I have only seen one poor performance this year and that was against St Helens. At this moment in time we shouldn't be discussing who should be the next Bulls' coach!

why is anyone even talking about a new coach or still providing poor performances, this time last season i believe we were 10th or 11th, the performances were very poor and yes i agree the only really bad performance this season has come in the game against Saints, people need to to believe in the coach and this team's ability more, i dont expect trophies but we are improving and under the current circumstances we are doing are good job, competing and easily beating teams who are spending much more on the cap than us!

Granted we are doing much better this season but I still have my doubts on McNamara

The games against Quins, Salford and Crusaders were shocking too.

Shocking is too strong a word. In all those games we had some flashes of good play. More importantly for me we showed determination and steel in protecting our line even when things were going against us.



Steve Mac still has a lot to prove for me but I am actually looking forward to watching the matches this season.

I think people are too quick to get carried away with a situation.



In prior years, we lose a few games or a player makes a few mistakes and we are quick to come on here and demand they be sacked or dropped.



Likewise, now we have had a FEW decent results, we have people demanding Macca is given another contract.



Should Macca not get the England job, the bulls management team have plenty of time to wait until the back end of the season, assess the situation then before deciding to renew his contract.



A 3 or 4 year contract is a long time...............

you could ask his biggest critic except he doesnt seem to post unless we lose when he crawls out of the woodwork and tries to turn every thread into a sack macca one.

Spot on we are doing well at the moment but it's not a case of "has he done enough to stay?" let's see what happens. For now Macca is the coach and they are playing well.

We won those three matches without playing well in them. That's not a reason to complain. That's the sign of a good team if they pick up points even when they aren't playing well.

I've heard Lee St Hilaire is having more input nowadays, and is the real force behind the improved results.

I think we're significantly improved this year and a lot of that has to do with the Manly mafia and Brett Kearney - credit to Macca for those signings and the improved fitness levels derived by bringing in a fresh face on that front.



However, over the course of the 3/4 years Macca has been in place we haven't seen anywhere near the improvement in results that has occurred due to coaching at Wire, Wigan (early days I know) or Hudds in comparatively short time frames. Partly this is because we don't have the luxuries these clubs enjoy in terms of finance/staffing etc, and some of it may be due to Macca learning on the job and having to replace dysfunctional systems with proper youth development etc etc. This season gives some measure of hope up to now, but it's not entirely convincing - we have looked poorly organised in some of games that we have won, but then at times we have also looked quite brilliant - first 20 against Leeds. This is not too different from last year and previous years, and as has been said the margins of victory are quite small in RL now, however, the shake up in playing staff has also removed certain people who seemed unhappy and possibly disruptive at the club and this will no doubt make a difference where margins of victory/defeat are narrow.



All in all, I think we're making progress, but I also think a lot of people stopped turning up because of a lack of faith in Macca and I think it's very doubtful (barring a distinct success - a final appearance for example), that they'll be back if we give him another contract. So I would hope he goes to the England job or Auz being able to claim to have seen out his contract, managed a difficult transition and put some good systems in place and we get someone from Auz/here who is capable of taking that forward and bringing some excitement/success/audience back to the club. A difficult ask I know but without the OSV, that's the only route to regaining some buzz and stemming the decline in the gate, and as Hudds and Wigan have proved there are young coaches out there capable of doing it.