Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:32 pm  

debaser wrote:

We have to win games like this. Cas/Wakefield/Widnes etc at home. We have to. And we didn't. Wakefield away in front of the sky cameras next. They have a point to prove. Sammut will have a point to prove. It doesn't look good.

This is where we fell down last Season, saved our best performances for the big Teams but still lost. Then lose to the Teams around and below us. All for nothing. This Season we need to target the Teams we need beat, play tactically something we've never mastered.

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:33 pm  

Think we're down.

Sorry but I'm unhappy with cummins at the moment. Gale was $h1t3 yet again!!!!! 6-0 and we have a set of 6 in Cas's 20m And he kicks on the full. I've said it for two seasons he cannot control a game, his passing is poor and he has no creativity! Yet we give him a long term contract to build the team around him! Tell
Me Franny were you excited about the possibilities of where the team can go building the team around that.

Fed up of seeing the same players pathetic excuses at tackles, Addy, Olbisons, they are back rowers who got sat on their back sides by Liam Finn!!! Do they know how to bend their backs!!! Yet they stay on for 80 minutes while te only player who knows how to bend his back gets taken off!

All this guff about us been fitter, stronger, we were shot after 60 mins. 3 times we took the lead. We drop the ball straight from kick off, ten we do the same again!!! Chev Walker who Franny gave a contract for his experience tries passing to his team mate 1m from the defensive line.

The 3 occasions we took the lead where was Mr Gale to take the game by the scruff of the neck?

We'll be embarrased Thursday. The fans will be taunted,
Sammut will rip us to bits.

Oh and how depressing was odsal today? Terracing dirty. All advertising ripped out to leave just a skeleton,and then walking a out of the exit was a pile of mud and crap that I had to walk through.

Sad, sad day and I see no way out.

Not even the bright prospect of seeing Gale in a bulls shirt excites me mr Cummins!!

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:35 pm  

BullCharge wrote:

If we lose on Thursday we are in massive trouble. The only team I can see us beating is London. The advantage of having Sammut is that he can hurt any team in the league, so Wakefield will always have a chance. Us on the other hand...

I think it's a given that we are already in massive trouble! Question is can we do anything about it?

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:37 pm  

Spirit and effort seems in no doubt.

We need some bloody money. And stability off the field. Fast.

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:40 pm  

The game was lost in the forwards. Cas gained far too many yards after first contact in the tackle. No one was going for the legs so they were allowed to keep driving forward. Scruton did his best but was bound to run out of gas. Gaskell looked good but another forward is needed. Keith Mason would do a job.

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:47 pm  

RatedRKO wrote:

The game was lost in the forwards. Cas gained far too many yards after first contact in the tackle. No one was going for the legs so they were allowed to keep driving forward. Scruton did his best but was bound to run out of gas. Gaskell looked good but another forward is needed. Keith Mason would do a job.

Couldn't agree more. We need a Prop and some size in that pack ASAP otherwise we really are going to struggle this year. Ideally I'd like to see at least two recruits to that pack to give our halfbacks and outside backs a chance to compete. Mason was on radio Leeds today and reckoned he had received a phone call a couple of days ago from a club and he was hopeful of knowing whether he would have a club within the week. I got the impression he had an agreement already in place.

Disappointing to see us still self destructing and giving the opposition a leg up with our errors and ill discipline. I thought we needed 4 points from our opening 3 games so the pressure is on for Thursday night. An addition to the pack would be a huge lift going into another crucial match.

Plenty of spirit, but we need some size, quality and experience.

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:53 pm  

We played a lot of 'dumb' rugby today. We let Castleford off the hook big time and they steamrolled us. We got bullied by their pack. Not good enough today.

Roll on Thursday.

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:53 pm  

I think your all being to negative . Yes we made some very silly errors but we had two trys turned down and one we should have had when they pulled us back going for the ball . I think the ref made some bad calls . Also did you guys not see purtell lose the ball 3 times and not jump for a ball in the air forcing bk to run up which caused a knock on.

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:56 pm  

I certainly wouldn't fault us for effort today - and given that it was a concern that recent events would drain morale, that isn't something that I took for granted as I arrived today.

Crucial mistakes at crucial times cost us. Inability to settle the game when we got in front, not once - but twice.

And, as others have commented, a lack of fitness was apparent. You could see the energy levels drop at 60 minutes - falling off tackles, not getting back into the defensive line etc.

Worrying that we have lost one of the games we needed to target a win, and with the possible points deduction still to work itself out....

Re: Bulls v Cas post game chat : Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:02 pm  

I didn't think Gale was that bad today. the forwards looked very tired, to me, only Scruton made any real impact. New props needed, how long until Mexico arrives? gaskell started very quiet but his influence did get better in the second half.

We need Ferguson fit for Thursday!