Rafa Benitez is out of work at the moment, let us beat you and we'll let you have him.
However,
beat us and we will send you Lee Saint Helaire. (evil we are)...

Not going to happen. We are the go-to club for teams wishing to kick start their season. If a team is in a bad run and need a victory then we will generously oblige.

At this moment in time this Leeds team is about as abject as it has been at anytime in the last ten years , you will never have a better chance than Thursday to tonk them , the Bulls by plenty I reckon .

Another one who has not seen us play then.

See posts on the Saints forum from 12 months ago for the reason for your teams problems.

Mick Potter, Nice guy, Crap Coach.

Look on the bright side, Leeds are shocking at the moment too. Best of luck for Thursday.

Yet MP still managed to get Saints to finish in the top 2 and the GF two years in a row. The 2009 GF could have easily gone the other way and who knows what would have happened if Leon had been available last year? I think the Saints fans expected far too much from Potter, and treated him unfairly because he didn't buy into the Saints flamboyant 'entertainers' ethos. Just look at Leeds now to see the result of that kind of mind-set, and also Millward's efforts with Wigan. Potter IMO did a great job in blooding younger players for Saints, just a shame that Eastmond is turning his back on RL. I'd have Potter at Leeds in a heartbeat. Don't underestimate the size of the job he has with Bradford - the scale of changes in playing personnel plus the residual mindset from years under McNamara can't be brushed aside overnight.

Yeah Exeter Rhino I think some Bulls fans don't realise how lucky we are to have Potter in charge. Players and coach had a nightmare on Saturday, no doubt about it, but he has the credentials to suggest he's going to turn it around. He hasn't won a major trophy yet but as you say he's done a lot more for Saints than he's been given credit, and lets not forget the '08 third place finish with unfancied Catalans.

Also, I wonder how much influence he had in some of the signings and retentions for this year. Some of them have been questionable to say the least, others just seem to have been snapped up because they were avalible. Hope I'm proved wrong by all of them, they're wearing our colours after all.

Course we need to do 100x better than Saturday but it isn't time to give up on the players or coach just yet.

Didn't saints lose 52-22 last year at Salford?? Exeter makes some very good points, so does toonbull.

I love to read your comments Exeter. Always make a lot of sense

Potter's tactics obviously are not working but at the same time this Bradford side is very poor. Players such as Ainscough, Raynor, Walker, Platt and Sibbit should never be near a Bradford side. I miss the old Bradford now

You're being too harsh on Ainy and Platt. Both have justified their worth in a Bradford shirt this year (and last in reference to Platt) and formed a good partnership on our right edge.

I agree. We need platt back asap. Ainy seemed to play better with platt on his inside.

Platt is back on Thursday.

Are you sure? Platt has said on his twitter account that he is unable to confirm whether he will be fit or not for the leeds game.

I'm going on Connor's twitter feed. The squad should be up shortly anyway, I'll no doubt look a fool.

what is connor's twitter?

I hope not, not to save your blushes but we really need Platt back on the pitch.

@MurphyonBulls

thanks

found him. Reading his comments it seems he wants to see Kearney back in the halves and Briggs dropped. I don't think thats a bad shout against Leeds really. Kearney has been excellent so far this season despite not being a recognised 6. Even though Briggs played well in patches at MM I think his confidence will be low after Saturday. But the problem is...when does Potter then decide to give him his chance? There are no easy games for us this year.

My only worry about Thursday is our inability to play for the full 80mins. In fact, apart from Cas (and even then we had our slow patches), we have dropped off for at least 20mins in every game this year.

I just want to see a solid performance.

I know this may get some people on my back, but I think Whitehead needs dropping too. He is having a poor season so far, making too many errors and missing too many tackles.

i honesty think the lads will turn up for this game and play there hearts out they know themselves it means so much the them , the fans , and the whole club ..
we are never going to get a better chance of beating the whino's who look themselves to be on there a**e ....
finger's crossed that platty , langers , and paddy all back for thurs !! imo we sure need them (is langers near recovery ?)
platty & ainy have played well together as i think herbi & bk also doing well...
look im no coach but would love to see shad back in his most natural position at full back and bring bk back into halfs ...
let's get behind the boy's and hope they give us something to cheer about ...

He had another shoulder op yesterday and is out for 4 weeks according to Connor Murphy's twitter feed.

When does the squad come out?

And tbh if they don't play with Pride and Passion in a derby against Leeds then obviously they are only here for the paycheck.

I read that as being tactics ie not confirming until the last minute but could easily be wrong

The squads already out, check the Bradford Bulls v Leeds Rhinos thread. No Sykes or Briggs

If we lose can you imagine it on the T&A site...

...bring back Paul Sykes!