Re: Game thread : Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:59 pm  

Not reading the whole thread, largely because I can't be bothered. But I've seen some Bulls fans on Twitter suggesting there were more Bradford fans than there were Huddersfield. Can I just point out what a total load of toss that is. I was sat a little further to the left of the "rabble" fans, nearer the 30m line. That's about the point where the Bulls fans ended and the Hudds fans started. In fact, there were more Hudds around me than Bulls.

I would say about 25% Bradford would be about right. Still a good effort from both sets of fans I think and good to see a half decent crowd (for a friendly) turning out for a testimonial.

[Bullseye]

Re: Game thread : Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:15 pm  

Enough of this rubbish about the bloody crowd.

What did we think of the team's performance?

Re: Game thread : Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:28 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Enough of this rubbish about the bloody crowd.

What did we think of the team's performance?

Spirited but lacking experience and chemistry is the best way I'd describe it.

Ross Peltier deservedly Man of Match. Plus I think he did more minutes in one game than Lauaki did in a season.

Re: Game thread : Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:24 pm  

Pisspoor performance by a team that's been together since late Friday afternoon. They were like a bunch of strangers.

Re: Game thread : Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:28 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

Pisspoor performance by a team that's been together since late Friday afternoon. They were like a bunch of strangers.

Yes but Bradford were OK

Re: Game thread : Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:35 pm  

I saw the team sheet on Twitter in the car on the way there and got very worried we were off to watch an absolute thrashing.

What followed was a a nice surprise and filled me with optimism for the season.

Peltier, Magrin, Roche were very impressive in the forwards. Kirk was also very good in the first half and did some big minutes.

Campbell was the best surprise of the day for me. I was never impressed with him in his few appearances last season but today he was very lively in attack and made a few nice breaks. He was pretty solid in defence and made a very good last line of defence tackle in the first half. Given a run in the team he could prove to be a good full back for the level we are at.

Of the young lads Bentley looked solid, Butterworth and Pickersgill (was it him playing in the halves with Keyes?) were also great.

Ross Oakes has impressed me every time I've seen him so far. Makes all the right decisions in defence, seems very strong and is also pretty dangerous in attack. Him and Ryan could form a good centre/wing partnership given some time together.

Agree with some of the previous posts that we need one or two more seasoned campaigners in the pack as the young lads wont be able to do that every week. Hope Joseph signs and one or two others.

Pryce and Keyes is going to be a good partnership I think.

Re: Game thread : Mon Jan 23, 2017 6:36 am  

Did Leon not play?

Re: Game thread : Mon Jan 23, 2017 7:51 am  

Smack him Jimmy wrote:

Did Leon not play?

No, not sure why.

Re: Game thread : Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:12 am  

RickyF1 wrote:

No, not sure why.

Knee injury mentioned in match report. Hopefully just a niggle

Re: Game thread : Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:41 am  

I think Oakes could be in for a big season. He looked classy in the u19s games I saw last year and he did well in the first team games he played in at the back end of last season as well.

Hoping for news on Joseph and Foster this week. We really need those two to stay.