Eamon O'Carroll Leaves Bradford

[M j M]

Oh God. Never go back. It rarely works and how long since Noble was involved as a coach? You may as well get the ghost of Peter Fox to coach for how badly this is likely to go.

[Archie Gordon]

Will it keep him off the BBC? I ask on behalf of our viewers at home.

[Simon Hall]

Great to see Bradford still living in the past. Maybe see if they can go into partnership with Beamish or something.

[Bulls2487]

He has done the majority of recruitment last 2 years and involved with training and match day.

It's good to appointment someone from within the club. I am happy with the appointment

[Mumby Magic]

6 minutes ago, Bulls2487 said:

He has done the majority of recruitment last 2 years and involved with training and match day.

It's good to appointment someone from within the club. I am happy with the appointment

Some of it makes sense. I'm a massive fan of promoting from within. He knows the club etc. But is it something like 15 years since he last coached? Is he currently being paid for his role at the club.

[TrueBull]

He’s been coaching for the last 2years. Basically he’s been the forwards coach under EoC, not missed a session as far as I know

[Spidey]

Fancy making a commentator head coach

[Dullish Mood]

Bully Bully……mad rush now on foam fingers!

[RigbyLuger]

When's Robbie coming back?

[Bull Mania]

I think it makes sense. If he'd genuinely been out of the game, then the above comments are fair. But he's been heavily involved in the coaching where we have finished third for the last two years. 

We don't need to rebuild and EOC leaving left the risk of a new coach coming in and ripping everything up which we didn't need. We have continuity with this. 

Happily revisit this thread in 12 months time as reckon a few comments will have egg on their face! 

[Impartial Observer]

4 hours ago, Simon Hall said:

Great to see Bradford still living in the past. Maybe see if they can go into partnership with Beamish or something.

And change their name to Northern 

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Judging on the things Noble says during his BBC commentaries ..........

 

Good luck to Bradford 

[Dullish Mood]

2 hours ago, Bull Mania said:

I think it makes sense. If he'd genuinely been out of the game, then the above comments are fair. But he's been heavily involved in the coaching where we have finished third for the last two years. 

We don't need to rebuild and EOC leaving left the risk of a new coach coming in and ripping everything up which we didn't need. We have continuity with this. 

Happily revisit this thread in 12 months time as reckon a few comments will have egg on their face! 

Wow.

[Mumby Magic]

Noble officially Coach.

[Dullish Mood]

1 minute ago, Mumby Magic said:

Noble officially Coach.

Again…..just wow.

[The Blues Ox]

Makes sense for noble to take over, probably get decent money and has a quality squad that realistically should be top 2, if not topping the league, and money available to bring players in. I think they could have done better as there would have been a lot of interest but maybe Nobby putting his hand up forced their hand a little bit.

[TrueBull]

He may not want/need a salary. Might just want expenses and maybe a bonus if Bulls get into SL. He’s been volunteering the last 18months I think. 

[The Phantom Horseman]

Was quite funny how the Bulls were a minute or 2 late posting this with what was presumably a 5.00 embargo and the Game Caller went ahead and tweeted it anyway before the official Bulls site tweeted it...

[LeeF]

29 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Was quite funny how the Bulls were a minute or 2 late posting this with what was presumably a 5.00 embargo and the Game Caller went ahead and tweeted it anyway before the official Bulls site tweeted it...

Good old Mick.
 

He was claiming that they had 20 serious applicants earlier this week. They must have been really poor applicants. Mind you he said that the Bulls had a nailed on 13.5 IMG points. 

[Phil W]

Applications from all over the world and they find him just down the corridor. It's like an RFL recruitment process.

[daz39]

But can he carry heavy buckets?

[Bulls2487]

My thinking on this is the Bulls will have a new coach for 2026 and they will now spend the next 12 months looking. Noble is heavily involved with recruitment and coaching so if gives us some continuity for 2025 and we don't have to rush to appoint someone with no connection to the club.

[Expatknight]

14 hours ago, Dullish Mood said:

Again…..just wow.

The game has moved on considerably since he last held a head coaches role, you just have to listen to the commentaries that he and the other yesterdays man, Jonathan Davies, do to see that. They were ‘of their day’ and nobody can argue that then they were the top of the tree, but times move on. Bradford should have gone for someone who is relevant to the modern game, not hark to the past, it rarely, if ever, works.

[The Masked Poster]

14 hours ago, daz39 said:

But can he carry heavy buckets?

 Congratulations. You've made this joke in every Bradford thread. Yet not about Halifax or Haven nor others. Maybe you protest too much? 

[AB Knight]

 

On 30/10/2024 at 11:38, Mumby Magic said:

Some of it makes sense. I'm a massive fan of promoting from within. He knows the club etc. But is it something like 15 years since he last coached? Is he currently being paid for his role at the club.

It’s been more than 10 years since his last head coach role (April 2014 is when he stepped down from being head coach for Moneybags Marwan).