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Now is it just me or is anyone else also struggling to think what was successful about the Summer at the Stoop project? As I recall we lost every game and the crowds got worse and worse for each one. At least we can console ourselves that we won't have a re-run of the successful George Sampson project.

This sounds like another piece of spin, such as “we only sign quality players” line and the ridiculous end of season review "written" by Brian McDermott.

Blanchard then adds that our support is “in many ways long-suffering”. I'm struggling to think of the ways in which we are not “long-suffering”. Our last successful season climaxed standing on the terraces at Odsal on a cold Friday autumnal evening cheering on the team as Bradford piled on nearly 50 points and put us out of the play offs in the first round. In the four years since we haven't made the play offs or a even a cup semi final, let alone a final.

Now there's obviously the possibility he was mis-quoted or mis-understood, but this quote strikes me as being far to pessimistic:

Why as we've been able to make high profile signings in the past. The cap is a flat rate for all clubs, so we should be aiming to spend it all. Never is for an awful long time and it makes me question the long term ambition.

To be fair to him, I would have expected most of those attendances to start with a 2. They weren't as bad as they might have been (but then, I was lucky enough to miss all of them!).

we don't have the cash to make big name signings....and we won't until we get bigger crowds. The Summer thingy worked, in that we got bigger gates than we would have expected against the opposition. Give him a chance....he has a full off season to plan for 2010.....then he can be judged

AND reached media outlets we hadnt before .

Any ideas who Skolars will be up against in the Double Header? Will it be Leigh?

Why Leigh?

Cracking idea.....wish I had posted it a while back...I might even have gone as far as to mock up a poster for it....wait a minute

Haven't you gone yet?

in Brunei.........waiting for the next leg of the journey........The Sultan of this place owns a big mansion behind SKY HQ......might be worth inviting him down next time he's in town