Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:13 pm  

A terrible night at the office, started with the half-back selection.

Defence was at times shocking,it was like watching 2008/09.

So sad about Owen injury,hope he has a speedy recovery.

It means we are down to one 1st team winger(Wainwright),with T.M's team selections who knows what next weeks
backline will be

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:14 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

A terrible night at the office, started with the half-back selection.

Defence was at times shocking,it was like watching 2008/09.

So sad about Owen injury,hope he has a speedy recovery.

It means we are down to one 1st team winger(Wainwright),with T.M's team selections who knows what next weeks
backline will be

Sarge on one wing, Wainwright at loose forward and Shenton propping knowing Matterson

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:20 pm  

Can't understand why you didn't have a ball player at 6 tonight, surley Westerman, McGoldteeth or even Jimmy Evans would have been better options?

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:25 pm  

Bulls4Champs2010 wrote:

Can't understand why you didn't have a ball player at 6 tonight, surley Westerman, McGoldteeth or even Jimmy Evans would have been better options?

Any of the following would have made more sense to everybody but the wise one in charge of this club:

Owen
McGoldrick
Shenton
Evans
Hudson
Netherton
Westerman

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:32 pm  

Bulls4Champs2010 wrote:

Can't understand why you didn't have a ball player at 6 tonight, surley Westerman, McGoldteeth or even Jimmy Evans would have been better options?

Welcome to our world

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:00 am  

Not convinced all is as it seems with the Sherwin thing. Lots more to it in my opinion. The team looked totally different tonight and defensively we were woeful. I can accept Sherwins loss in attack affected things and Chase tried really hard. But Sherwins absence doesnt excuse the defence.

Just hope the official line on Sherwins absence is true and we dont need off field issues, but if it is, its one of the most baffling decisions ever. 6 months of no games then rested after 2? No chance.

Something fishy I fear.

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:15 am  

We just looked lost out there tonight. There was no heart, no commitment and no urgency. The defence took a definite step back from the opening rounds.

I think the team selection was poor and our interchanges didn't help. We had a distinct lack of a plan B and continued with the same tactics throughout the game even thought they clearly weren't working.

As for Bradford, I don't think they're much better than last season. They were still suffering from an embarassing defeat last week so an improved performance was inevitable; therefore we couldn't just rock up and claim the points as we tried to do.

I don't think they have what it takes to compete with the likes of Leeds, Saints, Warrington and Wigan; and to be brutally honest their style of play still bores the hell out of me.

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:31 am  

Shifty wrote on Facebook last night that he wasn't being rested and it annoyed him that they were saying he was. He has a slight injury but will be back next week apparently.

Defence was absolutely woeful, Alibert seems to have an inability to call a forward pass!! and IMHO Braford weren't great, but neither were the conditions.

Unfortunate for Richie, i just hope we don't have more dumb selections over the coming weeks now that he is injured

Bad night at the office, lets just put it behind us and concentrate on next week

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:01 am  

Bonzo wrote:

and to be brutally honest their style of play still bores the hell out of me.

It was more entertaining than Cas last night that's for certain.

And IMO you're being a little unfair to the Bulls, I thought some of the tries were very skillful and I certainly enjoyed them!

Re: Away to Bradford on Friday : Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:41 am  

1 to 17 Bradford beat us last night.

I'm not one for knocking our players or coaching staff, but I think they all need to look at their performance last night and question themselves. Team selection was questionable, tackling was woeful, we seemed to lack ideas with the ball in hand and our kicking wasn't the best.

But last night is over with and I'm sure the team will be working hard now to put right last nights wrongs. I for one am looking forward to positive response similar to Bradford's response last night.