Indeed. I'd much rather be seen by all the world as a fan than a stinking vulture.

Answer - it would appear so.

Quite shocked to see and watch that performance from the bulls last night. Mick Potter has a big challenge next season, first priority must be some decent half backs, there didn't seem to be anybody organising the team.

Potter's taken on the job and he's nobody's fool.

Whatever he sees for next season in players, funding, juniors (etc) must be enough to have convinced him to sign up.

He would not have done so otherwise.

Is there anything else we already knew that you wanted to share with us?

And yes, I know your comment was given in good faith - sadly, we started the season with one (excellent) half back - who ran the team early doors and as a result we rose to 4th. Then he got injured, and we were well and truly stuffed. That it coincided with our head coach (good, crap or whatever) losing interest and wanting out for his new job hardly helped.

Which of the three options do you go for ?



The Orford eggs in one basket scenario was always one that could have gone wrong, but i backed it.



I don't think many realised just how much Kearney wasn't a natural stand off and definitely a natural fullback, a position not many thought we needed more cover in.

I always thought that Macca was probably a very good "technical" coach, and a relatively inexperienced but enthusiastic "people" and "flair" coach who seriously needed the "people coach" mentor we could not afford. But I never sought to pass detailed comment on his coaching skills, or how he applied them, for the simple reason that - as I regularly said - there are others far more qualified than me to judge. The area I trusted his judgment on was on signings - as indeed it seemed did the club. As history comes to be written, it starts to become more apparent that lack of money was not quite as crucial a limiting factor as it first seemed?



I backed the Orford scenario too, and I did not realise that Kearney was not a stand off in a million years. But I did not know one way or the other so trusted the club - which meant the coach. In fairness, some on here pointed out about Kearney right from the start - brilliant FB but less effective elsewhere. And in fairness - they have been proved totally and utterly correct, and can hold their heads high on this issue.

Havn't seen much of the Bulls this season, wasn,t expecting such a bad performance in defence from your team made even worse with the french man with the whistle. Looks as though you will be having a transitional season next year which Mick Potter is good at.

Trouble is mate, we've been having a "transitional" season every year for a while now...

I seem to recall quite a few people stating on here that Kearney was a fullback, and had been for the majority of his NRL playing career.



He's not a natural 6, but he has the pace and agility to make a much better go of it than sykes ever could.



I would be reasonably happy for Kearney to fill the stand off position until Southernwood is ready for the first team.



I'm also still holding onto a faint slither of hope that we're after Greenshields to take over at fullback.

Fair points. I'm not gonna argue with it.



I understand with have financial concerns, but still feel we have under performed and made poor signings, when better players of i can only guess equal value were available.



I wonder if the Bulls had any money to go for a more experienced coach when Nobby left.

Underperformed? For sure. Irrefutable argument. Indeed, serious understatement.



Poor signings? The fact that we are yet again restructuring with yet again a high player turnover can only suggest some poor decisions - for whatever reasons.



Money for more experienced coach? The big question, that, and one of the main reasons why I have been going on (and on and on...) about the financial realities.



Things were indeed extremely tight around then (I'm not just guessing there either) , and there seemed to be a lot of destabilising whispers going round - some maybe from much closer to home than should have been - that would surely have put off potential applicants. Also, though, do you remember what Noby said about Macca at his last forum? When Macca had been approached by Hull? I wrote it down someplace, but the gist was that Noby had told Macca it would be very much in his interest to stick with Bradford. At that point I am sure Nobby knew he would be going, so it very much came across to me at the time that he was annointing his chosen (or at least expected) successor. People who say it all went wrong post-Nobby might want to reflect on that? So could we have secured the services of a more experienced coach? I always suspected we would have badly struggled. Some single-agenda know-alls stated of course we could. The thing is, we will now never know.