Safe pair? Well hopefully the some of those high calibre applicants from both sides of the world will reapply!!!

Names I’d like the club to at least inquire about:

Danny Ward (wants to coach, interviewed for Cas)

Lee Radford (I know he’s just got an NRL gig but worth an ask).

Brian McDermott (again, long shot)

Paul Anderson (maybe he’d take it alongside his England duties)

Richard Marshall (knows the Championship well, youngish, would he leave Wire?)

James Ford (at the shambles that's Wakey would he come to us)

People who the club will interview:

Lee Greenwood
Leigh Beattie

Someone mentioned Justin Morgan to me. I’ve not heard that name in a while. What’s he doing these days?

Just pay Danny Ward whatever he wants to come and sort this rabble out.

This. Although some of the names are nice, a lot have been out of the game for a decade.

Wards the stand out for me. Whether he would come is another matter, but SL opportunities look extremely limited, particularly in the immediate future. We've invested well in the squad, now invest in the coach.

I'd say that working for Nigel isn't exactly a major draw for an aspiring coach. I wonder how much say MD really had when it came to recruitment with Nigel, the CEO and Nobby all weighing in?

The business model of relying on loanees and dual reg doesn't breed consistency or team spirit either.

Previous recruitment has looked OK on paper but we seem to have signed a few injury prone players and when they're out of the side we seriously lack leadership.

If anyone wants to spam Danny on his twitter and beg him to come sort this mess out... https://twitter.com/D_Wardy17

If anyone wants to spam Danny on his twitter and beg him to come sort this mess out... https://twitter.com/D_Wardy17

Ill throw some other names in to the mix that have been involved in the game but havnt been metioned yet for the sake of it.

Dennis Betts
Simon Finnegan
John Duffy
Disco

Morrison

just pray greenwood doesn't string 2 wins together, he'll end up the new cheap option

Not until they have scoured the world for the best option though.

Danny Ward would be my pick if we're playing fantasy rugby. That would be an appointment that would offer some hope and a coach I'd trust to improve the players we already have in the short term. Whether he would risk his reputation by coming to Bradford.. I'm not sure.

Somebody like Leon or Morrison would be popular amongst fans but I'm not convinced either are what we need.

But then I don't suppose there is a queue of top coaches banging down the door to Nigels office.

I don't think Danny Ward is entirely beyond us.

He's had one coaching gig where he overachieved. Nothing since, even though he went for the Leeds job last year and the Cas job this year, neither of which he got.

He's been out of the game since 2021. Where is he going to get a better job than us? Unless he hangs on for Wakefield, but that will probably go to James Ford.

He wouldn't be the cheap option - but I think he'd go down well with the supporters. He's proven at working with a small budget, getting the best out of a team, he's good with the media etc

Come on, Nigel. Do it!

Well after the merry dance the club led us all on last time around, I'm not getting my hopes up I'm afraid.

Probably end up with Jimmy Lowes again!

Looks like we're not the only club needing a new coach. Lingard heading to Cas as assistant from next season! Didn't see that one coming.
It says all you need to know about the state of the championship when a head coach would rather go and be an assistant in SL.

Combining both roles until the end of the season, then Mark Moxon taking over at Batley.

Wish we'd got Lingard a year ago.

https://www.totalrl.com/ex-leeds-rhinos ... bulls-job/

https://www.totalrl.com/ex-leeds-rhinos ... bulls-job/

That could be a good appointment. Someone not hampered by history or cares a jot about the 90s/00s

And herein lies the problem, he also has little coaching experience, has none in the UK and has never set foot near the championship as a coach, player, water carrier or anything. So if it doesn’t work will he be described as a cheap option with little experience?

I agree but whatever we think, we'll be going for the cheap option. MD was the cheap option with most of those boxes ticked.

We've kind of done it before and that coaches stats were

P W D L %
2016–17 Bradford Bulls 20 14 0 6 70

Yes he has a brainfart in the playoffs but at least we made it to them? I think we'd kill for that kind of win/loss ratio now let alone making the play offs.

And we had a similar prima donna halfback he controlled and got the best out of.

Maybe Adamson could do something similar?

Failing that lets get Toovey back

. I'd loved to have seen his reaction to some of these drubbings... He'd have been that incandescent he'd be visible from the Internation Space Station

A coach can only do so much. Whoever comes in now is inheriting a squad that is imbalanced, with a few decent players but also a lot of dross. Two poor halfbacks, no depth in the backline whatsoever, a poor set of props and most of our budget likely tied up in three ex-super league players who between them have already missed an alarmingly large number of games.

This season is a write off already, even if we do manage to sneak into the playoffs. Get someone decent in now and start planning for 2024 as a priority.

Adamson would have a network into players from down under that could come in useful. I think a new broom would be a good thing. He's an uncompromising character which might put noses out of joint and I think Nigel will want someone that he can control and who won't rock the boat. In summary I can't see it happening.

According to that article [i"The former forward made 72 appearances for the Rhinos between 2002 and 2024,"[/i

He's doing well for a 50 year old. Still making appearances for Leeds in the future too!

I’ll give you imbalanced- reading between the lines, Patten was meant to leave in the off-season and his wage was meant to go to the PNG centre/wing. But that didn’t happen.

I would change what you’ve said to - 4 halfbacks, 2 of which are poor as a half back pairing. The preferred half back pairing has managed about 15 minutes so far. I accept we’ve a thin back line and instead of a poor set of props I would say an injured set of first choice props leaving us with the unenviable choice of putting in loanees or the reserve props.