Right, most of the people are agreeing that he should go, so here's the poll. Anybody choosing no, i'd love to hear your reasoning behind it.

I voted NO.


But i am a Giants fan

This may as well be "Do you support Bradford?". It would get the same result I feel....

Don't ruin this poll

As a RL fan, even you must want to see idiots like him out of our sport?

I'm not a Bradford fan, but based on pure common sense and logic I've voted "Yes". Macnamara has turned Bradford into an embarrassment, and every week he stays in the job, your reputation is going to get worse and worse, making it harder and harder to entice top players. He has to go.

Another day, another defeat, another Should Macnamara go poll.

It's Groundhog Day.

But what's the point? Macca is going nowhere is he? I think we all know that.

Ask on eof your mods to remove my vote.

However i do feel it is a rather loaded question as i would expect even Maccas wife to want him replaced..


What i do feel however is that you need some perspective and need to be looking at root and branch reform of the WHOLE club.

Aussie imports are going to be rare and far between. Criminal records and stringent working rules have seen to that. The teams who will do well are those who have got good academies and can then top them up with good imports either British or foreign. You have an ageing , injury prone team who have not been able to replace like with like with the players you have lost. None of that is Maccas fault.


The situation that Bradford are in now would not be much different if you had steve Volkes as coach.

As fans you need to regroup and get behind YOUR team and let the owners, chairman etc get around to sorting the club out. None of that is going to be solved with getting rid of Macca

Who's the other no voter then? Hudd's or Rhino fan?

I don't think thats true really. Two "older" players does not make an aging team. Averages anyone? I might be wrong but I don't think we are the oldest squad in SL by any means.

Now the injury prone bit I'm not going to argue with...

average age of our squad is 23. Including players like Olbison, Donaldson etc. (the ones with squad numbers.) Without these its around 26/27.

His time was up long ago.

If we want Macca to go then we should stop asking for him to be sacked and go after Hood. It has long been recognised in football that the manager is the safety buffer for the chairman. As long as the coacj/manager is getting the flak the chairman is happy but start complaining about the chairman and he will sack the coack to show how strong and determined he is.
So.......
HOOD MUST GO
HOOD MUST GO
HOOD MUST GO

I said No as we could mathematically make the playoffs. The point at which it is mathematically impossible for us to make the play offs his time will be up for me. I hope it's not this season but the bulls making playoffs this season looks about as likely as Jordan and Peter Andre getting divorced in a civilised and dignified private hearing.

Fancy buying him out?

Unfortunately I don't have the money. Do you want to ask him to buy my season ticket off of me?

The sad thing is some people actually think this.

By the time next years season tickets sales figures are announced I bet you have.

Exactly. I'm sure there'd be thousands of people lining up to be chairman of a club on the slide, no?

I'm sorry I've upset so many people. The Chairman's great, the coach is superb, why do the rest of SL not understand this and let us win.

The point is, no-one was saying the chairman was great, bad, average or whatever. If Hood went who would take control of the club and sustain it?

Peter Hood has been very clear on making the club self sustainable and not having a board of directors or individual having to support it financially.
The implication behind wanting to replace Mr Hood is that he's holding the first team back with this penny pinching/financially responsible (delete as per prejudice) attitude (look at the number of comments about MacNamara being the cheap option and the number of times the cost of sacking him is brought up). So a serious question for any one wanting Hood replaced is would you like your club to be dependant on the whims of a principal investor?

If you think he's right in making the club self sustaining clearly a important part of his plan, and one of the criteria he's going to apply to any appointment, is does any new coach agree with the long term development plan that aims to remove a reliance on imports (star signing only with the bulk of the squad home grown) which is likely to be a more efficient use of the salary (both cap and available monies) but take much longer.
MacNamara has clearly brought into this and this will only strengthen his position.

If anybody wants to read my original post with regards to getting rid of Mr Hood you will see that it is not aimed at getting rid of Hood, it is simply a device to get rid of Macca.

But what if Hood decided it wasn't worth the effort and did go? After all he does all this for no reward.

Unlike head coaches there aren't a posse of club chairman hanging around wanting to appply for the job.

I'm sure Hood would be happy to hand over the reigns to someone who came in wanting to by him out. Unfortunately we've never been able to attract anyone with any real cash to back the club in the boardroom. This goes back years.

I've said all along, despite what some may think, that the current squad of players is capable enough, but any skill, tenacity and will to win is being slowly strangled out of them by a sub-standard coach. He simply has to go.

How much is the club (shares) worth? Does Caisley still have a large interest? What is current turnover like? With a new ground what will future turnover be like?

This might be a good time for someone to buy in