a retrograde step bringing Noble back.



His signings at wigan have been poor, done nothing to bring kids through and boring rugby. What does he offer to help Bradford now

Tomkins,tomkins, goulding, ainscough, prescott, o carroll, mcilorumat wigan, plus the load he brought thru at bulls, he brings more kids thru than macca.

He always gets cheered when we go to wigan or he comes to bradford, I`d have him back like a shot.

I can't see this happening, although he did turn Wigan around after the Millward period.

What a silly statement considering Brian Noble actually achieved more than both of those excellent previous coaches put together. I bet you sure as hell wasn't saying that when he was parading the trophies he won around town, were you?

Noble took over a team built on firm foundations and was able to use that to usher in a period of success. Unfortunantly McNamara did not and has been, so far, unable to replicate the success that Bradford fans have gotten used to.



However, I do think that new foundations are being laid but it may be some years and a different head coach who will benifit from the fruit of that labour

[uIf[/u it happened, I would see it in a similar light to Peter Fox's second stint. He'd probably dig us out of a hole initially and bring back confidence that's so badly lacking now in the medium term. Longer term, I have my doubts if he could take us forward (as was the case with Fox). Though, as you suggest, it depends whether Director of Rugby [umeans[/u "Director of Rugby", or whether it means "we're getting a new head coach, but don't want to admit it or to brand the old one a failure".

On the other hand Noble has years of top level coaching experience, a long history with the club and a relationship with MacNamara. It's fairly clear that MacNamara wasn't expected to take over the head coach role so early and maybe going back to being able focus more on coaching with an experienced mentor to call on would help him develop as well.



they could also take it in turns to provide the weeks "why we didn't follow the game plan" quote.

Has anybody else noticed that after a poor defeat, Hood has come out and told us we'll turn it around, Macca can do the job etc, but he hasn't this time?



Fits in perfectly in terms of timing of this rumour

If he had done then the fans would just have said that we'd heard it all before and not to bother. Can't win really

McNamara took over 6 months early than planned that's all.

But was that with Noble moving into a director of rugby role where he was available as a resource?

But you didn't say that you said McNamara wasn't expected to tak the job so soon .