting public for that one.


More fantasy. Dave Halley has had plenty of stick on here for his performances. Great that he's doing well at Wakey, that's what he was sent there for, change of scenery to help him kick on.


No? But you just mentioned dwindling crowds a couple of paragraphs back. And dwindling crowds means dwindling income.


I think you said it all, over four or five threads I had to merge.

I think Dave Woods ex Cas and Gateshead may be an option, although I'm not sure about the circumstances in which he was sacked from Gateshead.

That was one of the worst games I've seen in years, we were dire and Huddersfield didn't exactly set the world alight.

After waking up with a hangover I realise I went over the top with that comment. Huddersfield are a lot better than I made out but it was a game that we should have won.

Same old same old it has to end.